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“Okay, let me see.” He took the stick from me.
I bit my lip and lowered my eyes to the floor. Griff didn’t say anything. Why wasn’t he saying anything? I raised my eyes again and the look on his face spoke volumes.
Fuck.
“I’m pregnant, aren’t I?”
“Yeah. Sorry, man.”
I took a deep breath. And another one.
I was having another baby.
But I couldn’t panic, yet. No, I had to…
Griff stopped me as I turned to leave the room. “Hey, where are you going?”
“I have to call Matt.”
34
Matthew
It feltweird to sit at my late father’s desk. It was a huge mahogany thing that seemed entirely too big, even considering the heaps of documents scattered across it. The room still had this faint smell of tobacco that I always associated with my father, even though no one had smoked in here in a while. Briefly, I entertained the thought of fishing a cigar out of the desk’s drawer and lighting up myself, but I’d never smoked, and I wasn’t going to start now. Not even in memory of a dead man.
No, I was here to get some work done, if only to distract myself from everything else in my life.
I was looking through some of the papers on the desk when my cell phone rang. Looked like Eli wanted to talk. I found myself hoping that it was to apologize as I answered the call.
“Hey, it’s me,” Eli said. “I know we were fighting and all, but I’ve got something important to tell you.”
“Yeah?” I leaned forward, propping my elbows on my father’s large desk. “Did something happen to Jake?”
“No, Jake’s fine. He’s asleep.” Eli let out a sigh which sounded a little like he was glad children needed to sleep occasionally.
“If it’s not Jake, what did you want to talk about? Is this about us? Because I’m sorry about—”
“I’m sorry too,” Eli cut me off. “I shouldn’t have said what I did. I know what I did was wrong.”
“But were you saying the truth? Is that really why you didn’t tell me? Because you thought I couldn’t handle it? Because you didn’t want me to be your child’s father?”
Eli didn’t respond immediately, which let me know there was at leastsometruth to what he’d said, even if he’d said it in anger.
“Eli? Say something please.”
After another moment, he did. “It’s more complicated than that,” he said. “I mean, yes, you being this high society alpha and me being… me added to my insecurities, but that wasn’t all of it.” He sounded deflated somehow. “I love you, Matt. I did then and I do now, but there’s just some things…Initially I didn’t tell you because I was young and stupid and I had myself convinced that I would ruin both our lives. And then over time I also convinced myself that Jake and I wouldn’t fit into your world. But that wasn’t because I believed you would be a horrible father or anything. I see now that I only did that to reassure myself that I was doing the right thing, even when I knew I wasn’t. And I’m so sorry. And I don’t know if we can really get past this. I betrayed you.”
I wasn’t sure where even to start responding to all that. Was this really the kind of conversation we should be having over the phone? “I know you’re sorry,” I said. “And I love you too.”With all my heart.“And I think that we should talk in person.”
“You’re probably right. It’s not just that, though. There’s something else I need to tell you.”
“Something else?”
“Yeah, um… Are you sitting down? You might want to be sitting down for this.”
“You’re scaring me a little bit,” I tried to joke, even though hewasreally making me wonder.
“You remember when we had sex at my place?”
