Gunner had me off his lap and walking into the house faster than I even knew what hit me. As we walked by Josh and Heather were so deep in conversation they did not even notice us walking by.
Gunner and I made our way down to the master bedroom. Would I always feel so nervous with him? Just the thought of making love to him had my stomach doing flips.
“Oh my god…. does it just keep getting better Gunner?” I said as I lay across his chest trying to catch my breath.
He let out a laugh as he stroked my back with his hand……up and down. God it felt so good.
“I have a feeling it is going to be even better when we are married. ”
I pushed myself up and looked down at him. He smiled at me but I could tell something was wrong.
“Gunner, what’s going on with Jefferson?”
He let out a sigh. “Fuck Ellie, I can’t be the one to tell you. I don’t want to be the one to tell you. ”
Oh no…. it was bad. Did something happen with the property? One of his horses or oh god Ari’s horse?
“Gunner…I saw the look on his face. It’s big…. tell me what is going on. ”
Gunner moved me off of him and sat up.
“Ellie you cannot tell Ari a word of what I am about to tell you. Promise me baby you won’t say anything. ”
Oh holy shit. Maybe I didn’t want to know.
“Um, okay. I promise you Gunner. I won’t say a word. ”
“Jeff needs to find out some shit before he talks to Ari about this. ”
“Okay…. ”
“I mean it all could turn out to not even be true. ”
“GUNNER! Just tell me!”
He ran his hands through his hair…. . . oh god how I wanted to do that…. . . oh gosh focus Ellie…. . focus……
“Jeff got a call about forty five minutes ago from Rebecca. The girl he slept with that night at your graduation party. ”
“Okay…what did she want?”
“I guess Jeff hooked up with her the weekend before Thanksgiving. Ran into her at Rebels and ended up fucking her in his truck that night. ”
Nice……not the image I wanted in my head right now.
I just nodded and he kept talking.
“Well, anyway, she just called him and told him she was seven months pregnant and the baby was his. ”
Mother fucking son of a bitch. NO!
“Oh no! No Gunner no! This is going to destroy Ari! Why didn’t he use protection?”
“He swears he did, he told her it was impossible but she said something about finding a piece of condom in her underwear later that night. But Jeff said he was not drunk and when he took the condom off it was not broke. ”
“Then she’s lying Gunner. She has to be lying!”
“Jeff thinks she is but the only way to find out for sure is to wait until the baby is born and take a paternity test. ”