While Reading.....(the best kept secret)

Curtis isn't acknowledging Charlotte because he doesn't know if matthew is his son. Matthew is starting to notice it so they send him off to his Aunties house. Things at home aren't good and eventually Aaron told the whole church about his affair with Charlotte. Of course everyone is wowed, and they figure he must be psychotic. He even made flyers about him and Charlottes 'wedding' which he posted to everyones cars. This further distances Charlotte and Curtis, and even wrose Charlotte finds out she is pregnant- and the baby could be Aarons. One night, Aaron calls her and says that she will regret her actions and before you know it Charlotte and Curtis' home is on fire. Curtis meanwhile was somewhere else at some corner store about to hook up with this lady from their church. He finds out that his house is ablaze because Aaron calls him, and despite all of the things that he and charlotte have been going through he goes into the house and saves her. In the hospital the doctors find out that Charlotte is fine and tells Curtis, then they also say "the little one is doing just fine". Curtis had no idea about the pregnancy and starts laughing, then gets furious. This could be the make or break point, so they have a paternity test and Charlottes friend pays the doctor to say that Curtis is the father. A year later they have a baby girl, a bigger nicer house, everything is just the way Charlotte wanted it to be. Little does she know that while Curtis is away on his trips he is with that lady from Church and once Matthew grows up he has vowed to divorce Charlotte.

While Reading.....(the best kept secret)

Charlotte is starting to recognize that she can't keep having this affair. Something about the affair is subtracting from her attraction to her husband, and he doesnt like it. Although he isn't aware of the affair yet, he blew up on Charlotte because of the problem they are experiencing. He feels bad after but they try to make things up. He plans a nice dinner for her the next evening which means charlotte has to cancel her plans with Aaron. Aaorn doesnt like this and he expects charlotte to divorce her husband and marry him. Anyways, Charlotte and Curtis have a nice dinner and he drives her to a nice hotel- a hotel that Charlotte and Aaron have been hooking up at- and the front desk lady recognizes Charlotte right away. Charlotte feels humiliated and can't look her in t he eye, but proceeds to the room with her husband. After Charlotte and Curtis make love curtis notices a dark hickey on her thigh and totally freaks out. He immediately knows whats up- especially since thats what he was all about before his turn about- and totally flips out. Charlotte made up a stupid lie and says that at the gym the bicycle machine was broken and did that to her leg but he doesn't buy it. She lies until the end, and somehow Curtis finds it in his heart to forgive her but warns her it better not happen again. Although he has forgive her, on the car ride home Aaron calls them on the car phone saying something about how Matthew may not be Curtis' son and that Charlotte was sleeping with her cousins fiancee at the time, slept with her professor and someone else on the night before her and Curtis' wedding. It was all true but of course Charlotte denied most of it, besides the sleeping with the fiancee. Curtis can't take it anymore and just tells her to get out.Aaron continues making phone calls to charlotte making propsition that she either marries him and divorces charlotte or he will spill the beans about everything. Curtis meanwhile dow not want to speak to anyone at all except for his son Matthew because thats the only person he's got. He wants to be the best father he can to Matthew to make sure that Matthew can have everything that he didn't have himself as a child.