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I didn’t pay her any mind—my focus was still on the liar in front of me. “Either you answer my question, or you’ll be answering my lawyer, kid.”
“Your lawyer?” she exclaimed, appearing every bit the damsel in distress she was trying to portray. “What do you need to call your lawyer for?”
“For a daughter I didn’t know I fucking had!”
“Stop yelling at me!”
“In a second I’m going to be doing a lot more than yelling at you.”
Christian shoved me back, placing his sister behind him. “You’re going to have to go through me, motherfucker.”
I growled from deep within my chest, not backing down. His threat meant shit to me. “I’m only going to say this once, so you better fucking listen. If you think I won’t go through you or anyone else who is trying to stand in between me and my child, then you have no idea who you’re dealing with.”
“You can’t take her away from me!” Autumn shouted, shaking her head. “I swear to God, Julian, I’ll—”
“You’ll what? Keep more secrets? Play more games? Lie to me some more? Tell me, sweatheart, what will you do?”
“You have no right to be angry with me! You left me, remember?”
“Did you know you were pregnant at your brother’s wedding?”
She winced.
“Answer me. Did. You. Know?”
Taking a deep breath, she hesitantly nodded.
“I want to hear you say the words.”
“Julian,” her brother stated. “This isn’t helping—”
“Fuck you, Christian!” I pushed him, needing to take out my frustration. “You have the audacity to stand there and come for me, when you knew I had a daughter, and you couldn’t bother to pick up the damn phone and tell me?”
He jerked back. “I didn’t know she was your daughter—none of us did. She looks nothing like you. She’s Autumn to a T. Besides, Autumn told us it was a one-night stand, and no one knew you guys were fucking around up until a few days ago.”
“Your parents may have not known, I’ll give you that one, but you sure as shit were getting suspicious, so try again.”
Autumn stepped aside him to stand in front of me. “I’ve been telling you this since day one, and I’ll say it again. This is between you and me, it has nothing to do with my brother and family.”
“Is that right?”
“Yes.”
“So you kept the truth from all of us then?”
“What was I supposed to do, Julian? Tell them we were sneaking around and you got me pregnant and then took off like a bat out of Hell?”
“If you would have told me you were pregnant, I never would have left you, and you know it.”
“When was I supposed to tell you?” she scoffed out in disgust. “Before or after you told me you screwed someone else at Christian’s bachelor party? Or would you have rather I waited until after you told me I was nothing more than a fuck to you? Please tell me when I should have told you I was expecting your baby? Because I just don’t know.”
“You should have told me the second you found out.”
“I was going to tell you the night of the wedding. It’s why I went outside by myself. I knew you’d follow me. But you didn’t give me a chance before breaking my heart and then stomping all over it.”
“How long did you know?”
“I really don’t want to talk about this in front of my brother and his wife. Can you at least give me that?”
