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I remember when she broke up with me because she was tired of hiding. But she later confessed that she ended our relationship because she thought she was being ungrateful to Linda. And then I remember that she also entertained Mortimer during that period. Hell, I found him half-naked in her apartment.
I sigh. Maybe I’m only making a mountain out of a molehill. I might not be the father of her baby. But where does that leave me?
“Is it mine?” I ask tentatively.
Her head shoots up. “What?”
“I didn’t stutter.”
Her face turns a deep shade of red. “Are you kidding me right now? We’ve been having sex for weeks, and you dare to ask me if it’s yours?”
Stung by her words, I retort, “Not every week. If I remember correctly, there was a time when Brad Mortimer became your flavor of the week.” I shrug. “Who knows? He might have kicked the ball into your net and not me.”
She glares at me with disgust, and my chest tightens at my crass words. It registers in my brain that I’m not handling the situation well. I inhale and exhale softly and try again.
“Hailey.”
She takes a step back when I move forward to take her hand.
“Was that what you told Linda after fucking her for weeks in your office, too?”
“What?”
“Or is that what you’ll tell Miss Lawson when you’re tired of fucking her in your office? Or maybe you also told Susan, Jackie, and all the females working with you whom you’ve repeatedly fucked.”
A deep frown puckers my forehead. “What the hell are you talking about, Hailey?”
“Why didn’t you tell me Linda was your secretary before she became your lover, wife, and the mother of your child?”
Linda! My hand bulges into a fist. Linda must have gotten to her and told her lies about me. In her warped mind, Linda always believed, even to date, that I was sleeping with all the women in my office. I tried several times to explain otherwise, but she never believed me. But how did she find out about Hailey?
“Linda told you some lies about me, didn’t she?”
She scoffs. “Lies? I always thought she was the villain, but now I see you for what you truly are, and I can’t believe I was so foolish as to have an affair with you. You lied to me about Linda. What else have you been lying about?”
“I never lied to you about Linda!”
“You lied by omission!”
Angry with myself for not telling her Linda used to be my secretary and angrier with her for believing Linda’s lies, I retort, “Oh, suddenly, you and Linda are now best friends? Did she tell you how she hooked me into marrying her with pregnancy? Is that what this is all about? You, too, have intentionally gotten pregnant so that I’ll put a ring on your finger? And who’s to say the baby is mine? ”
She gasps, lifts her hand, and slaps me across my face.
CHAPTER23
HAILEY
I’m ashamed of resorting to violence, but I can’t just stand here and listen to him throw unfounded allegations at me. I’m not the manipulative slut he says I am, and for him to insinuate it breaks my heart. I haven’t even confirmed if I’m pregnant. It’s sickening to know that this is how he will react if the test is positive. I hope with everything in me that I don’t see those two red lines.
A muscle twitches in his chin, and he glares at me with a fiery intensity in his green eyes. I can’t believe this is the man I fell in love with. I doubted everything Linda told me, but his reaction tells me she told me the truth.
“Hailey!”
“How can you accuse me of trying to tie you down with pregnancy or sleeping with Brad? After everything we’ve been through, I didn’t expect such accusations from you. I told you before, not all women are like your ex-wife. You’re a despicable liar, and I never want to have anything to do with you again. I quit!”
“Hailey, I’m sorry,” he begins, but I’m no longer interested in listening to him. His words drove a deep knife into my heart. I brush past him to thrust open the door, but he stops me with a hand on my arm.
“If you don’t let me go this instant, I’ll start screaming until the floor security guard comes here. I’ll also falsely accuse you of assaulting me, so you’ll have a taste of your own medicine!” I yell at him, and he drops my hand like a hot plate.
