From: polly122456@yahoo.com   
      
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   Title:  A Woman Scorned   
   Author:  Polly - Polly122456@yahoo.com   
   Category:  500 Words, Pre-XF, Teena Mulder POV   
   Rating:  PG   
   Notes:  Written for Haven 500 Word "You're Having My   
   Baby" Challenge   
   Disclaimer:  They belong to CC, not me (and I   
   wouldn't want CSM anyhow, even back when he didn't   
   smoke)   
      
   *   *   *   *   *   *   
      
   "I'm pregnant."   
      
   In an instant he was kneeling beside my chair, his   
   arms around my waist, tears in his eyes. "Finally!   
   We're going to be a family!"   
      
   I'd said the same words earlier today.  Different   
   man, different reaction.  Both times I felt nothing   
   but shame.   
      
   *   *   *   *   *   *   
      
   "I'm pregnant."   
      
   "Bill must be thrilled."   
      
   "You know this isn't Bill's child."   
      
   The cool, piercing eyes that once gazed at me with   
   lustful desire were now filled with righteous   
   indignation. "I don't know anything of the sort."   
      
   How foolish I've been.   
      
   We'd met a year earlier, at a Fort Bragg mixer for   
   new officers and their wives.  Charles was everything   
   Bill wasn't - charming, charismatic, mysterious,   
   ambitious.  Later I added attentive, passionate, and   
   accomplished lover to the list.   
      
   The Mulders and the Spenders became fast friends;   
   evenings at the movies, weekends at the shore.  One   
   day I stopped for coffee at a local diner and he was   
   there.  He poured his heart out, lamenting his frigid   
   wife who didn't share his aspirations.  He knew I'd   
   understand, he said, because we were two of a kind.   
   He talked of far-away places he intended to see, and   
   halls of power he intended to walk, and I was   
   smitten.   
      
   We drove to a motel outside Fayetteville where he   
   completed the seduction, his voice mesmerizing, his   
   touch captivating.  He was gentle and forceful at the   
   same time, leaving me satisfied but wanting more.   
      
   We began to meet for "coffee" once a week, and in   
   January spent two glorious days together when   
   Cassandra visited her mother and Bill drew a surprise   
   assignment as driver for a visiting General.  I was   
   playing a dangerous game, but didn't care.   
      
   A short time later, our trysts ended as abruptly as   
   they'd begun.  Cassandra suspected, he said, but I   
   knew that wasn't the reason.  A powerful man lives   
   for the challenge; and once he's taken his best   
   friend's wife in his best friend's bed, there's no   
   challenge left.   
      
   "Give Bill my congratulations," he smirked.  "And   
   tell him I'm glad I was available to make up for his   
   shortcomings."   
      
   "Bastard!"  I raised my hand to slap his face, but he   
   caught my wrist.   
      
   "Careful, Teena," he sneered.  "We wouldn't want Bill   
   to find out what kind of woman you really are."   
      
   I ran away and never looked back.   
      
   *   *   *   *   *   *   
      
   "How long?  I mean ... when?"   
      
   I blinked away the tears and stroked Bill's hair.   
   "Late November," I lied.  When the baby was born in   
   October Bill would be over-the-moon happy, and if he   
   noticed the discrepancy at all, it could be easily   
   explained away.   
      
   "I love you, Teena."  He kissed me chastely and   
   headed for the kitchen.  "I'm gonna call the folks.   
   They'll be delirious."   
      
   Bill was a good man who longed for a happy family.   
   At that moment I promised myself he would have that   
   and more.  Charles would find out that even a   
   powerful man is no match for a woman scorned.   
      
   THE END   
      
      
      
      
      
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