The Million Dollar Demise by RM Johnson

Author:RM Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

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Lewis sat in the passenger seat of Daphanie’s car, looking out at the one-story white laboratory building. Layla was in his lap.

“Daddy, where’s this?”

“It’s nowhere, baby,” Lewis said, hating to have to lie to her.

He hated everything about what was going on at this moment. But he was thankful to Daphanie. She called this morning and told Lewis she had a surprise for him. “Tell me where you live, and I’ll pick you up,” she said, and soon showed up with Layla. After hugging and kissing his daughter, Lewis stopped to ask Daphanie how she had done it.

Daphanie told him everything. “I love Nate, but it’s wrong for him to stop you from seeing your daughter,” she added.

Lewis was overjoyed to finally be reunited with Layla, but sad as well. “She might not even be mine,” Lewis sadly admitted. “I’m gonna have to get a paternity test.”

“I know someone at a lab downtown. She’ll get you in and out the same day,” Daphanie said, after agreeing he needed to do it.

But now, Layla in his lap, Lewis asked, “Why do we have to go in there?”

Daphanie pulled her key from the ignition. “What are you talking about?”

“I have my daughter,” Lewis said softly. “I talked to the other man. I know the aunt and the grandmother don’t want her. So, I don’t need proof. I have her now. I can just keep her.”

“No,” Daphanie said. “You can’t. Nate trusted me with her. I come back without her, then what?”

“Then you tell him her father has her.”

“Then everything is ruined. He’ll know I know you. He’ll never trust me, and I’ll never get what I want.”

Lewis looked at Layla, kissed her on the forehead.

“I’d be sorry about that. But …”

“I see,” Daphanie said. “You do that, and you’ll be no better than your friend. You’d be just like him, on the run. You would be on the street, constantly looking over your shoulder. Is that any way to raise that little girl?”

“No,” Lewis agreed sadly.

“Do this the right way, please. Let’s just go in there and take the test,” Daphanie said. “Everything will come back the way you know it will, and then you can do this the legal way.”

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