Cheaper to Keep Her (part 1) by Kiki Swinson presents Unique

Author:Kiki Swinson presents Unique [Swinson presents Unique, Kiki]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: KS Publications
Published: 2010-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Cheaper to Keep Her Unique

Chapter 17—It Ain’t Personal

I woke up the next morning to a ringing phone.

I jumped up hoping it was Duke calling to apologize to me for his horrible attitude and behavior. But it wasn’t him. It was Diamond again. This time she was checking in on me.

“What’s up, Diamond? I’m fine,” I mumbled, my voice still groggy with sleep.

She immediately went for the jugular, asking me that important question, whether or not I had told Duke about the baby? I told her the truth that I didn’t tell him yet. Diamond went on and on about not telling him about the baby and to just get rid of it. For some reason she didn’t see it like I did. Maybe hindsight is twenty/twenty, but at the time, I thought the baby was all I had left to save my relationship with Duke.

I quickly got off the phone with Diamond. I wasn’t in the mood to hear what she was talking about that early in the damn morning.

I toyed with the idea of calling Duke and just telling him the news over the phone, but I really wanted to see him. I wanted to watch his reaction when he found out. I wanted to be the recipient of his hugs and kisses. I wanted to feel his excitement. Those visions of Duke’s fantasy reaction quickly faded from my mind when I remembered that he hardly ever answered my calls and he had just cursed me out and treated me like shit. I sighed loudly and stared at my cell phone. From how things looked, I finally settled in my mind that I would be telling Duke the news via telephone.

It took me three starts and stops to finally place a single call to Duke.

When he answered his phone, my heart immediately started pumping wildly. When his voice filtered through the phone I could tell he was annoyed with my call.

“Duke, I don’t want to fight. I want to talk to you . . . in person,” I said in a low voice.

“Lynise, I can’t come there right now. I’m taking care of business,” Duke said dryly. He sounded like he hated my guts now. He wasn’t even referring to me as Beautiful anymore. I was just plain ole Lynise to him now.

“Please, Duke. I’m begging to see you. I have to tell you something important,” I implored. I had sat up in the bed. My head was spinning and I felt like throwing up. The morning sickness was coming on with a vengeance.

“Naw, I’m not up for no emotional bullshit today,” Duke snapped. “You gon’ have to tell me over the phone or don’t tell me at all.”

I closed my eyes and shook my head. I swear it was like this man went from an angel to the devil himself all in a matter of days. I just couldn’t believe how he was speaking to me and treating me all of a sudden.

I swallowed hard and reluctantly proceeded to give him the news over the phone.

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