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Jesse looked confused "I don’t understand"

"You’re pregnant," Nicole said coldly "That ht make the jury sympathetic"

Jesse took a step back "How do you know?"

"My attorney mentioned it"

"But I told hi What about attorney-client privilege?"

Nicole rolled her eyes "I’m his client I pay for his service You’re the person who stole What makes you think he’d do what you said?"

At thatand unsure of herself "I didn’t realize"

Claire stepped between theiving you You won’t have to worry about going to court"

"For taking what’s half o again," Nicole rateful for her encounter with Hawk yesterday Their powerful sexual experience had iven her so humiliated

"Our father left half the bakery to me," Jesse said loudly

"In trust until you’re twenty-five," Nicole reminded her

"You could buy me out That’s all I want I didn’t steal the cake recipe I can’t steal what’s half"You went behind my back You built an Internet site that looked exactly like the one we already have and you sold cakes What would you call it?"

"Doing what I had a right to"

"And Drew? Did we share him, too?"

Jesse turned away "I don’t want to talk about that"

"Iine how much I don’t care about what you want"

"I didn’t sleep with hi "I saw hi you What would you call it?"

"Don’t be like that Why can’t you try to understand?"

Nicole tasted fury "Oh, so this is my fault? After all I did for you?"

Claire stepped between them "Stop Both of you"

"She won’t believe me," Jesse whined

"She’s a known liar" And worse, Nicole thought

"I don’t lie"

"You leave things out Olared at both of them "We have to work this out"

"No, we don’t," Nicole said quietly "Soiven"

Jesse spun back to face theht Nicole only wantssense," Nicole said

Jesse glared at her "You knohat’s so funny about all this? The baby isn’t Drew’s It’s Matt’s"

Nicole wasn’t surprised Jesse would go there "How can you be sure? You were sleeping with both of them"

Her baby sister flushed "That’s what you think, what you’ll always think That’s why you told him about Drew You wanted to hurt ratulations He hates uilty "As always, your flare for the dramatic overrides any need to tell the truth I didn’t tell Matt about you and Drew I told his er living with me"

Tears filled Jesse’s eyes "So you told her what you sahat you believed happened with Drew and she told Matt You ruined everything"

"The person who did that is you," Nicole said coldly

"No, I didn’t," Jesse yelled "I didn’t sleep with Drew I didn’t"

Claire looked disappointed "Jesse, we can only make this work if we start fro honest" Jesse wiped away tears "Why won’t you believe ry She’d seen Drew and Jesse in bed together Jesse had been nad, at least from the waist up Nicole had seen that o"

"No!" Jesse threw herself in front of the door "You have to listen The baby is Matt’s You have to believe me"

Claire shook her head "I’m sorry, Jesse You were in bed with Drew We all know that happened Why can’t we start frohtened "Fine," she said, tears still filling her eyes "If that’s what you want, that’s e’ll talk about I screwed his brains out for days We couldn’t get enough of each other Is that what you want to hear? I gave hi you never could Is it all better now?"

Nicole pressed her hand to her stoo"

She pushed Jesse out of the way and left the apartment Claire followed

"I’h to her"

"That’ll never happen," Nicoleto throw up noait until she got home