Disclaimer: All the events and character description taken place in this story is COMPLETELY FICTION. No copyright infringement intended. All characters are copy written to their respective owners. No profit is being made from this story. It should be viewed only as entertainment.

Chapter Thirty-Eight

"No Paul, there's nothing wrong with my baby." Stephanie replied after a moment of silence that felt like an eternity to him.

"Your baby? You mean our baby. That's my first born son." Paul said correcting his wife's wording as he pointed at her womb. Levesque loved hearing himself say that he had a son. He felt like a weight had just been lifted with her telling him that the baby was okay.

"No, he's not you son, Paul, he's Kurt's…" Steph muttered diverting her eyes as she dropped a huge bombshell on her unsuspecting husband. After giving the news, she closed her eyes awaiting Paul's reaction which would most definitely be rage.

"What? No, that's not true. We had sex the first night you came back home. You got pregnant that night. Don't you remember?" He asked trying to reason with his wife. Levesque moved toward Steph. She had to be mistaken because he knew it was his baby.

"I didn't know it but, I was already pregnant when we got back together. Kurt and I slept together…more than once while we were separated." Stephanie replied in a sort of a matter of fact tone of voice with an eyebrow raised ever so slightly.

"You had unprotected sex with him? More than once, Stephanie?"

"Oh please, like you've been the monogamy poster boy!" Steph scoffed.

"Well at least I didn't get Michelle pregnant! I bagged it with her!"

"Like that makes all the times you fucked that slut okay…"

"Forget Michelle, why didn't you tell me about this right when you found out you were pregnant? Huh?" Paul hollered placing his hands on his forehead.

Stephanie took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a moment before she began to explain her actions. For the first time in months she was going to actually tell Paul the truth about everything. She just didn't know if he was going to be able to handle it.

"I didn't want to say anything until I was one hundred percent sure who the father was. I wanted to have a CVS test in the twelfth week but the doctor said that because of my history with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, she didn't want to take any risks of me miscarrying. So I waited for an amino. I took a few of your hairs from your brush in the bathroom for a DNA sample and the test proved that you aren't the father." Stephanie explained calmly telling her husband the entire truth of the secret she had been keeping from him for five months.

Levesque felt like he was in a nightmare; one that seemed to have no end in sight. As ecstatic about the pregnancy he had been just a few moments ago, he was now disgusted by it. Now when he looked at his wife he only saw her infidelity with Kurt Angle. If he stayed with her, that child would be a constant reminder of it all. What if she didn't keep the baby? It after all didn't belong to her husband so why not give it up for adoption? Would Steph be willing to do that for him?

"Okay, um, it's too late for an abortion. So what about giving the kid up when you have him? I have to be perfectly honest, Steph. I can't see myself raising another guy's kid. Especially when they guy is Kurt Angle. So I want you to think about this long and hard. Think about what you really want. Do you want me, your husband and father of your daughter or Angle's baby? You can't have both. I'm not going to have that kid living in my house." Levesque said trying to keep his anger at bay while he served his wife with an ultimatum.

Stephanie let out a forced laugh. She couldn't believe how quickly his feelings about her unborn baby had changed once he found out that he wasn't his son. Was he serious? He actually expected her to choose him over her own unborn child? How could he even ask her to do that? What mother could? It didn't matter. Steph had already made up her mind and his reaction to it all only made her more steadfast in her position.

"You won't have to worry about my baby living in this house. I was wrong, Paul. I was wrong to come back to you for what I thought was the good of our daughter. I put what I thought was best for Aurora before what was best for me. I'm leaving you…And I'm taking Aurora with me."

"No, you're not leaving. You care too much about what we have together to destroy it."

"What he had together is gone, Paul. All the love I felt for you died when you chose to carry on with Michelle North. I was so in love with you. You got it into your head that I was cheating on you with Kurt-"

"Well you were! I was right! You have no right to bring up Michelle when you were screwing around with Angle behind my back! Look at you, you're walking prove of it!" Levesque yelled pointing his finger toward Stephanie's pregnant belly.

"Kurt and I were nothing but friends! I never had the opportunity to see him any other way until you pulled all your bullshit! He was there for me…and for Aurora too. I betrayed is love! And all this for Aurora when she's not even attached to you anymore! And you did that, Paul! Your behavior caused that!" Stephanie hollered letting everything that she had been keeping to herself for the past five months spill out.

"That's bullshit! She's going to be two in July, she doesn't know shit about what's going on between us! And don't you think you're taking my child away with you to Pittsburgh so you can shack up with the father of your bastard child!" Levesque retorted.

There was no way Paul was going to allow Steph to take their child away from him. She was trying to make it seem that Aurora didn't love him anymore and it was his fault. How could she try and make him think that about their twenty-one month old? She was trying to hurt him.

"Aurora adores Kurt. He's great with her. Besides, it's not like you won't see her. We'll get joint custody." Steph replied in a calmer tone of voice as she was now trying to reason with her upset husband. She really was tired of fighting.

"Angle's not her father, I am! Aurora deserves to have a complete family and I won't let you destroy it!" Paul yelled getting in his wife's face.

"You already destroyed us! I'm tired of trying to hold us together! It won't work anymore! This pregnancy has been all that's been keeping me alive these past five months! I even told my parents about the possibility of the baby being Kurt's! That's the only reason they were happy about the pregnancy! And I feel the same way! I have another child to think about now and it's Kurt and my chance at a new beginning and God damn it Paul, I'm going to take it!" Steph screamed back at him. She hated the fact that he was getting in her face almost like he was trying to intimidate her. It wasn't going to work.

"You fucking bitch!" Paul screamed as he pushed Stephanie back into the refrigerator. Steph winced as she hit her head on the hard metallic surface while her husband's hands were around her neck.

"You think you're going to leave me just like that? I sacrificed a lot to make us work! I had to give up my hot piece of ass and my top spot in the company! I've been swallowing shit from your father and the rest of your family and you never gave us a chance! You never even met me half way!" He screamed pushing her against the refrigerator a few more times as he hollered. He had lost it.

"What are you going to hit me, Paul? Are you going to kill my unborn baby like you killed ours? I will never forgive you for that!" Steph screamed back as she started crying as she grasped her pregnant abdomen almost like she was trying to shield her baby from his violent outburst the only way she could.

Her words were like daggers tearing and ripping at his heart. He closed his eyes and lowered his head like he was in physical pain. He removed his hands from her neck. She was now blaming the miscarriage on him. Did she really think that he wanted their unborn baby to die? Did Stephanie really think that he was that horrible of a husband and a father?

"That was an accident… I never wanted to hurt the baby or you…Can't we just have a fresh start? I know we can get through this if we love each other…" Paul muttered on the verge of tears. He slowly slumped to his knees on the kitchen floor; just like he had done on Thanksgiving at the McMahons' estate.

"There are no more fresh starts. I'm not in love with you anymore. I'm in love with Kurt and I want to have a fresh start with him, if he'll have me. Good bye, Paul." Stephanie whispered before she slowly walked out of the kitchen leaving her husband kneeling there in front of the refrigerator. His pleading didn't work this time. She had made the mistake once before of believing that she had to stay in the marriage for the sake of her young child.

When Paul heard the front door slam shut he rose to his feet and with all his might punched his right fist into the refrigerator door leaving a dent. It was the release of all the anger and hurt he had been trying to keep a lid on while he had his wife pinned up against the refrigerator. He was ashamed to admit it, but in his anger, he wished it would have been Stephanie's face that he had punched. That was terrible thing to think about your own wife and the mother of your child, but she had really hurt him.

Levesque had never expected to have the rug pulled out from under him when he had been riding so high as of late. Perhaps this was his returning karma for the bombshell he had to drop on Stephanie when she caught wind of his affair with Michelle. Still, Paul didn't think he deserved to be lied to for the past five months. If she really didn't love him, she wouldn't have come back. Her using the excuse of doing it for their child was complete bullshit. There was no way she had fallen out of love with him. The important thing was that she did come back to him, choosing her husband over Angle. Paul was chalking up the unexpected pregnancy with Kurt's kid as a reason for her separating from him. It was going to be only temporary, just until she could figure out what to do in her current predicament. He gave her no more than two months before she would come back home with Aurora. Their marriage wasn't ending; it had merely hit a speed bump.

Stephanie had already gotten herself and Aurora set up at her parents' house. While Paul was at SmackDown, her mother had come over to the house and helped her get some clothing together for the next few weeks. A quick phone call on her PDA was all she needed to report to her mother that she had confronted Paul and was on her way to Pittsburgh. She was nervous; even more so than just before breaking up with him on Thanksgiving. Her biggest fear was that Kurt wouldn't even talk to her and hear her out. She had broken his heart and caused such an imposition on his life. How was she even going to explain to him that she was carrying his child?

Before Steph knew it, she was in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania thanks to a quick jet flight. Stephanie was sitting up straight in the limo seat awaiting the driver to open her door. She had noticed cars in the driveway so she assumed Kurt was indeed at home. When the door opened, she slowly got out and began walking up the driveway.

Her walking pace quickly slowed when she saw Karen Angle walking briskly from the front door of the house with her matching designer purse on her shoulder. Karen was about to walk to her parked automobile when she saw Steph. Their eyes met only for a second before Karen's eyes shifted downward to Stephanie's pregnant abdomen which could be easily seen in the opening of her jacket. Steph knew she was staring right at the evidence of her affair with Kurt so she quickly pulled both sides of the jacket over her belly. This made Karen flash a look of disdain.

Did she know that the baby was Kurt's? Had she bought into the lie Paul had fed her? More importantly, why was she there? Karen had filed for divorce from him months ago. What if her and Kurt had reconciled? Stephanie felt sick to her stomach just thinking about the possibility of Karen and Kurt getting back together. Where would that leave her and most importantly, her unborn baby fathered by Kurt?