The Billionaire's Bad News Baby by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-31T18:30:00+00:00

It read positive. Plain as day. But these things weren’t a hundred percent accurate. False positives were a thing, and even Liz had hedged their bets and bought two of the things. But then Kayla did the second test, waited another excruciatingly long three minutes, and the result was the same. Positive. Pregnant. Expecting. With child… Whatever you called it, it was life-changing. Kayla had had quite enough life-changing experiences in the last couple of months, thank you very much.

She sat on the edge of the bathtub, with the two very positive pregnancy tests lined up on the basin, and pressed the heels of her palms into her eyes. This all seemed easier to process if she could just reduce the amount of information coming into her brain at any one time. Was the human body actually meant to process this many emotions at once? It didn’t feel like it because Kayla thought her heart might give out at any given moment.

A baby was great, objectively. She’d always wanted to be a mom at some point in her life. But the idea had been to find the right guy, settle down and, you know, plan a pregnancy. Kayla wasn’t all that keen on surprises at the best of times. So, yeah, a baby was amazing. Unfortunately, the practicalities came rushing in and dampened the mood.

She had just quit her very stable, very normal job to go and start from scratch in a very not-stable line of work. A line of work that she wasn’t even qualified for yet. She was living off her savings currently, looking around for serving jobs, thinking that it might get her into the industry from the ground floor. She was doing the math on all of the things you needed to buy in order to take care of an infant, all of the things she would need to buy before it was even born, not to mention the medical bills and… oh, God. Now she didn’t know if she was sick from the pregnancy or from panic.

There was a knock on the door and Kayla jumped, her hands flying from her eyes and returning her to the rest of reality, blinking from the brightness.

“Considering you’ve been in there for about twenty minutes now,” came her mom’s voice through the door, “I’m going to hazard a guess that I’m officially going to be a grandmother?”

Kayla stood and opened the door, and Liz was right there with a sympathetic smile on her face. She knew what to do, surging forward and sweeping Kayla up into a hug.

“Congrats,” Kayla said in a dry voice. “You’re officially going to be a grandma.”

“And you,” said Liz, pulling back and smoothing some curls away from Kayla’s face. “You’re going to be a mom!”

“Yeah, well, there’s the matter of the father that needs to be dealt with.”

Kayla needed to sit back down, but she’d spent more than enough time in the bathroom for one day. She walked around her mom and made her way to the living room, perching on the edge of the couch and trying to take some deep breaths.

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