She slowly opens her eyes and frowns. “What’s wrong?” She rubs her eyes.
“If I tell you, you can’t say a thing. I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” I confide, and Sarah creases her eyebrows.
“I’m not going to like this, am I?”
I shake my head. “Mike…”
“Yeah?” she questions.
“He’s Aiden’s dad!”
She’s silent for a moment. “What do you mean?”
“Mike is Aiden’s biological father… and to top it off… Aiden doesn’t know.”
“What the fuck?” Sarah booms louder than expected as she sits bolt upright in the bed staring at me. “Are you serious?”
“Deadly! Mike let it slip accidentally when we were alone in the room. Now I know, and I can’t stop thinking about it.”
“Jesus, this is fucked… Aiden needs to know,” Sarah exclaims.
“I know. I tried to tell Mike that, but he thinks it’s better left the way it is. I don’t even know if I can face Aiden tomorrow. How am I supposed to keep something of this magnitude from him? If it were me, I’d want to know. Sure, I’d be pissed, but at least I’d know.”
Sarah caresses my cheek. “Maybe we can have a chat with Mike in the morning. See if we can knock some sense into him?”
“Yeah. That’s what I’m going to have to do because this is a secret I don’t think I can keep.”
I wake suddenly to Ethan jumping on the bed. “Daddy, get up,” he yells as he lands on my legs.
“Oww! Damn kid, you’re getting too heavy,” I grumble as I bring my hand up to my pounding head.
“Ethan, let Daddy sleep,” I hear Sarah whisper.
I turn my head to look at Sarah, and she’s smiling at me.
“I want Daddy to play with Brody and me,” Ethan whines, and Sarah giggles.
Fuck, I love that sound!
“Daddy had a big night and needs some more sleep, baby. Why don’t you go find Brody and play together? Just be careful on the stairs,” Sarah advises and lets him go.
He jumps up and runs out of the room. I exhale and place my forearm over my eyes.
“How you doing over there?” Sarah asks as I hear one of the twins start to cry.
“I feel like shit. I’m hungover, but more importantly, I’m stressed out about this whole Mike thing. I have no idea what to do,” I admit.
“We need to talk to Mike. Get everything out in the open… then you need to be there for Aiden ‘cause this is going to turn his world upside down.?
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I nod and exhale loudly.
This fucking sucks!
“Okay, well obviously, Aiden and Jeni are up ‘cause the baby has stopped crying. I’m going to go find Mike,” I say.
“Do you want me to come?” Sarah asks, as Ella gurgles and wakes.