A Debt Paid

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Authors: Joslyn Black
you
will be at the time of our wedding.”
    Coming out of her brief stupor, she
placed her hand over her stomach and
looked up to Calix. “What?”
    “Fertile,” he said slower. “I may have
just impregnated you. And, if I have and if
you choose not to marry me, I will take full
custody of my child.”
“No.” She breathed rapidly as her
breaths started to speed up in panic.
    “I’m giving you till four o’clock to
make your decision. You want your
attorney to look over the papers, fine, but
it’s pretty useless, because I’m not going to
change anything. I need to hand these
papers into my attorney before five
o’clock.” As he sat there and watched her,
she was in her own world. It was obvious
she was in shock. She came in here thinking
she was going to take charge, and she was
coming to terms with the fact that she had
no control in anything, nor would she ever.
He saw a tear escape her eye. Calix didn’t
want to be a bastard, but he’d wanted her
for years, and when he’d made his move,
she rejected him like a piece of trash. So,
when he saw an opportunity to have her,
he took it. And, there was no going back for
him, not now.
    Blinking rapidly, Anya came back
from her daze. You could hear the defeat in
her voice. “There is no point, is there?” She
looked at him and saw him shaking his
head. More tears escaped her eyes as she
sifted to the last page of the pre-nup and
signed. There, she thought, I’ve signed my
life away. She was now worse off than her
mother; at least, her mother had loved her
father in the beginning. All she felt for Calix
at the moment was hatred of the acutest
kind. She stood up, closing her eyes as she
winced a little at the slight pain between
her legs when she moved.
    “My mother got your flowers. She
didn’t understand what Monday stood for,
and I didn’t want her finding out, so I told
her the first thing I thought of. I told her it
was a friend thanking her for the invite I
gave them for dinner on Monday. She’s
fussed around all weekend, because I’ve
never brought anyone home. So, please join
me at my parents’ house for dinner, and if
can’t make it, send a note of apology. If she
thought this was fake for a minute or found
out I was doing this for her, it would break
her.” Her face was emotionless with eyes
that were dead as she spoke; the sparkle of
heat and passion he had seen in them was
gone.
“I’d be happy to join you all for
dinner,” he said softly.
    Anya didn’t bother with a goodbye.
She just turned to leave, and he let her. He
knew she needed to wrap her head around
the new life she had waiting for her.
Chapter 5
    Once Anya was fully ensconced in
her car, the floodgates opened, and she
sobbed inconsolably. She’d arrived with a
game plan that she was going to get some
control. Instead, she lost it and her
virginity. She still didn’t know how to feel
about what happened. Whether they were
getting married or not; he had forced
himself on her, which was wrong and
painful. Then somehow it felt so good she
even had an orgasm. Wasn’t it wrong to feel
enjoyment in that situation? Did it make
her sick for enjoying it in the end? Similar
questions continued to assail her.
    He’d been right; she hated herself
right now for having enjoyed it. He’d also
used no protection, and she was in the
middle of her cycle. What if she did get
pregnant from this? What were the odds?
She was so mixed up she didn’t know what
to feel. One minute he was hard and cold,
then he was tender. She couldn’t believe he
had washed her, such an intimate thing to
do, but after he was finished he was cold
again. How could she feel hatred towards
him for what he had done and then feel a
small smidge of wanting for the same
reason?
    Calix said he was not the one
threatening her mother, so he wasn’t a
total monster. He assured his wedding gift
would be to help get her mother away from
her father, but she was so mixed up with

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