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“Correction, I didn’t know she was still married. I was under the impression she and her husband were no longer together.”
“How did you miss an entire husband?”
“I never went to her house, and she never came to mine. We met at a hotel. We didn’t talk a whole lot about deep things, and I was cool with that. One time I met her at the hotel. When I walked into the room, she was fully dressed which was not how she usually welcomed me. She said we needed to talk. I sat down expecting her to say something about taking the relationship to the next level which I had considered but instead she told me she was pregnant. Although we used protection most of the time, I didn’t question if the baby was mine, but then she said, ‘it’s my husband’s baby, not yours.’ That was the last time we were together.”
“Wow…were your feelings hurt?”
“No, I was a little stunned, but I wasn’t emotionally invested for my feelings to be affected by her revelation.”
“Are you sure the baby is not yours?”
“Yes, we had a DNA test done. I didn’t care if she told me it was her husband’s. I needed to be one hundred percent certain that it wasn’t mine.”
“She readily agreed to that?”
“No, I threatened legal action if she didn’t comply. I wasn’t going to have my child floating around in the world not knowing me.”
“The test came back negative?”
“Yes.”
“Were you sad that the child wasn’t yours?”
“I was indifferent. I would have accepted either outcome.”
“The great Samuel Valentine was some side dick. That’s unbelievable.”
“We all can get played if we are not careful. What about you, no one ever played you?”
“I mean, I wasn’t played, but I was in a non-traditional relationship, but that was years ago.”
“What does that mean, non-traditional?”
“He was my father’s co-worker, and they graduated from high school together.”
Samuel twisted his mouth in disgust.
“Don’t make that face. I didn’t make faces at your side dick story.”
“Please tell me you were eighteen and it was consensual.”
“I was over twenty-one, and it was consensual. I thought I wanted someone who was more mature and could understand my drive and ambitions. I figured an older man wouldn’t want to knock me up and keep me in the house. I was wrong. It started out cool, but then he wanted me to slow down. He asked why I applied for the second clerkship with the Supreme Justices. He told me if I accepted the second clerkship he wouldn’t be around. I accepted the clerkship. He told me I would be lonely and miserable for my entire life. I said but I’m still at the beginning of my life, and you are at the end of yours. He was offended. We haven’t spoken since,” she shrugged. “It’s so much easier to let people be who they are instead of trying to change them.”
“Did that hurt your feelings?”
“No, I did miss the regular sex but other than that, I was okay.”
“Did your family know?”
“Hell no! Although my mother probably would’ve been elated I brought someone home for dinner, my father would have murdered him.”
“Did they meet Barry?”
She sat up from her relaxed position and looked at me confused.
“Why would I want to introduce them to Barry?” She asked with her head tilted to the side.
“You dated him, right?”
