20. Chapter 20

My Sweet Posie,

It's a boy. I forgot those results came in too. When she had all that testing done, and they did the DNA stuff, the results came back for the gender. I guess I was too caught up in the results proving I was a going to be a father to really think about the rest of it.

Beth has been planning.

She still wants to get married.

I can't do it.

She threatened to keep the baby from me if I don't marry her. Unfortunately for her, my best friend is a lawyer, so that won't work out too well for her. Her father was thrown off the force. He was offered a chance to take his retirement, but his ego kept him from accepting that generous offer. He's lost everything now because other men came forward to say his daughter ruined them, too. I think they're lucky now. It was only their careers she ruined. I'm the one stuck having a kid with her. She ruined my life and I'm so fucking angry.

Travis, my friend who is the DA here, says that we can use everything from her father's trial to establish her pattern of destructive behavior. I'm not sure what that will do with the family courts when the time comes, but we're hopeful that it will mean that majority of custody will go to me, at the very least.

She doesn't know about my plans, obviously. She still thinks she can threaten me and convince me that marriage is our only option.

I'm still hopeful, Posie.

Maybe, one day soon, I can come home.

Always Yours,

Max