A Baby For Christmas - A Billionaire's New Baby Romance by Layla Valentine & Holly Rayner

Author:Layla Valentine & Holly Rayner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2018-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

SHAYLA

A strange expression flashed on Richie’s face. I couldn’t quite make out what it was—shock and confusion, perhaps? It was as if I’d just shoved a difficult math problem in front of his face and told him to solve it on the spot.

But it went away as quickly as I noticed it, and he returned to the look of serious-eyed professionalism.

“You’re pregnant with Colton’s baby?” he asked, lowering his voice and looking around. “That means that when we were working on the project…”

He waved his hands in front of his face as if trying to banish the thought. “Whatever,” he said. “What happened in the past doesn’t matter.”

I felt major relief at these words. Part of me had worried that Richie might react negatively to the news, and I was glad this didn’t come to pass.

“What matters is what you’re going to do now,” he said.

“I hadn’t thought that far ahead,” I said, feeling more normal now that I’d gotten it all out in the open. “But I suppose I have to tell Colton. What else is there do to?”

“No,” Richie said, his voice flat and stern.

“Wait, what?”

“You shouldn’t tell him, that’s what.”

“Are you seriously telling me that I shouldn’t tell the father of my baby that he’s going to be a dad?”

Every bit of that sentence sounded bizarre coming out of my mouth.

“Right,” he said, cool and calm as though it was the most natural suggestion in the world.

“And do you mind telling me why you think that?”

He stood up from his chair and began to slowly pace back and forth. His face was in a tight expression of concentration, as if trying to formulate his thoughts perfectly.

Finally, he stopped and slid into his chair.

“The logo,” he said. “The fact that he took your work. What does that tell you about what kind of man Colton is?”

I grit my teeth at the thought of the logo, my fingernails digging into the pads of my hands. “It tells me he’s a real asshole,” I said.

“No doubt about that,” said Richie. “But more specifically—what does it say about him?” It was clear he was trying to lead me to a specific answer he had in mind.

“It…tells me that he’s the sort of man who takes what’s his. The kind of man who decides he wants something and doesn’t care what it takes to get it.”

Richie nodded, pleased that I’d said what he’d apparently had on his mind.

“You’re dead right about that. The only issue up for debate is what Colton wants.”

“And what do you think that is?”

“One of two things, I’d bet. I doubt that he’ll want to…have some kind of relationship with you, and even if that was what he wanted, you’d be a fool to do it. So, I’m thinking that he’ll either want the baby or he won’t.

“If he doesn’t want the baby, he’ll likely deny that it’s his. And then you’ll be stuck raising it as a single mother. I doubt he’d even offer child support.”

“But

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