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CHAPTER 1

Carolyn walked across her living room to fix the pictures on her desk for the sixth time in the last ten minutes. She could stand still knowing that David Rossi was on his way to her apartment. Her nerves were eating at her with every passing second. She had lived nearly 22 years hiding the secret she was now ready to confess. She heard a knocking on her door, she knew exactly who that was. Part of her felt regret. Since she had contacted him out of nowhere, and asked him over in what seemed out of the blue. No matter how awkward the circumstances seemed she knew David had to know her secret.

She took a step towards the door, then a step back to once again readjust the picture of a beautiful brunette. Finally, she took a deep breath and went to answer the door. As the she swung open the door she froze in her spot, she didn't know what effect seeing him again after their nasty divorce would have on her.

She stared the man down for a while before finally coming back from her daze, "Hello, Dave. How are you?"

"Better than you, I suppose. You look like you've seen a ghost." Rossi laughed at the pale faced woman in front of him.

"Well, it's been so long. I hardly remembered what you looked like." Carolyn said trying to get him back.

"Don't kid yourself, I'm impossible to forget…. I can see you've missed me." Rossi retorted with a smirk on his face.

"Ha! And what exactly do you think I missed about you? Your arrogance? Your hard-headedness? Maybe it was your childish and stupid sense of humor?"

"Ah, just like the old days, huh?" Rossi said as he gave her a mocking smile. "So what? Did you call me over just to remember what being married to you was like or to talk about something less unpleasant?"

"As much as I'd like to slap you and kick you out like on the day we decided to file for divorce, I'm afraid what I have to tell you requires us both refraining from killing each other for a while."

"Oh, I don't know if you're capable of sitting through a normal conversation without yelling or throwing heavy objects." Rossi said, once again poking fun at Carolyn.

"You're right. But trust me when I say this conversation will be far from normal… Come in please." Carolyn said gesturing towards the inside of her home.

"I see you've developed manners over the years, impressive."

"Sit and shut up, Dave."

" Done." Rossi said taking a seat across from Carolyn in the living room.

Carolyn rolled her eyes as she began thinking of a way to open the conversation.

"Look, I know what I have to say I just don't know how to say it."

"Carolyn, whatever it is just say it. I have a job to get to." Rossi said with a slight hint of frustration evident in his voice.

"Dave, we have a daughter." Carolyn said as she watched Dave lose the color in his face.

"Wow Carolyn you're more delusional then I thought." Rossi said as he began to stand.

"I'm not kidding, Dave."

"This is sickening."

Rossi had already begun to leave; he headed straight for the door. He couldn't believe Carolyn's nerve to make up something like that. He had a busy and stressful life that last thing he needed was his first wife coming back into his life just to toy with his brain.

"Dave, wait." Carolyn said as she grabbed the picture of the brunette on her desk. She ran towards Rossi and caught him just as he reached for the door knob. She put the picture at eye level for Rossi to see.

"This is her!" Carolyn yelled just as Rossi was getting ready to push her off him.

Rossi stood in shock as he stared at the picture in front of him. The resemblance the young lady in the picture had to him was astonishing,

Rossi reached for the picture and held it as he continued to stare.

"Please, let me explain. Don't leave." Carolyn finally broke the silence. She held on to Dave's arm as she guided him back to the living room.

They both took a seat in their respective places.

"God, where do I begin?" Carolyn said nervously as she stared around the room trying to avoid eye contact with her ex-husband.

"How about the beginning?" Rossi said as he leaned over as if it would help him understand her word more clearly.

"Well, two months after our divorce I found out I was pregnant. I hated you so much at the moment that I decided not to tell you anything. I never felt we needed you so I raised her on my own; I dedicated my life to her." Carolyn said as tears began to build up in her eyes.

"So why are you telling me now then?" Rossi said still trying to make sense of what she was saying.

"Because she's going to need you now more than ever."

"Oh, so this is about money?" Rossi said.

"Of course not. Why must you think everything is always about money?

"Well isn't that why you married me? For my money?"

"Maybe, but that's not the point." Carolyn said as she nervously took a deep breath. "I realized she needs you. She needs a father. All this time I thought she was better off without you. I've never really spoken about you to her. She knows absolutely nothing about you yet she grew up to be just like her father. She just graduated from Florida State, she got her degree in Criminal Justice and she wanted to join the marines right out of high school, but I couldn't let her."

"Oh god. So what's her name?" Rossi let out a small chuckle.

" Serena Alessandra. I'm planning on telling her all about you tomorrow when she gets back. And I guess the main reason I asked you over was to know if you want anything to do with her. I'd hate to tell her about you just to find out you never wanted her, it would break her heart." Carolyn explained.

"Of course, Carolyn! What kind a man do you think I am to reject my own daughter! I still don't understand why you didn't tell me as soon as you found out about your pregnancy; you know I would've done anything to take care of you and my daughter…"

"I already told you. I hated you too much at the moment. I know it was wrong, I was young and foolish. I thought hiding your daughter from you would get me the revenge I was looking for. But now I realize I'm only hurting my daughter. Oh, god. She is going to hate me when I tell her." Carolyn said rubbing her hands together.

"Well just make sure you tell her as soon as she gets back and once you do have her call me, I'd love to meet her." Rossi said standing.

"Please don't be mad at me for this, Dave." Carolyn pleaded.

"I'm not mad. I should be, but right now I'm just excited about the news… I have a daughter."

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