A Lie Unraveled by Constance Masters Read Free Book Online Page B

see me. I came to your room and when I got there, the door was open. I saw you hugging another girl. You pulled back from her and you held her shoulders. I knew you were going to kiss her; I didn’t want to see, so I ran.”
    “I never kissed another girl, Desi, I swear I didn’t. When was it?”
    “I don’t remember the exact day. There was some big football match on; kids were all dressed in one color or another.”
    “ Oh wait!” he said.
    “See you did kiss someone didn’t you?”
    “I didn’t kiss anyone but I know the day you’re talking about. Ben, my roommate dumped that girl. She came to the dorm looking for him and she started to cry. What you saw was me comforting a friend. I wouldn’t even call her a friend really; she was an ex-girlfriend of a friend.” He made her turn to look at him. “I didn’t cheat on you, ever , I swear.”
    “Oh my God,” she said, the ramifications of the misunderstanding finally hitting her.
    “Why didn’t you just tell me, ask me?”
    He didn’t look angry anymore, he just looked broken. “I really thought that’s what I saw, I believed that you cheated on me, Justin.”
    “So there was never anyone else?” He asked.
    She shook her head. There had never been anyone else, before or since, and she was pretty sure there never would be. “Never,” she said. “What is there to say? When people are young, they make mistakes, sometimes big ones. Maybe I was a little self-centered. When I went there that day, I was hoping you’d ask me to marry you; that we’d be a family. Justin I was only eighteen years old. I was a baby having a baby.”
    “We would have been married if I found out. I would have gladly married you, you were everything to me,” he said.
    “Was I? Then how come I’m still alone and you married someone else and had another child?” She couldn’t help but feel jealous. Destiny knew it was ridiculous to feel that way about a dead woman but she couldn’t help it. It was what it was, he couldn’t have been too in love with her if he’d run off with the first person who came along and started a new family. His child with this new woman had had what Sophia missed out on for nine years of her life. She had Justin for a daddy.
    “That isn’t fair, I wouldn’t have met anyone else if you’d told the truth. I didn’t know there was a baby and I thought you’d moved on.”
    “This is such a mess,” she said.
    “The big question is where do we go from here?”
     
     

Chapter Four
     
    “I don’t know where we go from here,” Destiny said. “I really don’t. I do know that I’m sorry, for a lot of things. I’m sorry that I ran and didn’t give you the chance to explain and I’m sorry that I lied about having met someone else, but I’m sorriest for keeping Sophia from you all these years.”
    “We can’t change the past and for me to hang onto a grudge about us splitting up would mean that I was wishing that Lily-Grace wasn’t here. I love both my children. Yes, I know I just met Sophia but I can’t explain it. I fell in love with her as soon as I knew there was a possibility that she was mine, our daughter.”
    “I know exactly what you mean, I fell in love with her the minute I felt those little butterflies and knew she was moving around inside me.” She smiled. “I missed you though. I used to wish you were there sharing it all with me.”
    “Well, I’m here now and I’m not going anywhere.”
    “Do you forgive me?” Destiny asked.
    “Of course I do. I have a lot of lost time for me to make up for with Sophia,” he said.
    Interesting, she thought. Did he just mean that he wanted to make up for lost time with Sophia or both of them? Was there a chance that they could rekindle what they had in the past? “Of course there is but what exactly do you mean by making up for lost time?”
    “I want to be in my daughter’s life,” Justin said.
    Destiny looked up into his face, trying to read him, only to find him looking