The Billionaire's Favorite Mistake by Jessica Clare

Author:Jessica Clare
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-02T12:04:35+00:00

Chapter 8

It was going to be another damn day before Asher could return to Vegas, and it was killing him to miss all this time with Greer. It was only one more day, but he wanted to touch her. He craved the feel of her skin and the sight of her smiles. He’d managed to wrangle phone sex out of her again last night, but she refused to Skype. Too shy, he guessed, and it made him feel protective of her . . . and made him vow to be that much dirtier in his talk. The moment he wrapped up his last meeting, he was taking a flight back to Vegas and getting out of the city and away from his business that should have been running itself.

Asher glared at his CEO as the man bluffed his way through another high-level meeting, and wondered if he’d been too quick to pass off control. But, damn it, he didn’t want to spend sixteen hours a day for the next ten years grooming the company for someone else to take over. He wanted to live his life. He wanted to spend time with Greer.

He wanted to see his baby born.

While the meeting (the third one of the day) droned on, he picked up his phone and started to Google Dutch baby names, and then Indian ones. Staring at a long list of choices didn’t help much, though, considering he had no idea if the baby would be a boy or a girl. It didn’t matter to him, because he’d love either one, but he liked the thought of a baby girl with Greer’s dark hair and eyes. At what point in the pregnancy would she find out the sex, he wondered, and Googled that, too.

As early as twelve weeks. Huh. He pulled up a calendar and counted back. It had been over twelve weeks. He immediately texted Greer.

Asher: Got a moment?

There was no response right away, which meant she was probably busy with something, and he impatiently put his phone aside and tried to focus on the meeting. It was probably a good thing she wasn’t answering, since he wasn’t supposed to care about the baby. That was getting harder and harder to pretend, though. He wanted to ask about it every time he talked to her, wanted to know if she was feeling well or if the baby had started moving and if she could feel it. He wanted to experience it with her and hated that he was being held back.

As the meeting droned on, Asher rubbed his jaw, staring down at his silent phone.

“Mr. Sutton?”

He glanced up and looked over at Ishikawa, his recently hired CEO. “Yeah?”

“Did you want to temporarily adjourn the meeting to go over the latest reports?”

Asher nodded and got to his feet. Any excuse to get him out of there. “I need to take care of a few things actually, so I’m going to hand this off to you.”

Ishikawa looked pleased, and the others on the board a little concerned.

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