Diane's Remembrance (Second Chance #4) Read Online Free

because I feel you need to know. I don’t want anything from you and you never have to acknowledge her.”
     
    “Never have to acknowledge her?” He gasps in shock. “You cannot be serious. If I have a daughter there you can bet your ass that I will acknowledge her.” He pauses for a minute before he continues. “My wife and I will come to Texas. I want a DNA test to confirm she is really my child. If she is I will use every resource I have to make sure she comes back to Puerto Rico with me. I will contact you when we arrive.” He says and hangs up before I can respond.
     
    Diane was awakened from her dream by a commotion in the quad. When she went to the door and looked out she saw Carol, Miranda and another woman she didn’t know in a fight. They were surrounded by the rest of the women of the cell block and Diane knew they were all going to be punished.
     

Chapter Six
     
     
    “Diane, can I ask you something?” David Matthews asks me as we are walking out the front doors of the school.
     
    “Umm..sure, David.” I answer, uncertain of what he wants to ask me. Our parents had always wanted us to get together, but after Karla was born my parents stopped talking to me about him.
     
    “Will you go to the movies with me on Saturday?” He asks and I stop walking. He cannot be serious.
     
    “Why are you asking me out?” I ask him with a tilt of my head.
     
    “I’m asking you out because I want to go out with you. Diane, we have known each other since birth and I have liked you since before you had Karla. That never changed.”
     
    “Oh, wow, umm.” I say and try to figure out if he’s being truthful or just trying to get a laugh from his friends.
     
    “Tell ya what. If you can get your Mom to watch Karla for a little while this afternoon I will prove to you that my feelings are real.” He tells me, picking up on my hesitance.
     
    “Okay. I’ll ask her when I get home. She’s had Karla all day so she may not be up to watching her any longer, but I’ll ask.”
     
    “If she doesn’t, then bring her with you. I don’t mind spending time with the both of you.” He says and my heart melts. Never had I gone out with anyone like David. Karla was almost one and I had only had two dates since she was born. Both guys were looking for one thing and I wasn’t that person anymore.
     
    “I can do that. I’ll meet you at your house after school.” I tell him and he smiles.
     
    “Perfect.” He says as he grabs my hand and places a soft kiss on my palm. “See ya then.” He tells me then releases my hand and heads to the group of trees where the jocks eat lunch.
     
    “Diane, here’s the paper you asked for. Are you writing another letter to Karla?” The guard asked her as he handed her the paper. She wrote to Karla almost daily and had accumulated a small stack of letters under her mattress. Letters Karla would probably never see. Today she was wanting to tell her about her brother, Elliot.
     
    “Yep.” She answered then dropped her head to look at the blank paper in front of her. “Thank you.” She whispered to the guard as he walked off.
     
    My Dearest Karla,
     
    Today I am writing to tell you about someone I kept from you. I will probably never send this, but I have to write it out anyway.
     
    When you were two years old I had another baby. I was married and in love with my husband, but the darkness from the past was creeping back in. In previous letters I told you about your name and how I came up with it and about everything that had led to me losing my two best friends. I have also told you about your father. Now I’m going to tell you about David, your step-father, and Elliot, your brother.
     
    David was the love of my life. He was a light that kept the dark nights from creeping into my soul and destroying me. He was my anchor to this earth. I loved him more than I should have and he loved you deeply.
     
    The day David asked me to marry him was the second happiest day of my