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I tried to control it, but I let out a snort anyways “I know adulterers shouldn’t throw stones at one another,” she went on to say, and I thought, At least she see a little bit of responsibility “I’m truly sorry for the pain I caused you Aiden I understand somewhat no bad that hurt must have been,” she said “I think only those who had a child and then lost them would understand”
I thought about Mark again and said, “I don’t think you have any real idea what you did to me, Cecile I couldn’t trust anyone after you Because of that, I al for me at the time”
“You’re probably right that I wouldn’t understand I know thatI never told you this, but Jake knew all along the baby was his He wanted to let you spend all of yourready for him and then he would swoop in and play papa I don’t think so Anyways, Jake has had two successive affairs I discovered the to hide it He works ten to twelve hours a day and then he spends most of his weekends with his woh on Mark Jake acts like he’s a bother, or that he is in the wayfor attention…and it’s even gotten worse than that…”
I felt a pang in ht about hi, if he started school…if he could ride a bike yet In knowing that little boy, I’d found out the hard way that biology doesn’t make you a parent I still loved that little boy the way I did the first ti the ti, I wrapped up the phone call
“Cecile, I feel bad for Mark You kno I feel about that little boy…I think But you took hime with tales of how unhappy he is Anyways, I ao now, I hope it all works out”
“Aiden, wait! I just want to ask for a little bit of your time, for Mark Please, he needs you No matter how bad you despise me…”
“My time? You want me to spend time with the boy you let me fall in love with, the one you let me believe was mine, and then you tore him from my arms and kept him away from me for what…almost four years now? He won’t even remember me, and if he does it will be even worse this tiet close and then take him away on a whim”
“I know, you’re right You have no reason to do this for me, for hi…for Mark’s sake…I’ain I realize nohat a terrible mistake that was”
“Aiden, they’re all waiting for you in the conference room” My company CFO, Randall had stuck his head in the office
Covering the phone with my hand, I said, “Two minutes, Randall” Then back into the phone I continued, “Cecile, I really have to go” I was struggling hether or not to trust her again Randall stuck his head in again and I said, “Give et back to you on this I’m married now, I’m sure if you’ve kept up with me at all, you know that I’ll have to talk to my wife; we have a son of our own”
“Yes, I heard you got married, and I think I read a birth announceratulations, you have your family at last” It was too bad that she didn’t sound sincere She gave me her number and I wrote it on the back of one of my business cards and stuck it inup she said, “This isn’t about me at all, Aiden It’s all for Mark”
“You can bet that if I agree to this, it won’t be you and I doing things together It will bereacquainted with each other, no ain
“Yes, I know that, Aiden That hy I chose to call you Mark needs you”
I hung up the phone and thought about it all for a minute I meant what I said, but I sincerely doubted that she did Cecile rarely did anything, just for anyone other than Cecile, it was one of the reasons I had started spending so otten so tired of all the drama She used my absence as an excuse to have an affair Neither of us handled things right, but I didn’t cut out her heart by taking her child away either