Baby Bombshell For The Boss by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

IVY

“The window treatments are arriving,” Ivy said, leaning into Elliot’s office.

A week had gone by since she’d told him about the pregnancy, and in that time, things had grown very strange between the two of them. It was as if they had finally found the professionalism they’d each claimed to want from the very start of their working relationship. There was no more easy banter between them. There were no more nights in which they stayed late together to go over the plans for the rest of the project. If Elliot did stay past the time when the rest of his employees had gone home, he stayed in his office with the door closed, as if he was unwilling to risk any interaction with Ivy.

He was pulling away from her, and she hated that she had to come in here every day and watch it happen. But there was no getting away from it. There was no avoiding the fact that the relationship the two of them had once had was now forever altered.

Elliot looked up at her. “That’s good,” he murmured idly. “I assume you have it all under control.”

She did, of course. She didn’t need his help. That wasn’t why she’d come knocking at his door. “It’s in hand,” she said, hating herself, feeling like she was begging for scraps of his affection by doing this. “But I thought you might want to come out and see for yourself.”

Elliot shook his head. “I trust you,” he said. “I’m in the middle of going over some important paperwork, so I really don’t have the time right now. If you need any paperwork signed, the contractors can bring it in to me.”

Don’t you bother me again, in other words.

Ivy probably wasn’t being fair. That probably wasn’t quite how he meant it. Still, it did hurt to be so quickly and easily dismissed by Elliot. After everything they’d been through together, and especially now that she was carrying his child, she had never imagined he would find it this easy to turn away from her. She had anticipated that they would eventually go their separate ways, but she had figured he would find it just as difficult as she had known she would.

That didn’t seem to be the case. Instead, it seemed like he was having no trouble at all ending their relationship. If anything, Ivy thought he seemed relieved to have more distance between them.

Well, that was fine, she told herself. If anything, that made it easier for her to say goodbye to him, because it allowed her to replace her memories of the good times they had shared with new ones. Now, when she thought of him, she would think about how cold he had been to her this week, how it had felt almost as if he didn’t even want to know her anymore after discovering her pregnancy.

It was impossible, under the circumstances, to wish that he had wanted to be more involved with her. How could

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