Everything She Wanted

16 Orange-flavored Condoms

JAXX POV

We weren't able to stay long the second day at the beach. Ace's dad called because Cole was being "impossible" again and he said his mom needed help. That was his way of saying his son was having a meltdown and there was nothing much he could do because Cole only calmed down with Ace or his mom.

When I got home, I immediately called my friend, Leon. He has been texting me all morning about a very important matter that's going to change my future. It's been hanging over my head for a month now and I really hope he bears good news.

"Pare. Tell me it's not true." I told him the moment he picked up the phone.

"Yes, good morning, Jaxx, how can I help you?" he was teasing me. This was good news. No, this was the best news! It'd better be!

"Oh for fuck's sake, Leon! I've been dying for the past month!"

"Yeah, well that was all on you because you couldn't give me anything to work on."

"Puta, come on!" I growled.

"You still don't get it?" he laughed.

"Tang ina mo, if you were there I would have stabbed you already! I want to hear it, Leon, so there won't be any room for misinterpretation. What is it?"

"Okay! Okay." He laughed then fell silent.

"Leon, putang ina!!!"

He roared with laughter. He was finding my misery amusing! If he wasn't a very good friend I swear I would really kill him after I get what I wanted from him!

"It's not you. It's not yours." He managed to say between laughs.

"Thank fuck! Fuck... tang ina! Whew!" by back hit the bed as relief washed over me and I could finally breathe again.

"Did you really think it was yours? Yung totoo, Jaxx."

"Not really, but I had to be sure. The timeline didn't add up but she was hell-bent on pinning it on me."

"Guess she knew the father wouldn't own up and, well, you're a pretty good catch – gullible and financially loaded."

"Gullible? Tang ina, she didn't even fool me!"

"Not this time anyway. Ulol, libog mo kasi kaya ka nadamay. She knew you'd sleep with her so she had the perfect excuse." Leon pointed out. I hate to admit it, but he was not wrong. It was the same thing Ace said to me when I told him about Grace's pregnancy, that she said it was mine.

That shattered me because I was then I was falling for someone else, I was leaving for my MBA, and while I would easily man up and take on the responsibility of being a father, I wasn't completely convinced it was mine. After all, I did realize that I wasn't the only guy she was sleeping with. It was an assumption but I was pretty damn sure about it.