Baby for my Dad’s Best Friend: An Age Gap, Secret Baby Romance by Rose Annie J

Author:Rose, Annie J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

LAYLA

I got away with wearing Aiden’s t-shirt with my jeans and blazer that first day. After that, we were more careful. I went to my place first to get a change of clothes, and then after a couple weeks, I began keeping things at his place. We were careful in other ways, too. Careful not to be alone together at the office, careful not to let our gazes clash for too long. It was easy enough during the workday—it was the happy hours, working dinners, and the last baseball game of the season that made things tricky. Inhibitions lowered. Stolen glances lingered for too long. More than once, we found ourselves sneaking off to find a place to be alone.

Still, we got away with it. Liv and Bran were the only other two souls in the world that knew about us, and even Aiden didn’t know about that. I wanted to tell him, but he had been so adamant that we had to keep this a secret just between the two of us that I didn’t know how to tell him it wasn’t. I’d never been a particularly secretive person, so it was strange to suddenly have two big ones from the people who mattered most to me in the world.

Aiden was a secret from the rest of my family.

Bran and Liv’s knowledge was a secret from Aiden.

Both stuck in my heart like burrs. Every time I bumped up against one, I felt a short, sharp jab.

Not quite pain, but an uncomfortable sensation that something was wrong. I shouldn’t be lying to any of them, but that was what I’d signed up for when I pursued my father’s best friend. And even though it didn’t feel right to deceive them, everything else felt too good to stop.

The reality of being with Aiden in every way I’d ever imagined as a lovelorn teenager eclipsed the fantasy. When he touched me, the dazzling array of feelings and emotions were so intense it made me wonder how I’d ever thought I was really in love with Christian. That pallid, washed-out version of a relationship felt like something different from what was happening between Aiden and me.

One night, as Aiden worked on his laptop on the balcony and I sat out there with him, drinking a glass of wine, he brought up what we’d been careful not to bring up.

My dad.

“I’m getting a beer with Jack this week,” he said without looking up from his screen. The harsh blue light brought the hard planes of his face into a strange relief. I could see his frown clearly enough, but the look in his eyes was lost to shadow.

Jack. He never referred to him as my dad anymore. It put distance between us and the overwhelming problem of my parentage. I twisted the wine glass in my hands and took another sip. “Why?”

“Because I haven’t seen him in a bit.”

“Isn’t that normal?”

Aiden shrugged his shoulders. “We catch a game or grab a beer every month or so.

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