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The iratulated od Why didn’t I just tell him the moment I found out?" I said out loud

I picked up my phone and looked at the ti upstairs to change out ofto waste another o to Josh’s apartrabbed his T-shirt off the floor and slipped it over my head before I pulled on a pair of jean shorts I s hiht as he mentioned kids war…not right now What if he freaks out about it? He was just getting used to the idea of us, and now, I’ to throw a baby into it

I shook ht I need to do this

I ran downstairs and skidded to a stop Fuck! My car is at Josh’s parents’ house

Neither of us had given a second thought about leaving lanced over and saw h I had kept my dad’s Lexus, I would only drive it every now and then Srabbed the keys

"Okay, Daddy, let’s go tell Josh he’s gonna be a father"

Chapter Twenty-Five

I sat there, bouncing hs of oing to come," Bryan said as he sht? My fucking mother is the cause of all this"

Bryan let out a laugh "Brad, you’re a grown s"

I looked down at the ground I kneas right, but at this moment, I hated my mother She had constantly pushed Aht in the first place

"I knohat you’re thinking, Brad Yes, yourrole in all of this, but you have a decision to ht now Do you continue to let your mother control your world? Or will you do what you wanted to do when you first met Amanda?"

Just then, I heard her voice, and I jumped up The door opened, and Amanda walked in For a briefto run into lanced down at her stoer I looked back up into her eyes, and I s left to give Her eyes were bloodshot, so I knew she ood for her or the baby

Bryan got up, walked over to Amanda, and shook her hand "Aestured for her to take a seat

"Bryan, the pleasure is h avedown across from me Bryan had only put three chairs in the room, and he’d purposely placed Amanda’s chair across froer," I said as I smiled

She placed her hands on her sto around a lot more lately"

My heart dropped intoto throw up She found out the sex of the baby withoutwould come out I cleared my throat "You, u in my eyes

Her eyes snapped up and met mine "No! I would never…I mean" She took a deep breath and looked away fro to see if you could there when I have the next sonogra to ask you today if you wanted to be there"

I s, I want to be there"

She nodded and attempted to smile "Okay Well, it’ll be just a few more weeks, and then we’ll know"

Bryan cleared his throat and then began our session He talked about hoell ht be able to finish up the program a feeeks early, and how I should handle the situation withaboutaround in her seat

"Brad, would you like to tell Amanda e talked about?"

"Um…well, Bryan and I talked about how I needed to tell you everything I haven’t told you that Michele has been black me the last few"Why?"

"Money She just wants money from me"

She took a deep breath and looked intoyou with?"

"A video"

"Oh My God You didn’t…you didn’t sleep with her, did you?"

"What? God no, Amanda I already told you that I just kissed her, but she…she, us, and then… a woher than a kite?" Amanda shouted at me as she stood up

"Aood for you or the baby to get so upset," Bryan said

Amanda just turned and looked at Bryan "Fine" She sat back down and put her hands on her sto? I jumped up and went over to her

She stood up and moved away from me "Don’t touch me!"

"What?" I almost fell to my knees

"Just don’t touch ht now"