My eyes nearly popped out of my head as I sat up quickly with the phone glued to my ear.
"Hello? Y/N... I know you're there, I-I can hear your breathing."
"What in the hell gives you the right to call my phone?" My teeth were clean her tightly as I spoke to her. I had not heard from her since the day she went behind bars. Not even the day she had my son, nope. Once she delivered him, I was called in to take him home and that was it. No need for any communication whatsoever and I was perfectly fine with that.
"Seriously, how can you ask me that?"
"How? Shall we go through all the reasons you're sitting behind bars rotting as we speak!"
I guess my voice became a little too loud because I felt Courtney began to move around on the bed next to me.
"Ok Y/N I'm really not trying to argue with you. I just called to talk to my son."
"Oh your son? You're fucking out of your mind."
"And what's so wrong with me wanting to be in contact with him, huh? I fucking had him and he's mine-"
"Let me let you in on something Josie. You may have carried him and you may have had him, but that little boy is not yours. He is mine and I will never ever allow you to have any type of communication with my son for as long as I'm still breathing. Do you understand me?"
The other end of the line was completely silent for a moment and I was just about to hang up when;
"Really Y/N?" She cried making me roll my eyes, because I couldn't care any less about her fake tears. "This is how you treat the mother of you child?"
"No. This is how I treat someone who is a no good, predator. I'll be damn if I let you around my child so that you can poison his mind and make him as crazy as you are."
After saying my peace, I hung up in her face not even caring if she was finished talking or not because I was.
I let out a deep breath and shook my head as I ran my hands over my face.
"Babe, is everything ok?"
I just nodded not even bothering to look up. "It's fine. I'm sorry for waking you, go back to bed Court."
Suddenly I heard the bed moving and I felt soft hands on my back. "Don't tell me it's fine when I know it's not. Who was that on the phone?"
"Noah's "mother", if you can call her that."
"Mm ok, and what does she want?"
I shrugged. "Something she ain't gonna get."
Courtney gave me a look. "Sorry, she wants to talk to Noah and be in his life."
"And that's out of the question?"
"Absolutely." I could never in this lifetime or any other, see myself letting her spend one second with my son. After all the heartless things she's done to me, I couldn't imagine how she'd treat him. Or what she would teach him. So my plan has been, and forever will be to keep him far away from her.
"Well ok.. but if you don't mind me asking. Why is that?"
I looked over to her and that's when I suddenly realized that I had never told her about any of that before. She doesn't know that Josie raped me and then blackmailed me to keep my job.
The only person who knows is..
I cleared my throat. "Are you sure you wanna know?"
"What? Of course I want to know babe. But only if you want to tell me."
I nodded slowly. "Josie and I were never really a couple. She was the bosses daughter and I knew she had a thing for me.. but one day she came on to me, I didn't know what to do. A-and uh she told me that if I wanted to keep my job that I would do anything that she said."
As I spoke my eyes never left my hands. I don't know, I guess I was too ashamed to look anywhere else.
"Oh baby-you don't have to tell me anything more if you don't want to." Courtney spoke making me glance over at her.
"No. I want to. So umm this maybe dumb but I didn't have any choice at the time. I had Bria to take care of and I was hurting for money, I really needed my job. So I decided to just do whatever she said. That's when everything started.. she began making me have sex with her every day and night. She bought a house for me and moved herself in it. I couldn't escape her. But one day Ariana found out about it and she convinced me to press charges against her and her father's company. Now she's in jail on a stack of charges and I own what used to be her father's business."
"Wow."
"I know. I was so stupid."
Courtney grabbed the bottom of my chin making me face her. "No, Y/N you weren't stupid. You were a victim and Josie is right where she belongs."
"Yeah. I just hope that Noah doesn't start to resent me one day, for keeping him away from his mom." I sighed deeply.
"Listen, you have every right to do that. One day, once he's old enough he'll understand that you were only trying to protect him."
I looked over at her and smiled softly. "Thank you Courtney. For being here for me."
She smiled and ran her thumb across my cheek. "I'll always be here Y/N."
***
"Sissy, you come back!" Noah shouted as he got down from my lap and ran over to greet his sister.
Bria smiled and nodded. "Yes, finally."
"Hey there baby girl, did you have fun with mommy?"
I knew what her reply would be but I just always felt the need to ask.
"Um yes daddy, I did."
Once she said the my eyebrows furrowed up in confusion. Ever since she started going off with Elizabeth on the weekends, that has never once been her answer.
"You did?"
She nodded her head and walk past me going up the stairs to her room with Noah right on her heels.
"Did that seem weird to you?" I asked as I looked back at Courtney who was standing at the stove. "Was she acting abnormal?"
"Aw don't think too much into it Y/N. Maybe she's just finally getting along better with her mom."
I nodded slowly and shrugged. "Yeah, you're probably right."
I'll just let it go.. for now.
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