My One Desire by Claudia Burgoa

Author:Claudia Burgoa [Burgoa, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

Gage: Are you awake?

Tess: Yes.

Gage: Can I call you?

Tess: Please.

The phone rang. It was a call, not FaceTime. I picked it up but didn’t greet him.

“Hey,” he said.

“Where are you?”

“It doesn’t matter right now,” he said.

“What’s going on?”

“Look, things got complicated.”

“You have a baby,” I jumped into the conversation.

The silence between us lasted an eternity, or maybe a few seconds, but the stillness was killing me.

“It’s a yes or no answer, Gage. Nothing complicated about it.”

“Yeah,” he said.

“How old?”

“She’s a couple of days old,” he said.

“April sixth,” I said as if answering my own question of when she was born.

He remained quiet.

“Who’s the mom?” I asked. I felt numb, my mind tried to stay in control while my heart crumbled.

I wasn’t a math genius. But with my career, I added and subtracted pretty fast when I had to handle dates. The months between the time I went away to Reykjavik and when his daughter was born were just too close for me to ignore the possibility that something more than just a fan breaking into our house had happened.

Did he cheat and couldn’t get rid of the groupie? Had she trapped him with a baby? Just the way my mother trapped my father.

My entire life suddenly collapsed. The old Tess woke from her emotional coma. I summoned enough strength to get through the call. My heart froze, but my anger burned like flames during a wildfire.

“You lied to me. You fucking lied to me,” I screamed. “We had a fucking open relationship. The only condition was that you’d tell me so I’d be safe. Did you even wear a fucking condom? Should I get myself checked for STDs? Was she the only one you fucked while we were together?”

“Tess!” He snapped.

“Am I upsetting you?” I chuckled. “Oh, is the new daddy upset because his fucking girlfriend wants to know if he’s fucking clean or if she should get tested for fucking herpes.”

“You’re clean, Tess,” he said. “Can I talk now?”

“I’m listening.”

“Look, things got complicated.”

“Stop using that fucking word. There’s nothing complicated. You fucked another woman and knocked her up. It’s pretty simple.”

“Tess,” he warned me.

I exhaled loudly but stayed quiet.

“Look, I have some responsibilities. Right now, I have no idea what’s going to happen to my future. It’s uncertain.”

“You should try to figure things out for your kid.” I gave him an out, trying to sound mature, even happy for him. “Who is the mother? Did Marti come back or did you knock up some groupie?”

“Tess,” he grunted.

“What’s the baby’s name?” I asked curiously. He liked to think of names and even made a list for our non-existent kids.

“She doesn’t have a name, yet,” he said.

That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard. The man that liked to plan didn’t have a name. Maybe he never sold the house and Marti lived there. Did he have two lives?

“You have a list if I recall,” I reminded him, stupidly. “Jojo was one of the top five names. Well, you wanted to call her Jojo and weren’t sure what name to use.

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