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“I am not going to explain myself to you.” Her nose flared as she looked up at him.
“How long have you known?” he asked.
“Since Easter. During church.”
“So, you sat in front of me and realized you were pregnant with my baby. Then didn’t tell me the entire afternoon we spent together?” he demanded.
“No, it was the weekend after that. I was atmychurch, thinking I was going to die of cancer. My periods had stopped, and I talked to my sister, but she said it could not be menopause since I was too young. Then after church, Tasha said I was pregnant,” she explained.
“And because your niece said it, it’s true?” he questioned, starting to not believe the story.
“Yes.” She leaned back in her chair and signed a paper before adding, “No, I took a test the next day, and one with Mandy. But Tasha could already tell.”
“When were you going to tell me?” Math folded his arms over his chest. He hated her calmness about this.
“Today.”
“Convenient,” he hissed.
“It is the truth. That is why I sent you a text to see you tonight.” She pointed at her cell phone on her desk.
“I didn’t get a text.” He pulled out his phone and looked. Nothing. “What happened yesterday?”
“I realized that if I were going to stay here, I would have to give up some things from my past,” she stated calmly again. He was starting to realize she worked hard to control her emotions, and most of the time, it worked.
“So, you were depressed because you had to stay here? Sounds like you love it here. Are you going to demand marriage then?” he asked, just like Karen had all those years ago when she got pregnant with Mila. Would this be another marriage for him that was destined to fail?
“No, we will raise the baby together but separately,” she replied.
He glared into her gray eyes. “Why did you sleep with me then?”
“Because I enjoy sex with you,” she stated, showing no emotion.
“You’re very cold today. It reminds me of the woman I used to know.” He shook his head at her and stood up.
“The feeling is mutual,” she replied. “Forget I said anything. You are not the person I thought you were.”
“Same here, lady. You think I want to have a baby with the cold bitch from the bank?”
They just stared at each other for a while. Her office phone buzzed, and a voice said, “There is someone on line one for you, Tess. If you can’t answer, I have no idea who to send them to. I can barely understand them.”
Turning away from him, she answered the phone. “Tess Thorn.”
Feeling dismissed, Math got up and headed out. He couldn’t think straight in her office, surrounded by her smell. She was talking in an even more businesslike tone with the caller as he walked out of her office, slamming the door again. Without a word, he walked out of the bank.
Tess was carrying his baby and had been for months. What was he going to do with her having his baby? Did he even want her to have his baby? She had given him an out; she could leave town, and nobody would ever know. But he would know. He would wonder about the baby. Would it have her gray eyes? Would it have blue? Would the baby look like his family, like his other kids? In the future, would he walk right by his child and never know it was his?
Could he just let her walk away, with or without his baby? He had started his day pissed that she wasn’t in bed with him when he woke up. What about when she no longer lived in town? In the state even?
Math stopped and leaned against the brick wall of the bank. He couldn’t rap his mind around it. He had gone to the bank because he thought that she was leaving, only to find she was staying and that she was having a baby, their baby.
Math let out a sigh as he pushed away from the wall and headed back into the bank. She would be marrying him. She was having his baby. He walked straight back into her office, but she was gone. The desk was cleared off like she had never been there. Had it all been a dream?
Turning and looking around the bank, he didn’t see her. At the reception desk, he asked the middle-aged woman where Tess was.
“She went home sick,” the receptionist said, as if she hadn’t noticed he had already been in the bank today and had talked to Tess.
“I was standing outside the door, and I didn’t see her.”
