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But she rong Or she had lied She had lied to my face all those times Told me countless tiot pregnant My schedule hadn’t always overlapped with hers, but I’d believed her She’d had no reason to say otherwise Colton had been two years old before I even knew about it By then, the exact travel dates had been lost on ht schedules, but we hadn’t always had sex every time I was there It had been impossible to determine if I was Colt’s father

Now, I knew that I was

Colton was mine

E her into the air

“I’h the vacuum

“God, I love you,” Ieveryone else in the room

I set her back down on her feet, cupped her face in my hands, and kissed the breath out of her This was the e that I had the woman I loved here with ain It was euphoric

“What the fuck, Vanessa?” Marc cried, jarringme into this?”

Marc’s and Vanessa’s lawyers were looking at the docureed with Jake

“I swear, it was you, Marc I swear,” Vanessa said “Jensen wasn’t even in town that ether You know that”

“You just wanted the drama Fuck!”

“I really believed it was you,” she whispered Tears brimmed in her eyes “I did”

“You lied to all of us, Vanessa,” I said, drawing her attention to me “You lied to me, to Marc, to everyone But even worse was that you deluded yourself into believing it You’re never holding this over ain I’m free Free of you”

At those words, Vanessa completely lost it She broke down into tears and covered her face in her hands Vanessa had been holding onto this fact for so long, thinking it was a way to keep ht for a second that I would still hold a flame for her after all she had done

But it was over There was nothing left And she had no more control

“If this satisfies everyone, we’ll leave the custody agreement as it stands and deny Mr Tarman’s request for access to Colton,” Jake said “If ant to take this further, then we’ll see you in court, Ms Hendricks”