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firmly.
    “ Speaking of your wife, isn’t it against the law for her to give out her students’ personal information?”
    She had a lot of nerve, accusing Bobbi. “You knew this would happen when you put him in her class.”
    “ Oh, I expected you.”
    “ Then you know why I’m here.” Chuck’s jaw tensed. Now the fight began.
    “ Of course. This is the part where you demand to know if Jack is your son.”
    “ Is he?”
    “ No.”
    “ You’re lying.” Wasn’t she?
    “ Am I?” She smiled and crossed her arms across her chest.
    “ His birth date is nine months after we were together.”
    “ That doesn’t mean anything.”
    “ He looks like me.”
    “ He is much cuter, much more handsome than you are.”
    Chuck rolled his eyes at her uncharacteristically juvenile jab. “You named him Charles. I don’t believe that’s a coincidence.”
    “ What if he is your son?” She dropped her arms and leaned forward. Her charm evaporated, and her eyes narrowed. “What are you going to do about it?”
    He didn’t have an answer. He came over here denying that the boy was his, but if —since — he was, what was his plan? He glanced at Gavin and before he knew what was happening, words were spilling out. “I’m going to be his dad.”
    “ His dad?” Tracy mocked. “Two days ago, you didn’t know he existed, and suddenly you have all these paternal instincts?”
    “ He needs a dad.”
    “ No, he doesn’t!” Tracy pointed at Chuck. “He doesn’t need you, and I don’t need you!”
    “ Why did you put him in Bobbi’s class if you didn’t want me to find out? You’re not making any sense.”
    Tracy walked toward the front door. “You know, Chuck, you made it very clear you didn’t want anything to do with me when you blew me off.”
    “ Blew you off?” Chuck exploded off the sofa, catching up with her in two strides. “I ended an extramarital affair with you! Then you sued me!” He felt Gavin’s hand on his shoulder, pulling him back.
    “ I think you’re through here,” Gavin said with quiet strength.
    Chuck twisted away from him. “Wait a minute. If you’d followed through with the suit, I would have found out you were pregnant. That’s why you dropped the lawsuit, isn’t it?”
    Tracy jerked the front door open. “Go home, Chuck. Go back home to your perfect wife, your perfect sons and your perfect little girl, and leave me and Jack alone.”
    “ This isn’t over. I’ll find out the truth about Jack.”
    “ You do that,” she replied. “Mr. Heatley, goodnight.”
    “ Ms. Ravenna,” Gavin said with a slight nod as he shepherded Chuck through the door.
    “ This is not over!” Chuck called as Tracy slammed the door behind him. He clenched his fists and half moaned, half yelled, “How could she do this to me?”
    “ She had no compunction about committing adultery. It’s no stretch that she would lie to you about something this big.”
    “ But why? Nearly destroying my marriage wasn’t enough! She had to get pregnant and then use that against me.” He jerked his car door open and dropped in the driver’s seat. His pulse pounded in his neck, and Gavin had barely closed his door before Chuck pulled away from the curb. “She set me up.”
    “ How do you know she did this on purpose?”
    “ Because that’s how she is!”
    “ Maybe she is, but every kind of birth control can fail. This may have been an unplanned pregnancy.”
    “ Nothing that woman does is unplanned.”
    “ All right, so she intended to get pregnant. She obviously doesn’t want anything from you.”
    “ It’s not about what she wants! It’s about what this is going to do to my wife!” That crushing squeeze returned to his chest. “I have to walk in my house, look Bobbi in the eye ...”
    His vision blurred as tears welled up in his eyes. He paid for this sin already - six long months of separation from his wife, counseling and more counseling. “I gotta, I gotta pull over,” he murmured, and