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but the perfect way to show him too. I have been keeping a scrap-book of Brody and all of his greatest moments playing baseball. I started working on it all the way back in middle school.
Settling on a glider on the front porch, I pull Aiden into my lap and open the book. “Mommy wants to talk to you about someone important, so listen closely okay?” He places his tiny fingers on the first page.
“Dat ball,” he says.
“Yes, ball very good. Do you see the boy in the picture, Aiden? He is your dad. Do you know what a daddy is?”
“Aiden play ball.”
“Yeah, Aiden plays ball, like his daddy.”
I continue showing him the pictures, explaining the best I can that he will be getting to meet his daddy soon. I hope. He falls asleep in my lap. I hear Turner’s car coming up the street. He approaches the porch, seeing Aiden slumped in my arms he takes him from me and puts him in his bed.
He rejoins me on the porch and takes a seat beside me.
“So I want to understand Darby, before I put my heart out to you anymore than it already is. I want to know more about your situation with Brody and where you stand with him. Whatever this is between us, has taken over my world. I want to be here for you and Aiden but I need to know what I am walking into.”
I explain to him how I had planned on putting Aiden up for adoption. Holding nothing back, I tell him all about my life growing up. How my dad had given up everything to raise me. Don’t get me wrong, had my dad not had his job in the coal mines, he would not have been able to provide for me the way he had. My dad gave up a lot when he married my mother. They were young and dumb. They ended up resenting one another after marrying so young. I didn’t want to doom me and Brody to their fate. I wanted a better life for both of us and I loved him enough to let him go. I explain about Marla’s drinking, it split my family up. I don’t want to raise a child in that environment. During my confession to Turner, I also realize that I don’t have to be with Brody to raise Aiden with him.
Continuing with my story I tell him about the emails Brody would send and how hard it was to hear that he had gotten married. He was living his dream, even got drafted to his favorite team, the Red Jackets. I knew I couldn’t come back to him after a year and tell him he had a son, he was newly married and starting his career. Everyone would have thought I was after his money. Then another year passed and now another. There never was a right time to tell him. How could I after all this time has passed.
I’m still not sure now is the best time to tell him. He has always had a drinking problem. I worry about Aiden having to grow up the way I did, with my mom’s drinking problem.
Telling him he has a son I have kept from him, may push him over the edge.
“Are you still in love with him?”
“I don’t know, I thought I was until you came into my life. Now I don’t know if it’s that I love him because he is Aiden’s father, or because I really am in love with him. This conversation isn’t fair to you.” I wrap my hair in my fingers and twirl it. “Then there is the fact that you are my boss. I don’t want people to think I am screwing my way into becoming a spotlight dancer. I don’t deserve you Turner, but lord knows I want you anyways.”
“Let’s take it one day at time. I don’t do relationships well, but I am willing to try for you.” We spend a few more hours talking about his role in the club. He is really excited about a meeting he has set up in Vegas next month with a big casino. Turner has been put in charge of negotiating a deal with the casino to open a Masquerade Club in their building. If he lands the deal, the franchise owner of the club says he will make Turner a partner of the Miami club and give him full control over it. This is a really big deal for him. This is why we need to be even more careful with our relationship, now more than ever.
“When are you
Settling on a glider on the front porch, I pull Aiden into my lap and open the book. “Mommy wants to talk to you about someone important, so listen closely okay?” He places his tiny fingers on the first page.
“Dat ball,” he says.
“Yes, ball very good. Do you see the boy in the picture, Aiden? He is your dad. Do you know what a daddy is?”
“Aiden play ball.”
“Yeah, Aiden plays ball, like his daddy.”
I continue showing him the pictures, explaining the best I can that he will be getting to meet his daddy soon. I hope. He falls asleep in my lap. I hear Turner’s car coming up the street. He approaches the porch, seeing Aiden slumped in my arms he takes him from me and puts him in his bed.
He rejoins me on the porch and takes a seat beside me.
“So I want to understand Darby, before I put my heart out to you anymore than it already is. I want to know more about your situation with Brody and where you stand with him. Whatever this is between us, has taken over my world. I want to be here for you and Aiden but I need to know what I am walking into.”
I explain to him how I had planned on putting Aiden up for adoption. Holding nothing back, I tell him all about my life growing up. How my dad had given up everything to raise me. Don’t get me wrong, had my dad not had his job in the coal mines, he would not have been able to provide for me the way he had. My dad gave up a lot when he married my mother. They were young and dumb. They ended up resenting one another after marrying so young. I didn’t want to doom me and Brody to their fate. I wanted a better life for both of us and I loved him enough to let him go. I explain about Marla’s drinking, it split my family up. I don’t want to raise a child in that environment. During my confession to Turner, I also realize that I don’t have to be with Brody to raise Aiden with him.
Continuing with my story I tell him about the emails Brody would send and how hard it was to hear that he had gotten married. He was living his dream, even got drafted to his favorite team, the Red Jackets. I knew I couldn’t come back to him after a year and tell him he had a son, he was newly married and starting his career. Everyone would have thought I was after his money. Then another year passed and now another. There never was a right time to tell him. How could I after all this time has passed.
I’m still not sure now is the best time to tell him. He has always had a drinking problem. I worry about Aiden having to grow up the way I did, with my mom’s drinking problem.
Telling him he has a son I have kept from him, may push him over the edge.
“Are you still in love with him?”
“I don’t know, I thought I was until you came into my life. Now I don’t know if it’s that I love him because he is Aiden’s father, or because I really am in love with him. This conversation isn’t fair to you.” I wrap my hair in my fingers and twirl it. “Then there is the fact that you are my boss. I don’t want people to think I am screwing my way into becoming a spotlight dancer. I don’t deserve you Turner, but lord knows I want you anyways.”
“Let’s take it one day at time. I don’t do relationships well, but I am willing to try for you.” We spend a few more hours talking about his role in the club. He is really excited about a meeting he has set up in Vegas next month with a big casino. Turner has been put in charge of negotiating a deal with the casino to open a Masquerade Club in their building. If he lands the deal, the franchise owner of the club says he will make Turner a partner of the Miami club and give him full control over it. This is a really big deal for him. This is why we need to be even more careful with our relationship, now more than ever.
“When are you
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