Baby Surprise for the Millionaire by Ruby Basu

Author:Ruby Basu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-11-09T21:21:31+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ALL THE DIFFERENT instruction leaflets scattered on her counter said the same thing—the best time to take a test was first thing in the morning. Saira knew this already. She didn’t need to read the instructions to know what to do. But reading them was a good distraction from thinking about why she needed the tests...

She ran her fingers through her hair. She could be worrying about nothing. Probably was. This was a situation she was all too familiar with, and each time she was left disappointed.

Saira picked up one of the boxes. How many times had she bought one of these, full of excitement, full of joy, and then seen Dilip’s crestfallen face each time she told him the negative news?

Apart from that one time. Which she didn’t let herself think about. Couldn’t let herself think about.

She took a couple of deep, centring breaths and focused on the boxes in front of her. After all those times when she’d yearned for a positive result, she couldn’t be pregnant from a fling. Could she?

She hadn’t even considered it a possibility until that morning. When Dilip died, Saira had put away her ovulation kits and thermometers and trackers, never expecting to need them again.

It was only when she saw her stock of unused sanitary supplies and put them together with her dizzy episodes and mild morning nausea that she even entertained the thought.

The hope?

The previous times she’d taken these tests she’d been part of a loving, committed couple, for whom a child would have been a much-wanted addition to their family.

This time it couldn’t be more different.

She’d returned to England to start again. Get a job. Find her own place. Be independent. Her future plans hadn’t included having a child.

But those plans were based on her false assumption she would need to be in a relationship before a child could be part of the picture. Life didn’t care about her assumptions. If she were pregnant she could easily adjust those plans, and would happily do so.

Pregnant.

Could it be possible?

She half-laughed, half-cried at the prospect. The fear, the worry, the doubts had already started to creep in. She held her hands over her stomach. Even a positive pregnancy test wasn’t a guarantee of happiness. Those memories were getting harder to hold back. Threatening to overwhelm her.

She needed to be practical. She deliberately turned her thoughts to Nathan. To how he would react. It was bad enough trying to keep her thoughts in order, without adding the extra complication of how to involve him, the father of her possible child. She had no idea how to handle this situation. Was there some etiquette for telling someone you’d had a fling with that you might be pregnant with their baby?

How would he take the news? Not well, that was for sure. He didn’t do long term. He didn’t want commitment. A child was a life-long commitment. You couldn’t get more long term than that. This was probably the last thing he wanted.

Her phone rang.

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