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she asked, “Who the fuck was she?”
     
    Rico stood speechless for a moment. A part of him wanted to tell it. However, telling it wasn’t a part of the rules. He’d probably have to take this one to the grave with him. “Baby, it was the wrong number.” He attempted to explain.
     
    Mona reached back and before he knew it, she’d slapped his ass again. “See, that’s why I can’t stay here. You couldn’t tell the truth if your life depended on it.” She closed up the baby tote packed with Caylin’s clothes, and then leaned down and grabbed her suitcase. She held the baby tote in one hand and pulled the luggage by the handle with her other hand as she walked outside to her car. Rico sadly stood in the doorway watching her put the things in the trunk. Not five minutes later, she was walking back inside the house. As she attempted to pass him, he stopped her.
     
    “Wait a minute,” he desperately begged. “Please, don’t go. Don’t take my baby.” He pleaded, but this time with tears coming down his face. It was evident that he loved her, but she was distraught from learning that he’d been fucking with another.
     
    “Turn me loose, Rico.” She said as she gently snatched away from him and headed down the hall and into the master bedroom. She grabbed her Coach purse along with a few other small items like her earrings and her watch, then tossing her Secret deodorant inside of her purse. She scanned the room quickly with Rico standing there feeling helpless.
     
    “Baby, please don’t go,” he begged like that was the only phrase he knew.
     
     Mona pushed passed him and headed for Caylin’s bedroom again. She looked over in the white bassinet that Aiden slept peacefully in, and then leaned over to plant a soft kiss on his cheek.
     
    “I’ll get her,” Rico sadly said walking over to Caylin’s crib and picking her up. He sniffed the sweet smell of his little one as he kissed her softly on the head. She nearly fit in one hand since she was still so small and precious. He hated to see his woman leaving him the way she was. Mona didn’t even look at him. She just walked out of the house with him slowly dragging his steps behind her. Once out to the car, it hit her that she was actually leaving. She wanted to cry, but she couldn’t, at least not in front of him. The shock of it all still had her caught up in her feelings.
     
    “Please just think about this first.” He begged as he stood there holding Caylin close to his chest.
     
    “Who was she?” Mona questioned again hoping he’d come clean.
     
    “Babe, it was the wrong number,” he lied again.
     
    “Give me my baby,” Mona said reaching for Caylin and practically making him hand her over. As Caylin continued to sleep peacefully, Mona buckled her safely in her car seat, and then she got in the car too. She looked up to see Rico standing at the back window watching Caylin with the saddest eyes ever. Before she could close the door, he grabbed the top of it to stop it from shutting.
     
    “You don’t have to leave,” he sorrowfully said.
     
    “Get off of my door,” Mona said and closed the door shut. If he hadn’t moved his hand fast enough it would’ve been closed inside it. She backed out of the driveway, leaving him standing in the yard looking and feeling sick. As she neared the stop sign the tears began to stream down her face. Once there she completely stopped and cried as the pain of betrayal stabbed her over and over again in her heart.
     
    Rico was passed the boyfriend stage. He had become her fiancé and nothing hurt her worse than him feeling like she wasn’t woman enough for him. Finally, after sitting at the stop sign for five minutes, and hearing the car’s horn behind her blowing, she wiped her face and pulled off. She didn’t know what the future held for her relationship with her daughter’s father, but right now it was nothing.
     

Chapter 3
    Kina knocked on the hotel door at the Sheraton Inn. She tapped