Epilogue Part Two
SUNNY
“ L isten bitch. You will give me my child, whether it’s by force or not. Kerry and I are getting married next month, then I’m officially running for mayor. I can’t have it look like I abandoned my own child,” Jason says on the other end of the line.
“But you did abandon her, Jason. You left me on my own at eighteen with a baby. You haven’t even met her all but two times. You will not take my daughter from me,” I tell him, wanting to reach through the phone and slit his throat.
How can this be happening to me? I was a teen mom who got pregnant by the boy I thought was the love of my life. How wrong and na?ve I was. He finally convinced me to sleep with him, then the next day, I walked to his house to see him fucking a cheerleader in his driveway. He laughed and told me he was only in it for one thing, and I was stupid enough to fall for it. I found out I was pregnant weeks later, and it’s been Paisley and me ever since. Jason has seen her twice, but not intentionally, mainly in the grocery store or in passing. He had his parents try to pay me off to keep my mouth shut, to never admit who my baby’s real father was. So, what the hell has changed? Why does he want to take her from me now?
“Stupid bitch, you want to do this the hard way? Alright, I’ll have my lawyer and the police at your door within the next hour,” he says before hanging up. I fall to the floor in tears before my best friend, Milani, grabs me and holds me in her arms.
“He has the whole town on his side. What am I supposed to do, Milani? He’ll take her, and I’ll never be able to get her back,” I say, falling apart in her arms. My daughter is my entire world. If he takes her, he might as well kill me, too.
“I have someone for you to go to, but you have to leave now and never look back,” she tells me, cryptic as hell.
“Where can I go?” I ask, wiping my eyes.
“Do you trust me?” she asks.
“Of course I do,” I answer immediately.
“Leave your cell. Get Paisley, get in my car, and follow my instructions to a T. Just promise me if you do this, you’ll never look back. Not even to look at the review mirror.”
What the hell have I gotten into?
The End