Chapter Sixteen
Everyone but Kevin gasped, even Lara and Nick. Lisa turned white. "Excuse
me?" She asked quietly. Lara swallowed deeply. She knew that when Lisa got
extremely upset she got quiet instead of loud.
"The baby is mine," Kevin repeated.
"Yours? Kevin…" Brian began, but his voice faded away.
Lisa looked from Kevin to Lara, whose face was covered with tears. "Was this
an ongoing thing or a onetime fling?" Lisa asked Kevin.
"Lucky, I…" Lara started.
"Shut…up." Lisa said without looking at her. "Well?"
"I've only been to her home once," Kevin said truthfully.
"Only at her home once…I see…" Lisa tried to think and a light bulb went
off. "Did you go to her apartment the night before you left for Europe?"
"Yes," Kevin answered, telling the truth once more.
"I see." Lisa finally looked at Lara. "I cannot believe this. My
boyfriend…and my best friend?"
"I'm sorry," Lara finally whispered. "You don't have to fire me. I quit
now." She gave Kevin a searching look, trying to figure out why in the world
he would put his career before his future with the woman who loved him so
much. "And you won't be hearing from me again…don't worry." She gave Nick a
look filled with so much pain, so much agony, that he had to look away.
"Goodbye." She ran from the room before anyone could stop her.
Kevin couldn't look up. He couldn't face anyone. He tried to desperately
tell himself that this was better for everyone. Better for Nick, obviously,
and better for Lara. If everyone thought they baby was his she would have to
leave and she wouldn't have to see or hear anything about Nick Carter. The
only people it wasn't better for were he and Lisa.
"Come on, guys, let's go out and start this party…make everything seem
normal." Howie slowly herded AJ and a shocked Brian out of the study.
"Lisa…"
"Don't." Lisa held a hand up. "Let me ask you one thing. Why? What wasn't
I giving you?"
"No, Lisa, it's not like that, I swear. You gave me everything I
needed…everything I could wish for," Kevin pleaded.
"Well, obviously that wasn't enough. Goodbye, Kevin." Lisa walked out the
door of the study, never looking back.
When Lara arrived at her apartment, she hurriedly began to throw things into
her suitcases. As she packed, she made plane and hotel reservations. She
was getting as far away from Nick Carter and the Backstreet Boys as she
possibly could.
Lisa sat on the floor of her bedroom, tucked into a ball. She tried to make
sense of this all, tried to make it fit, but nothing did. Kevin had betrayed
her. Lara had betrayed her.
Kevin went for a long drive, finally stopping at a cliff overlooking the
ocean. He climbed up onto a rock, staring for hours at the water but only
seeing the pain in Lisa's eyes.
Nick went back to his large empty house and opened the minibar. He drank for
five hours straight until he finally passed out.
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