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The Verdict
Chapter 4
LivvyWriter
"I'm a...a.....a what?" Jason was so shocked that he couldn't think straight. He wavered a bit in his spot. His cheeks were flushed. His mind was so full
of questions. 'When had this happened? Hadn't they been careful? Was Courtney happy about this?'
"I think she said that you're going to be a daddy" Sonny said, boring his eyes into Courtney. He couldn't decide if he was happy about his baby sister getting pregnant or not. He was leaning towards not.
"I'm gonna be a daddy?" Jason asked Courtney, clearly thunderstruck at the notion.
'This couldn't be true could it?' He asked himself. 'Could he possible become a father?'
"Yea Jase, you are" She raked a manicured hand through her elbow length, blonde, silky hair. She sighed.
"Are you positive?" He asked, afraid that she was just guessing. Crazy as that was, Jason couldn't think straight.
"Hold on." Courtney said as she walked towards the back of the penthouse.They could hear her shuffling through cabinets.
She came back with a plastic, zip-lock, sandwich bag. She handed it over to Jason. Jason took it dumbfounded. Again she did the thing she did when she was nervous; she pushed her hand through her hair.
He looked inside to see a white stick with a plus sign on it. It was pink. He recognized it as a pregnancy test.
"I'm positive" She whispered, bringing her big blue eyes to face his sparkling ones.
"I'm, I'm gonna be a father." He said, finally getting the idea. Realization hit him hard. He felt like he was floating, nothing could bring him down.
"Yea Jase, you are. I was going to tell you on the night of the... of the incident." She bowed her head, thinking Jason was unhappy about the baby.
Jason's face suddenly lit up with joy. He lifted Courtney's chin. She looked into his eyes and saw pure bliss. Her mouth lifted up into a smile, slowly growing into something that filled her beautiful face. He grabbed Courtney and spun her around several times.
"Uh Jase, I'm glad your happy but I think I'm gonna puke!" She ran to the bathroom while the men stood there, slowly grasping the concept.
"Uncle Sonny," Sonny pretended to ponder that for a moment, "Sounds damn good to me!" Sonny said, stepping forward to bring the father-to-be into a hug.
Courtney walked back in to the room and went to stand beside Jason. Jason wrapped his arm around his wife, beaming.
"This is great news-"Sonny was interrupted by the ringing of his cell phone.
He flipped it open. He was obviously agitated at the person who called to break up this cheerful moment.
"Yea" His face softened a little bit.
"Yea, that's him." Sonny said
"Great!" Sonny's face lit up.
"Alright, we'll meet you at your office." His face was still beaming with joy.
"Yea, We. Me, Jason, Courtney and Lucky."
"Bye" He said as he flipped it shut.
"Who was that?" Courtney asked.
"My lawyer, my new lawyer. I got a new one for this so no one could possibly find out about this. His name is Gerald Cunnings and he's got an amazing reputation for getting people off. He found some background info on Python Paul. He said the case was already in the bag. We're going to meet him at his office downtown in about an hour."
"Alright!" Courtney said more enthusiastically then they had heard from her since before the incident.
"Let me go change real quick. I feel uncomfortable in these clothes." She fingered her red quarter-length top. She shifted uncomfortably in her Khaki skirt. She turned to go change. They watched her until she was out of sight.
"Lucky, are you sure you want to come with us?" Sonny asked.
"Yea, I'm going to bring Bella's killer down." His face turned to stone, only the expression of anger was shown through his usually joyful eyes.
Lucky looked from Sonny to Jason to see if there was any objections. There were none.
Lucky asked himself what he would do if Courtney had been Isabel. If Courtney had been the one to get shot on the most important day in a young unmarried woman's life.
Lucky felt a pain of rage come over him. 'If Courtney had been the one to have died, Jason wouldn't have been standing here today. He would've killed every creep that had ever touched a hair on Courtney's beautiful head. He would have....' His thoughts were interrupted by his Courtney walking back in.
She had tight blue jeans on. Her shirt was a pink tank top with white lace trimming the neckline. Her hair was styled into a French braid. Jason's anger slowly faded away.
"Let's go boys" She said. They followed her out the door. They saw a tall, young, handsome man blocking their paths out of the door. A small woman with fiery red hair stood beside him.
He brought out a shiny badge with a name, Larson McGeysols. Besides him, his partner drew out her badge with the name of Lorelei Hall.
Lorelei ran her hand through her hair the way Courtney did. The only difference was that she wasn't doing it because she was nervous. She was doing it because she was excited. Her mischievous green eyes found Lucky and didn't leave him until her partner began to talk.
"You're not going anywhere Mrs. Morgan. You're under arrest."
