"I am Robert Evans, attorney for your husband Thomas, you are hereby served with these divorce papers, your husband is seeking a 70/30 split of all assets, and he is seeking primary custody of your son John as well as protection from alimony or child support for your two bastard children conceived illicitly with at least two different partners. The details are all in the papers." Robert says.
All of Rachel's co-workers that had been so happy and excited for her earlier now quickly walked away from her in her disgrace and humiliation.
Rachel quickly retrieves her phone and leaves crying.
Meanwhile Thomas is knocking on Judy's front door.
"Thomas, what are you doing here?" Judy asked.
"I came to see William, I'm sure by now you know he's not my biological son, but I've been his daddy for the past four years and I think I owe him an explanation." Thomas said.
"Okay, but make it quick, Rachel will be back any minute and I don't want any trouble." Judy said.
Judy leads Thomas to where William is watching cartoons and the baby is sleeping in the baby carrier.
"Daddy!" William said.
He jumped up to give Thomas a hug.
"Hey there sport. Daddy has something he has to tell you. Judy, do you mind if I talk to him alone?" Thomas asked.
"I'll be in the kitchen." Judy said.
When Judy was out of sight Thomas put his finger to his lips to tell William to be quiet then he picked up William and the baby carrier and headed out the front door. Judy walked into the living room when she heard Thomas' car start up.
"Oh no!" Judy yelled.
She rushed outside to try to chase Thomas, but he drove away quickly. Judy breaks down crying and is still crying on the front steps when Rachel gets home.
"What's wrong? Where are the kids?" Rachel asked.
"He took them. Thomas came, he said he needed to talk to William alone, to explain to him what was happening, when I got back to the living room they were gone." Judy said.
"That doesn't make sense, he didn't want anything to do with them and now he kidnaps them?" Rachel asked.
At just about that time Rachel's cell phone rings.
"Hello?" Rachel asks.
"Hi honey, it's me, I'm sure you're worried about William and the baby, but they're fine, what's her name by the way?" Thomas asked.
"Her name is Sara Grace Miller." Rachel said.
Thomas laughs.
"That's pretty funny, you gave her my last name." Thomas said.
"Where are you?" Rachel asked.
"I'm on your parents' front porch. I think they should meet their new granddaughter." Thomas said.
"NO! Thomas, please don't do this." Rachel begged.
"It's too late now Rachel, William already rang the door bell. I'll leave them here for you to come get them if you want them." Thomas said.
Thomas hangs up just as the door opens.
"Thomas, I'm glad to see you, where are John and Rachel?" Ben asked.
"Rachel might be on her way over right now, John is at school. Ben, I'd like you to meet your granddaughter Sara Grace." Thomas said.
He pulls the cover off revealing the dark skinned baby.
"Thomas, whatever kind of joke this is it isn't funny." Ben said.
"What isn't funny?" Emily asks.
She looks at the baby.
"Oh my god." Emily said.
"I demand that you explain this at once." Ben said.
"This little girl is the child that Rachel gave birth to, she is your granddaughter, but she is obviously not my daughter. As it turns out William isn't my son either. I'm leaving the two of them with you. I'm sure that now that you know her little secret Rachel will be over here to get them soon." Thomas said.
With that Thomas got in his car and drove away.
When Rachel got to her parents' house she was crying. The first thing Emily did when she opened the door was slap Rachel with all of her strength.
"You dirty little whore, how could you do this?" Emily asked.
"Mom, I'm sorry." Rachel said.
"Don't I'm sorry me, you cheated not once, but twice, including once with a black man, and now your husband is going to divorce you, you have two children that don't have fathers, and I want nothing to do with you. Take your two bastard children and get out of my house." Emily said.
"Mom, please, you can't throw me out, I need you." Rachel said.
"What you need young lady is your knees sewn together. I was there when you married Thomas, I heard you say the words, you promised to keep yourself only for him until death do you part and now we find out that you have not one, but two illegitimate children, including one that could never pass as being Thomas' child. You are a terrible person and I never want to see you again." Emily said.
"Daddy, please, you aren't going to kick me out are you? Not when you see how much I need you right now." Rachel sobbed.
"Thomas is a good man, a good husband, and a good father and this is how you repay him? Why did you do what you did Rachel? Why did you risk throwing away your marriage not once, but at least twice?" Ben asked.
"I wanted something more, I wanted to feel sexy and special, both of the men I slept with, and yes there have only been two besides Thomas, both of them gave me that feeling. They were both one time things and if I had any reason to believe that either of them had gotten me pregnant I would have gotten abortions rather than have another man's child. When I saw Sara I knew my marriage was over, but never in a million years did I ever think that William wasn't Thomas' son, they're so much alike. I never meant for this to happen." Rachel said.
"But it did happen and now Thomas is going to divorce you and I don't blame him one bit, this is all your fault Rachel, you made your bed, let two other men share it with you, and now you must face the consequences. William and Sara are still my grandchildren and I will still love them and want to spend time with them, but right now I don't want to see you or hear from you." Ben said.
Broken and defeated Rachel returned to the house. After putting Sara down for a nap and getting William interested in a cartoon Rachel sat down and began reading through the divorce papers that she had been given earlier in the day.
One week later Rachel sat in the conference room at the law office of Robert Evans with her lawyer Walter Johnson. Across the table from her sat her husband Thomas and his lawyer the previously mentioned Robert Evans.
"There are a few things that my client wishes to protest in these documents. First and foremost is the condition that she divulge the names of the two parties that are alleged to be the fathers of the two younger children." Walter said.
"My client stands firm on that point as he requires the information so that he can pursue civil damages against them for compensation for 4 years of child support in the case of William and a wide assortment of medical and other expenses in the case of Sara. If Mrs. Miller chooses not to give up the names my client will pursue sole custody of the older boy John, that is the biological child of my client. He will seek a restraining order preventing Mrs. Miller from seeing the boy, and given the evidence it will be easy for us to prove that she is an unfit mother and a potential danger to John as well as to the other two children so she might lose custody of them as well." Robert said.
Rachel began crying, then whispered to her lawyer.
"Very well Mrs. Miller will give up the names as long as Mr. Miller will allow her visitation rights with John and will not attempt to have the other children taken from her." Walter said.
Thomas and Robert whispered.
"My client agrees to that. He merely wants proper compensation for the expenditures he made towards other men's children." Robert said.
After a civilized conversation of about half an hour Thomas had the two names that he needed and wanted. He has his lawyer start the process to get the two men served with papers requiring them to appear in court.
Thomas carefully goes through the receipts that he had kept since learning that Rachel was pregnant with William and itemizes each expense, most are needs such as diapers, food, and clothing, but there are some other items like toys included in the list. He makes a similar list for the expenses he paid related to Sara.
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