Bilking A Billionaire: Harder Than Diamonds (Book 3) by Elmie Carmichael

Author:Elmie Carmichael [Carmichael, Elmie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Later that night, he's in the main room with Aubrey, drawing. He's shit at it and she'd probably have more fun with Joseph, but he's avoiding Alex, still pissed off that Alex lied. Objectively, he knows that Alex had his reasons behind it and they'll have to talk about it eventually, but right now he's just so tired and angry about everything and he'd much rather sit on the floor and draw with Aubrey.It didn't take him long to get her to warm up to him when he brought her some food. He hadn't known what she liked at all, but he assumed any sort of chocolate would be okay. Normally, he wouldn't condone giving chocolate to a child before they've had something of more sustenance, but she watched her parents die today. She deserves it.

Once he'd given her the chocolate, she'd started telling him about her favorite places to go and he told her about Dog and it sort of blossomed from there and somehow they ended up doing this. He's shit at drawing, but it's kept him away from Alex for the evening.

Of course this is when he happens to look up and spot Alex leaning in the doorway to their room, watching them with a warm look. Chris knows that look. It's his “I love children and I want them, but we agreed not to” look. Chris knows that look well. He has his own variation of it. It doesn't help that Alex's already gotten attached to her. It doesn't help that Chris can feel himself starting to get attached and seeing Alex give him that look is making it all so much worse.

When they'd agreed years ago that having children would be too dangerous for them he knew it would be a hard decision to stick to. There's a lot of talk about women's biological clocks ticking, but Chris thinks the same thing happens with men – at least it's happening for both him and Alex. (Of course, he knows that logically they could have children at any time. It's not like they'd be relying on science, but it's the principle of the thing.) They both love children and many years ago Chris was convinced he'd have several of his own by this age. It was hard on him coming to terms with that fact that children was an unlikely thing for him and it was harder inflicting that on Alex, but Alex had insisted that he was okay with it because he'd rather have him.

Chris has never been sure on how long that would last for Alex – always had a fear in the back of his mind that Alex would decide that children were more important than Chris, but that's not happened yet. And over the years, Chris has realized that they've found little ways to cope with their want of children.

Alex got them a dog. Chris didn't comment that it was only after Joseph had mentioned having a puppy was a lot like having a child.

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