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“Paige, please, let me explain.” I step up to her and grab her by the upper arms.
She slaps my hands away. “Don’t touch me!”
I take a deep breath, then say, “I didn’t know.”
Her eyebrows draw together. “You didn’t know you had a son with your ex-wife? What, are you claiming amnesia?”
“No, I am not. Felicity was pregnant when we got divorced but she didn’t tell me. She showed up on my doorstep a few weeks ago with TJ and announced to me that I was a father. I had no idea he existed before that.”
“Really?” She asks, her voice a fraction calmer.
“Yes. I swear that’s what happened.”
“Is this why you’ve been acting weird recently?”
“Yes, it is.”
“So why didn’t you just tell me? I mean, I asked you about it and you lied to my face.”
“Honestly, I didn’t tell you because I didn’t know how you would react.”
“Wow.” She throws her hands up. “It’s great to know what you really think of me. First, I am judgmental. Now, I’m some sort of monster who wouldn’t understand all this and would hold it against you.”
“That’s not it. That’s not it at all. It’s not that I didn’t think you could handle it, it’s just that it’s a lotto process and you had a lot going on with your mom. I was worried that you would think it was too much.”
“Please, don’t use my mother’s illness as an excuse for what you’ve done.”
“I swear, I’m not. In fact, I was coming back here to tell you.”
She laughs. “How stupid do you think I am? After you’ve been caught red-handed you expect me to believe that you were coming to confess?”
“Yes, I do expect you to believe it, because I have never lied to you. Not even once.”
“No? Then what do you call this? Because a lie of omission is just as bad as a lie. Maybe even worse.”
I feel a migraine starting to build behind my eyes. I massage my temples and close my eyes. “Paige, can you blame me considering how you’re reacting right now?”
“What did you just say to me?” She narrows her eyes.
“Yes, I fucked up, but your reaction is a bit much, don’t you think?”
“I’m sorry, how am I supposed to react when I find out the man I have been seeing formonthsfailed to tell me he has a child with another woman?”
“I told you that I just found out myself. It’s not as if I hid him from you for our entire relationship. This was news to me too.”
She shakes her head. “Listen, I can’t keep going back-and-forth like this with you. In fact, I can’t do this anymore. This is too much. I am drawing the line here.”
“What do you mean?”
“I think we should break up.”
My heart stops. “And there it is.…”
“And there what is?”
“The reason you’re flipping out. Using this as an excuseto end things between us. We can work through this, but no, you want to run away.”
“How dare you say that to me?”
