One Song: book two in the one series by Best Victoria J

Author:Best, Victoria J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Rhys

Natalie’s father was a little scary. After they walked out of the room, I sat down in the chair in front of the incubator, a little shaken from kissing Natalie and feeling like I was a teenager caught making out in my girlfriend’s room. It was an odd feeling and for a while, I sat and stared at my son as he slept, to try to gather my thoughts. There was no hiding Mr. Livingston thought I wasn’t good enough for Natalie. That much was clear. But my mind wouldn’t settle and the embarrassment was replaced with anger and irritation. Who the hell did he think he was to tell Natalie who she could be with? She was a grown woman and I was a grown ass man.

Standing, I paced the tiny room, waiting for Natalie to return. I was putting together an indignant speech for the elder Christopher Livingston in my head when Natalie silently re-entered the room. Her eyes were glassy and red, and she had her arms wrapped protectively around her middle. I looked behind her to see if her dad was following, but she was alone.

“Are you okay?” I asked as I flew to her side.

Natalie shrugged and put her hands out. “I don’t know. He gave me an ultimatum. If I didn’t come back to work at the company and pretend that you weren’t Christopher’s father, he would cut us off. No inheritance.”

“What? Because of me and some stupid job?” My mind wandered to my own mother and what she gave up for me to go to college. Her reaction to me dropping out could have been like Mr. Livingston’s, but my mother was a far better person than he was.

Natalie shrugged again. “Yeah. That’s what he said. But I don’t want to go back to the company. It was sucking the life out of me. I can see that now. But what will we do if my father publicly disowns me? He has so much power in this city that I’ll never get another job here again.”

Silent tears slid down her face, and I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her against my chest. Natalie stiffened at the contact, something having shifted between us in the last ten minutes, but she didn’t pull away. I worried she would take her father’s words to heart and cast me aside like the loser he thought I was. Christopher Livingston II was a bastard. An idea occurred to me as I held her. Letting her go, I put my finger under her chin and tipped her head back to look at me. I was met with a pair of watery hazel eyes.

“Come back to California with me when Christopher gets out of here.” I didn’t care that we barely knew each other. It didn’t matter that we had no place to live but my tiny studio apartment. I wanted her. I wanted them.

Natalie gazed up at me, her tears drying up and her eyes wide. I wanted to kiss her again, but now was not the time.

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