won’t tell a soul.” Kay wrapped her arm around Paige’s shoulders. “Are you and the father going to get married?”
“No.”
“Is he already married?”
Paige gasped. “No, of course he’s not married.”
“Then what’s the problem? Is it that he doesn’t want to marry you or don’t you want to marry him?”
“He doesn’t know about the baby.”
“What? Why haven’t you told him?”
Paige closed the commode seat and slumped down, sitting before her trembling legs gave way. “You and I have become friends these last four months and I trust you, but—”
“Don’t tell me anything you don’t want me to know.”
“I’ve told my parents. My mother is the Rock of Gibraltar. My father has murder in his heart.” Paige laughed shakily. “They’ve promised to stand by me and help me get through the pregnancy. My mother’s agreed to take care of the baby until he or she is old enough for preschool. And with my salary and good insurance, I should be able to get by just fine.”
“Why haven’t you told the father?”
“Because…” Paige hesitated, wondering just how much she dared tell Kay. “I’ve had only one other lover. The college boyfriend I told you about, and we’d planned to get married. Things didn’t work out after he got a job in L.A. and met the girl of his dreams—the boss’s daughter. There hadn’t been anyone else since Kevin. Not until four months ago.”
“So, four months ago you started a new relationship and accidently got pregnant.”
“I didn’t start a new relationship,” Paige said. “I did something unthinkable. At least, it was unthinkable for someone like me.”
“What did you do?”
“I had a one-night stand with a stranger.”
“Oh, my God, Paige, you didn’t!”
“I’m afraid I did. We got trapped in the elevator that Friday night in June that Grand Springs lost its power.”
“You had sex with a perfect stranger in a stalled elevator?”
“Uh-huh.” Paige nodded her head.
“Then you have no idea who he is, the man who fathered your child? You never saw him again?”
“I saw him again. The following Monday morning.”
“The day you started work at Montgomery’s?”
“Yes.”
“He works here in the Wellman Building?” Kay asked.
“Yes.”
“For heaven’s sake, Paige, who is he?”
Paige hesitated a moment. “L. J. Montgomery.”
For once in her life, Kay Thompson was utterly speechless.
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