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“Do you have a few minutes to talk?” Jay asked, his voice subdued.
“Yes,” she said, finding her voice. “Sure.”
“First, I want to apologize for how I reacted to your suggestion that we should take a break. You were right, and I shouldn’t have reacted so negatively.”
She wasright?Her heart sank. Had he decided that this wasn’t going to be the temporary break she’d envisioned?
“I was dealing with some stuff, and you were right. If I wasn’t going to share that with you, then I needed to just focus on the situation.”
Misha was at a loss for words. Did she tell him it was okay? Tell him she wished she’d never asked for the break.
Jay sighed. “I need to tell you what’s been going on before you hear it from anyone else.”
That sounded horribly ominous to her, and Misha swallowed hard before she said, “Okay?”
“I think I told you that I occasionally dated other women when Casey and I were broken up.”
“Yes, you did.”
“I don’t even know where to start to explain everything,” Jay said, frustration bleeding into his words.
“Just tell me the most important parts and then fill in the blanks. If I have questions, I’ll ask.”
“Okay. The most important part is that I have a son.”
Of all the things Misha had braced herself for, that had never crossed her mind, and the revelation was like a kick to her stomach. “A son?”
“Yeah.”
“With Casey?”
“No. No. Definitely not. I didn’t know about him until his mother showed up a month ago to tell me about him.”
The blonde woman who had shown up in the office, that had roused Janessa and Aria’s suspicions. “Amberlyn.”
There was a beat of silence before Jay said, “How do you know her name? Did Janessa call you today?”
“No. But she and Aria were talking about the woman who’d come in to talk to you right before you… changed. They thought maybe…”
“That I was seeing her?” Jay asked with a humorless laugh. “Nice that my family thinks so highly of me to believe something like that.”
“They didn’t know what was going on,” Misha reminded him. “You wouldn’t talk to anyone, so they were left to try to piece things together. It’s not necessarily their fault that they put the pieces together wrong.”
“And what did you think?”
“I didn’t know anything about her until about a week ago. Janessa and Aria let their suspicions slip.”
“Did you believe them?”
“I didn’t want to. You’d promised me that you wouldn’t date someone else while we were together, but by then, we’d broken up. I didn’t know what to think.”
Jay didn’t respond right away, and when he did, it wasn’t to address what she’d said. “I didn’t know anything about Peyton until Amberlyn showed up to tell me about him. But she hadn’t just come to tell me about him. She wanted me to take him.”
“What? She didn’t want him?”
“She’s in a situation where she can no longer safely raise him.”
Misha didn’t like the sound of that. “Do you know for sure he’s yours?”
