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Even though Itold Sierra that Liz is covering my shift tonight, I haven’t asked my sister yet.
“Hey, can you cover for me tonight?” I ask Liz, walking into the bar.
Liz drops the clipboard she’s doing inventory with onto the bar. “Why?”
“Cohen and I are looking at new whiskey in the city. We won’t be gone long, just for the day.” And just like that, another lie slips from my lips so easily.
She shakes her head. “I call bullshit.”
“I call not bullshit.” I crack a smile in an attempt to lighten the mood. It doesn’t work.
“I know when you’re lying to me.”
Do I tell her?
“You had another woman call the bar the other day, acting shady, and there’s tension with you and Sierra.” She shakes her head, staring at me in near disgust. “Here I thought, she’d be the one playing you, yet it seems to be the other way around.”
I flinch at the truth in her words. “I’m not playing her.”
“What’s going on then?”
Here goes.
I start pacing. “Do you remember Jessa?”
“Bitch-face Jessa? Yes.”
I stop to face her. “I got her pregnant.”
She falls back a step, her back knocking into the shelves, and thankfully, nothing falls. “What do you mean, you got her pregnant?”
I shake my head, nerves rippling in my stomach. “Not recently. In the past, when we used to hook up. She came over a few weeks ago and broke the news. I have a daughter.”
“And you believe her?” she says with a laugh and a snort.
“I didn’t until I got a paternity test.”
“Holy shit.” She releases a hard breath. “Have you told Sierra?”
“Not yet,” I croak out.
She throws a towel at me, and I barely dodge it. I deserve to get hit though.
“You’re an idiot,” she snaps. “You can’t hide something like that from her. What would you do if it were the other way around?”
“I doubt Sierra will find out she has a secret baby she never knew about.”
“Shut up, dick. You know what I mean. This is a big deal. It changes your life and everything around it.”
I bow my head. “Trust me, I know.”
She walks around the table, slumps onto a stool, and gestures for me to do the same. “What are you going to do? Does she know you’re her dad?”
I hoist myself on the stool next to her and nod. “I met her the other day. It’s hard on the both of us. She’d thought another man was her father for years.”
Her hand flies to her chest. “Whoa, that’s messed up.” She pats my back with a stern look on her face. “You’d better tell Sierra. News travels fast in Blue Beech.”
Another person knows.
