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Three weeks!
Hell, he’s known for longer since that’s when he had the test.
The secrecy makes sense now.
“How did you get this?” I stammer, hating how weak I sound.
“I went to his apartment, of course,” Jessa answers. “He’s spruced up the place, hasn’t he?” Her hands go to her chest. “We normally hang out at my place though. There’s more room.”
I grip the paper. “Stay the fuck away from my boyfriend.”
“Boyfriend for how much longer?”
I take a step toward her, nearly in her face. “I’d be a bigger bitch if your daughter wasn’t here.”
Ellie squeezes between us again, and we both stumble back.
“It’s okay,” Jessa says over Ellie’s shoulder. “It’s not like she’ll see you around much.”
“Jessa, stop!” Ellie yells.
Jessa doesn’t. “Where do you think he was the other night when he came home late?”
My face falls.
Jessa grins, knowing she hit a spot.
It was her perfume.
It was her scent he went to the shower to wash off.
It all makes sense.
I shove the paper in my bag and storm past her.
“Hey!” Jessa shouts behind me. “You can’t take that!”
Ellie is calling my name as I leave her apartment and sprint to my car.
* * *
I storminto the bar with the paternity test in my hand.
“Oh shit,” Liz yelps, standing next to Maliki at the bar.
Maliki’s eyes are wide, all the blood draining from his face, and he scrubs a hand over it.
“We need to talk,” I grind out.
He nods, and I lead the way to our apartment.
No,hisapartment.
An apartment he allowed Jessa to come into who knows how many times.
I shove the paper into his chest as soon as he shuts the door and faces me. “Care to explain this?”
He doesn’t bother looking at the paper as it floats to the floor.
