Admit You Miss Me: A Surrogate Pregnancy Romance (Irresistible Billionaires Book 1) by Ajme Williams

Author:Ajme Williams [Williams, Ajme]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

17

Charles

I watched the man’s lips moving as the words he said turned into a monotonous drone in my mind. My eyes glazed over.

“Don’t you think so?” he said. I snapped back into attention; the decorated hotel ballroom, the charity auction, the man in front of me who was telling me why this flightless bird from the forests of southeast Asia was worth saving.

“Yeah, of course, you’re absolutely right. One second, I’ll be right back,” I said, walking away from him.

What the hell was I doing here? How did I let my mother drag me out tonight? I should have been home with Brenna. We could have gone out tonight. We could have stayed at the house, ordered pizza and just watched a movie. Anything would be more interesting than listening to someone telling me about the mating habits of a bird that was going extinct.

I did my part for the environment, but tonight was not the night. I used to have a far higher tolerance for these sorts of things, but my priorities were a little different these days. Tonight just wasn’t the night. Sue me.

None of this was real. The relationships between all these people, the conversations, the way everyone pretended they were happy to see each other and were going to stay in touch; spoiler alert, they didn’t. It was completely false. They just wanted to know the ways that they could be useful to each other. That was it. They didn’t even care about the fucking endangered bird.

I grabbed a flute of champagne off one of the roving waiters and downed it in one swallow. I was ready to leave. I had shown up, said hey to the Thomases and laughed and smiled with people I never wanted to meet again. That felt like more than enough to me. My mother was doing the rounds, socializing. Networking. She had done this all her life, she was great at it. I should have been better at it but guess I had no choice but to disappoint her some more.

I didn’t want this life. She thrived in this environment. I didn’t. She wanted this crowd. I would rather live in solitary confinement than deal with this particular crowd again. I couldn’t see myself doing this for the rest of my life and fuck if she or anyone else said I had to. I wasn’t going to. I wanted, no I needed something real. Brenna was real. She wouldn’t want to spend a minute with these people and wouldn’t allow herself to be coerced to come to something like this.

That was it. I was out of here.

“Oh, Charles, there you are,” I heard my mother’s voice behind me. I turned around, seeing her with a woman on her arm.

“Mother.”

She gave me a look. The look. The one that she gave me when I was doing something to embarrass her, but we were in public and she couldn’t make a scene. “You weren’t on your way out, were you?” she asked.

“Actually, I was.

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