“Oh, so after you found out, you let any uncovered dick inside of you?”
“That’s uncalled for,” Rene yelled.
“I don’t think it is. I think the truth burns and you can’t handle it. I don’t know what about you being pregnant again has to do with Becca. You made your choice in her life and that’s where it stands.”
“Not if I go for custody.”
He paled. He actually felt the blood drain from his face and was never so thrilled they were on the phone and she couldn’t witness his reaction.
Women like Rene would only feed off it more like a vampire sucking the soul out of him.
“You don’t have a shot in hell at having custody of Becca and we both know it. But if you want to spend your money and try, go for it.”
He disconnected the call after that.
It wouldn’t do either of them any good to fight over something that was legally binding right now and would take time to change.
No judge in their right mind would let her have custody with her work schedule and he wasn’t about to give his daughter up or share her either.
“I don’t need to know what that was about,” Alana said.
“You heard most of it,” he said, sinking back into the chair he’d vacated when he was pacing in her office.
“I heard her yelling on the other end too.”
“You think I’m an asshole, don’t you? For what I said to her?”
“No,” she said. “You said everything that popped into my mind when I heard she was pregnant. I always wished I had the courage to say things like that to Jonathan.”
“He had a lot of dicks in him too?” he asked dryly.
She laughed. “I know you’re trying to joke.”
“If I don’t joke, Kelsey is going to be pissed when I put my fist through the wall.”
He didn’t think it was possible for him to be brought to violence.
He hadn’t when Rene left him with a newborn, but now thinking he might have to give time with his daughter up to a woman who only wanted it because she had another child coming was making his blood turn black with an evil strong enough to peel his skin off of him.
Alana got up and walked toward him, sat on his lap and put her arms around his neck.
He held her tight because it felt like the only thing he could do with his world tumbling around him.
Just when everything seemed to finally be lining up, the road didn’t only curve, it dropped off a cliff.
38
LIFE HAPPENS
Feeling helpless wasn’t a foreign emotion for Alana, but it’d been a while since she’d experienced it.
There wasn’t much she could do but be there for him.
“What do you need from me?” she asked. Whatever he wanted she was going to hand it over without thought or consequences.
That was what you did for people you loved.
“I don’t know,” he said. “Right now I need to decide if I sit back and do nothing and wait for her next move or be proactive. She’s liable to change her mind anyway.”
