Deceit

Sweat beaded on Tracy’s face as she stared at her phone, her heart thundering in her chest. This could not be happening to her. Why on earth was this happening to her? She was a good person, and she did not deserve any of this at all. Okay, fine, she had made a mistake and was now lying to the man she loved, but she did not intend to saddle him with another man’s child. That did not mean that she deserved any of this. After all, she had plans to get rid of the pregnancy immediately after her wedding to Ryan and then start over on a clean slate with him. As she stood there, the phone began to ring in her hands.

“Hello.” She whispered into it tensely, even though she was alone in the house, except for the staff.

“Did you get my message?” Josh, her blackmailer’s voice came from over the phone. He sounded happy as hell, and who wouldn’t be, with the whooping sum of $20,000 that they hadn’t worked for sitting in their accounts, not to talk of a necklace that was even more in value than th