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Rylenn

"She's 7 now.. She just learned how to ride a bike and she's finally eating hamburgers " She chuckles showing me picture of her daughter. Kapri is her name. "She looks just like him" I say. It was hard to admit. I wanted to accuse her of trapping him so bad, but I couldn't she had the receipts, she had everything to back her shit up.

"Its too bad he'll never know about her" She mumbled locking her phone, I stared at her puzzled. "What? No no he has to know about her--" "Why? He's in college he's in a relationship with you.. For the past couple days we've been hanging out and I'm not gonna lie, the way he was spending time with me.. It was almost like you didn't exist in my head. If he didn't tell me about you I would've told him about Kapri" She admits. I gulped back the vomit from escaping from my mouth.

"I don't even know why I came here..." She shakes her head. I was being selfish think it was okay and it's completely her choice what she does with her child. He deserved to see his child, as much as it made me sick to my stomach that he even had one.

"Vincent has been the love of my life for so long that I've grown to understand how good of a guy he is. I also know how understanding he is, how caring he is. If anyone deserves it, He deserves to know... I'm not gonna lie this might be the end of us.. but I cant be the one to keep him away from his daughter" Gulping back tears, I wiped my watering eyes. "If you want I can tell him with you"

"You'd do that?" She asked confused. "I know, I'm being too nice.. but I'm a girls girl". Before I knew it she was embracing me. I embraced her, tears running down my face. If only it wasn't a bad thing to be selfish.

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The party has ended, I allowed them the chance to talk over the news together as parents as I drowned my sorrows in Casamigo's. Vincent drove me to my hotel, he parked the car in the parking spot turning off his car. It was silent.

"I know this isn't what you came down here for--" I cut him off  "Shut up" I shook my head "You know, this whole time I thought you had been cheating on me. I thought I was gonna come down here and fight some hoe and break up with you dramatically but instead it was this" I laughed a little. "Instead I find out you have a 7 year old little girl,Who doesn't even know who you are and you're the one who said you wanted this"

"I said I wanted it yes, but I was 16, I was stupid. It was before we even started talking" He mumbled "And she was a really good friend of mine, she trusted me but after that night she never spoke to me again so I never even got the chance to find out"

I shook my head in disbelief that this is even happening. I couldn't even look at him, I felt guilt and embarrassment for him and it wasn't even my issue.

"Ry just let me know what you wanna do. If you don't wanna be together anymore because of this I get it but.. I don't know if that's what I want" He says. To be fair I didn't know what I wanted. All I have ever know was him. Vincent is my best friend I couldn't imagine not wanting him. But something needed to be done.

"I don't want it either, but maybe we need to take a break. You can have time to meet your daughter and find a connection." I say. I watch him nod. "And what about us?"

"If the stars align..Maybe we can pick up where we left off"

"You don't mind being somebody's step mom?" He asked making me laugh. I couldn't take that serious for some reason "you know Ry love the kids baby"

Vincent gets out the car and goes to my side to open the door for me moments later. He insisted on walking me up to my hotel room. We stood in the hallway for a few "You're going back to Atlanta?"