Toxic

Chapter 32

May 14th, 2020

Eight long days later, CJ had received an email from the diagnostics lab. He had yet to open it, scared that it would infinitively prove that he was a father. Kaiden was a cute little boy, he would never deny it, but he just hoped it wasn't his.

"Babe, open it. Whatever the results say we'll handle it together I promise" She rubbed his back as they sit in the kitchen at the island. Denver had made the both of them breakfast, and she was finishing off what was left on the stove. She was so greedy now, it was almost like she was eating for four people.

"You do it" He slid the phone to her, and she picked it up with no hesitation. The suspense was killing her and she wanted to know if Kaiden was in fact her step-son or not.

"Blah blah blah, the alleged father is excluded as the biological father of the tested child" Punching the air CJ stood up ready to hug Denver until she said something he never would've put together. "However, the probability of half-siblingship is 99.999998%"

"Well I'll be damned" Denver muttered

Too stunned to speak, CJ sat back down on the stool with his face frowned up. Shocked and angry, he immediately picked up his phone to call Carter.

"Yeah, we need to talk." Without even giving his father a chance to respond, he pressed the red button, ending the call at once.

"Baby, let's just talk about this before you do or say anything you're going to regret" She tried reasoning

"Regret? The only thing I'm 'bout to regret is my mama heart breaking all over again. I trusted him, he said he would never do this shit again bruh"

Like any other marriage, Carter and Kimberly had their downfalls, only in their marriage Carter was the one causing the downward spiraling. CJ was only the tender age of nine, but he was very intelligent for his young age. Many nights he heard his mother crying herself to sleep, and on those same nights Carter wasn't sleeping in their home. He heard his mother sobbing and hysterical on the phone with his aunt multiple times, Kimberly yelling constantly how could he? how could he do this to me? To our family? CJ was a daddy's boy no doubt, but at that very moment he began to sway towards his mother. He held her closer and began to hate his father, but with good reason.

It wasnt until a few days after that his father returned and he was confront by not his wife, but his only son. CJ wasnt afraid to display the hatred that lie deep within his loins for his father, but no matter how much she was hurting Kimberly never wanted her child to behave that way with Carter. That was his father as well as an adult, and what they were going through wasnt his responsibility to mediate. Many debilitating months went by, along with many sessions of therapy and the couple finally were getting back to themselves. CJ may have forgiven his father for his indiscretions, but he never forgot, he had been his mother's boy ever since.

"And I understand that, but that is your parents' business, you have your own family to worry about now. When everything falls, you just be there to catch your mother, thats all you need to do"

"Ok" He said simply. He had made up his mind, he was going to whoop his father's ass. The last time he was just a child and he knew he could never overpower him, but now he was a grown ass man... Carter was about to get a grown man ass whooping.

"Ok? Thats all you have to say?" If she didn't know anything else, she knew her husband.

"Yeah, I'm done with it" He shrugged as he threw another grape into his mouth.

Hours later....

Now close to 4pm, Carter was pulling into his parents' driveway. He noticed that his mother's car was gone, and figured that it was the perfect time to have this discussion with Carter.