Baby, ASAP - A Billionaire Buys a Baby Romance (Babies for the Billionaire Book 3) by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine [Valentine, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Jonathan

There was no meeting that morning, but it was the only way to get Cory off my back long enough for me to think. The last three weeks had been utterly miserable. For the first time in my two years of running this corporation, I was finding myself frustrated and overwhelmed in the face of my work.

Not that the work itself was any more difficult or arduous than it had ever been; on the contrary, the last three weeks had seen me jetting from China to Australia to France, making deals and solidifying partnerships. At any other time of my life, I would have enjoyed it immensely.

I had never before had a personal struggle so insurmountable or all-consuming before, however, and the matter had cluttered my mind to the point of distraction.

“Betrayed,” I muttered to myself as I walked briskly through the city streets. “That’s what it is. I was betrayed, by her, of all people.”

That didn’t sound right, and I mulled it over some more, turning down another random road. I certainly felt betrayed, but had the betrayal actually taken place? If it had, Kaley had more problems than simple deviousness.

She had been more than willing to show me the result the morning after, had gone to great lengths to make the point, in fact. She had given me four tests when I had only vaguely requested one, and she had done it without hesitation or any sign of malicious intent. She had seemed to be just as shocked at the negative result as I had been, leading me to tentatively believe that she hadn’t been expecting it.

“False positives are rare, aren’t they?” I asked myself.

The truth of it was, I didn’t really know how rare they were. More, I didn’t really think it mattered. Rare did not mean impossible, so no matter the statistical probability, there was a chance that it had happened to her.

I stopped for a breath and rubbed my tired eyes, then ran a hand through my hair. As my head tilted upward, my vision was suddenly filled with her image, a hundred times larger than life, touching her forehead to a baby’s. The baby’s gray eyes reflected hers; his tousled brown curls mingled with hers, and I was suddenly struck by the knowledge that our child could look like that.

If there had been a child, anyway. That loss hit my gut like an iceberg, and I felt my anger at her begin to return. Then, I read the billboard.

Take pride in your family. Take pride in your toys!

There it was, clear as day. Kaley hadn’t broken my heart with the negative test; she had merely wounded my pride. A blow, to be sure, but not one I couldn’t recover from. It would take an apology to her. I wasn’t good at apologies.

A thought, which had been playing in the shadows of my mind for the last three weeks, resurfaced: I could find another. Some other woman to carry my child and make appearances.

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