The Prince's Triplet Baby Surprise - A Multiple Baby Royal Romance (More Than He Bargained For Book 8) by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The next five months, from January to June, bordered on nightmarish, with Lisa’s pregnant belly extending far beyond any other she’d seen before—and certainly much further than any of her friends’, who’d been so blissfully excited for the arrival of their child-rearing years. The unfairness of it all made her tense and irritable.

Still, she pushed on, cleaning up her diet, ensuring that protein-rich salads were a lunch staple, and even reading the baby books leant to her by Nancy and the other pre-soccer moms, who “just couldn’t wait” to squeeze all three children’s cheeks.

As she grew larger, Lisa found she could take on fewer and fewer projects, ultimately bringing her bank balance to an all-time low. Whenever Rocco called, she made excuses, not wanting him to discover her “predicament.”

She’d considered telling him that she had a family emergency, that she wouldn’t be able to work for a few months, but that she’d return full-fledged and vibrant, like a new woman. She supposed the lie wasn’t so dramatic. With each inch that her belly protruded, the pregnancy felt like a greater emergency. She couldn’t very well chase after celebrities, her camera flailing, and expect to get the shots she needed.

Lisa splayed out on her couch on a mid-June afternoon, calculating her remaining funds, and recognizing that she would soon have to give up her apartment. She just couldn’t make it for the next few months, rent-wise. She bit her lip, sensing the weight of her reality with each calculation, realizing that, in many ways, her life in New York was over.

She hadn’t heard from Princess Rose in the months since their meeting in Central Park. She hadn’t received a single cent from her, nor any paperwork regarding the adoption. She’d become obsessed with tabloid photographs of the couple, thinking back to that fateful night, when she’d watched over them from the corner of the Matador, so light and confident, bribing her way into their private space to net herself a sweet profit. What she would do to take it all back. What she would do to spring back into her old life, pre-Francesco, and pre-Rose.

She slid her hand over her bulbous stomach, knowing that this wasn’t exactly true. Her love for her babies constantly grew within her. Sometimes, she stayed up all night, daydreaming about their futures—if they’d get along, if they’d become different people, each of them taking a drastically different path through life. Of course, the imagining often spiraled out of control. But she supposed that was true for almost every mother.

She’d begun to harbor an active hatred for the Prince, who’d ultimately abandoned her. She was more alone, and broken, than she’d ever been. And, in conversation with her mother the previous evening, she’d decided to move back to Detroit to find her footing.

“I can support us both,” her mother had affirmed, showing such confidence in the face of adversity. Such was her way.

“Mom, no. I’ll get a job once I’m there. Once the babies are born, I’ll go back to work.

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