SEAL Baby Daddy by Claire Adams

Author:Claire Adams [Adams, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Harper

The whole night with Ace was so perfect. Absolutely perfect. The kind of date that you only dreamed about. And I’d been so happy. Until we started driving home. Until I started thinking about Ava, waiting for me back in our apartment. Until I started thinking about the fact that I still hadn’t told Ace that he was her father.

And by this point, I was sure that I had waited too long, that the opportunity to tell him had come and gone. If I told him now, it was like I’d been lying to him this whole time.

I swallowed hard as I walked slowly up the stairs to my apartment. It seemed like such a long way, even though I did this every day. I felt exhausted.

It was clear from tonight’s date that we were no longer taking things slow. Oh, it hadn’t ended up with sex. But from the time Ace showed up at the apartment with flowers to the time that I returned, now, with a slice of cake for Maisie because Ace planned on sticking around and wanted to get into her good books, the entire game had changed.

And I’d enjoyed every minute of the date. But there was no way I could tell him about Ava now.

I pushed open the front door and closed it slowly and quietly behind me. Maisie had the TV on in the other room, and I could hear it faintly, meaning she probably hadn’t heard me come in. I fell back against the door, my head thudding against the hard wood, my heart thudding inside my chest.

I slowly slid down to the floor, putting the box of cake to the side and hugging my knees to my chest, willing myself not to cry.

I knew this wasn’t going to work out. I knew that right from the start. It was Ace, after all. He might have changed, but he didn’t want a family and children.

Tonight had been sweet and almost perfect, but the whole dinner just felt like a precursor to getting off. We were still just together because we were attracted to each other, not because he wanted some sort of deeper connection to me. I had to face facts. I had to realize this wasn’t going to be everything I’d always wanted it to be.

Maisie came into the hall, a frown on her face. “I thought I heard you come in.” She paused, staring down at me. I knew what I must look like. I could feel the tears in my eyes. “Oh, honey.” She slid down next to me on the floor and put her arm around my shoulders. “What did that asshole do to you?”

“It’s me!” I told her. “I’m the asshole.” I lowered my voice, reminding myself that Ava was somewhere in the apartment, too, hopefully asleep. “I still haven’t told him.”

Maisie hummed in response. “But you’re going to, aren’t you?” she asked.

I shook my head. “I need to stop seeing him,” I said. “I have to. It’s getting to be too much.

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