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dare he?
    “Am I Sophia’s dad?” he asked her, determination sparkling in his green eyes, daring her to go for round two. “ Am I? ”
    “Yes, you are.” A combination of fear and relief whooshed through Destiny and she found herself incapable of even taking a breath while she waited for his response. This had been a conversation ten years in the making and she was starting to wish that she hadn’t left it that long.
    “Wow,” was all he said.
    “Is that all you’ve got to say?” She was furious now. “You waltz in here, invite yourself to dinner and then demand answers. Then , to top it all off you beat me with a wooden spoon! Then I answer your damn question and all you have to say is wow ?”
    “What do you expect me to say, Destiny? I’m in shock. I’ve just found out that the girl I thought loved me, lied to me for ten years. I did nothing to you, why would you do such a cruel thing to me and to our child?”
    “She isn’t our child. She’s my child! You might have been the sperm donor but that’s all! You have no-one to blame but yourself that you missed out on being a father to Sophia. Anyway, she didn’t need you all those years and she doesn’t need you now.”
    “That’s debatable I think.”
    Destiny pulled her arm back and went to slap him but he caught her wrist. Once again she found herself face down, staring at her fluffy family room rug. “Stop it! You can’t keep doing this,” she said.
    “Apparently I can,” he said.
    His fingers were in the waist band of her jeans. Thankfully this particular pair were practically painted on; he wouldn’t get them down easily. When his hand snaked around the front, she squeaked. “Stop,” she said, trying to wriggle out of his grasp. His knuckles were on the bare skin of her belly and it was doing things to her. She hadn’t felt that tingly feeling for a very long time. Did she want Justin to stop what he was doing or not? The decision wasn’t hers apparently because once he had the button undone, his hand moved; it didn’t matter, the fire was well and truly lit.
    “Hold still, Destiny, or I’ll make you hold still,” Justin said, yanking the jeans down to her knees. Unfortunately for her but fortunately for him, her panties went with them.
    “Justin, I mean it, stop!” She knew he had one thing on his mind, punishment. Unfortunately, her body had other ideas. “It’s not my fault!”
    “You never thought anything was ever your fault and I’m not surprised that nothing’s changed.” His hand landed on each of her wriggling cheeks.
    “Ow! Stop that!” She didn’t want to yell but she couldn’t help it. The man was relentless; his hand fell heavily over and over. “It wasn’t my fault though, it wasn’t . You cheated on me.” The spanking stopped.
    “What do you mean I cheated on you? I have never ever cheated on you. I’ve never cheated on anybody, Destiny. That isn’t me, I wouldn’t do that. You’re the one who wrote me a letter to tell me you found someone else!”
    She burst into tears. How could he sound so sincere and yet be so dishonest? She knew what she saw. “You’re lying!” she said. “I saw you!” She tried to scramble off his knee but he wouldn’t let her run, instead he sat her up and held her tight.
    “Shh, I can see you think you know what you saw, Desi, but I didn’t cheat I swear,” he said desperately. “Tell me what you saw. No, you better tell me from the beginning, where you think it all went wrong.”
    He was holding her to him with one arm and rubbing gentle circles on her back with the other. That was soothing but it was his use of the pet name he always used for her that started to melt the ice. “I did a test and I found out I was pregnant,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t want to tell you on the phone so I went on the bus,” she said with a sniffle.
    “To my college?” He frowned.
    She could see he was trying to recall a visit from her. “You didn’t