Early Short Stories by Tressie Lockwood

Author:Tressie Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: interracial romance, multicultural romance, contemporary romance
Publisher: Tressie Lockwood
Published: 2015-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHEATING WITH RANDY 2

“Happy Birthday to You!” I sang with all my heart, tearfully watching my tiny little two-year-old dig into her birthday cake with her fingers.

Every day, she looked more and more like Randy, with those wide grey eyes watching me as if she could report back to her daddy all that I said and did. It was a stupid thought, but one that haunted me sometimes. It had been two years since I’d seen Randy and Kate. I had never contacted them to inform them of where Lamont and I had moved. I guess if Randy was really interested, he could have hired a private detective or something to find me. Deep inside, I had hoped he would come chasing after me, begging me to come back to him. That never happened, and so I built a life without him. Just Lamont, Raine and me.

Glancing at Lamont as he smiled down at my baby girl, I realized I could have started this latest tale of my life with the words “what goes around, comes around”. In other words, what I did to Kate was now happening to me. For a few weeks, I’d suspected Lamont was cheating. All those damn late nights at the office couldn’t all be true. His position wasn’t that vital. But knowing my own past, I didn’t really want to face the truth. So, I never called him on it.

I suppose I was getting what I deserved after banging Kate’s man like I’d lost my mind. Sure I had permission, but I didn’t have to fall in love. I didn’t have to run away with Raine.

“Ma, doot.” Raine called to me, with a proud look on her icing-coated face. She’d managed to grasp a hunk of cake on her baby fork. Never mind all the crumbs along her eyebrows, in her hair and crammed between her chubby fingers.

I grinned, shaking my head. Taking Raine was necessary to my own sanity. I could never have lived without her. And with that thought, I wondered how Randy could be living without her. It hurt like hell thinking about it. Despite everything, he was a good man. He deserved to be a part of his daughter’s life.

Lamont got a page and I stiffened, watching him. He looked up with an apoplectic expression in his eyes. “Sorry, baby. Work. Gotta go.”

I could have punched him in his face right then. Even if it was work, it could wait. Raine was more important. I sighed. Who was I kidding? There was no doubt that he loved my daughter, but we both knew she wasn’t his. Lamont was as dark as anything and I’d never lied to say she was his. He’d never been under any illusions. One, we’d always used protection. And two, we hadn’t been intimate in months when I’d gotten pregnant. I never admitted that Raine was Randy’s though.

Still, he was the only daddy she knew and he could act like it. “I can’t believe you’re going to work.

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