The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

Author:Jackie Lau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Interracial romance, Multicultural romance, Asian hero, Romantic comedy, Asian romance, Canadian romance, Romance CEO, humor, foodie romance, bakery romance
Publisher: Jackie Lau Books
Published: 2019-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Josh

When my alarm goes off at six o’clock, I turn it off, then roll over and see Sarah next to me in bed. She’s scribbling in a little purple notebook.

I smile at her. “Morning. How long have you been up?”

“An hour. I usually wake up at five, even on my day off.”

“What are you writing?”

“Notes on the hazelnut chocolate tart we ate last night. I didn’t intend to do any work, but I have a couple ideas for minor changes I can make to my chocolate hazelnut tarts.”

“Should I be insulted you were paying enough attention to your food last night that you can make notes on it?”

She laughs. I love hearing her laugh first thing in the morning. It’s good to wake up with her in my bed.

I toss the notebook to the floor and roll on top of her and kiss her. We’re both wearing short-sleeve Henleys—I lent her one of mine—and underwear and nothing else, but it’s too much clothing. I love feeling her softness beneath me, and I ache to touch her skin.

I’m about to reach for the bottom of her shirt when I notice a book on her pillow.

A Secret Baby for the CEO.

I freeze when I read the title.

Sarah sees where I’m looking and tosses the book on the floor next to the notebook. “Just some reading I was doing before you got up. One of my employees decided to give me a bunch of romances about CEOs since I was going on a date with you.”

“Right.”

A Secret Baby for the CEO. The book is face-down on the floor, but the title keeps running through my head.

I roll back to the other side of the bed.

This isn’t the morning-after I anticipated. I imagined waking up together and fooling around, cocooned together in my room, safe from the winter cold, then going downstairs, where I’d make her breakfast. Maybe we’d have a shower together.

I usually get to work around seven thirty but figured I would show up late today, at nine or—gasp!—ten o’clock.

But now I’m thinking about what happened when I was sixteen.

“What’s a secret baby?” I ask.

“The CEO got the heroine pregnant, but she didn’t realize it until after they’d broken up. She kept the baby a secret from him for a couple years, until they happened to meet again... Josh, what’s wrong?”

I feel like the details of my past are something I owe Sarah, like it’s a big secret I shouldn’t be keeping from her.

I turn toward her and prop my head up on my hand.

She does the same. “I hope you’re not assuming that I’m already dreaming about marriage and babies with you and—”

“I got my girlfriend pregnant when I was sixteen. That’s why my dad doesn’t talk to me.”

She’s quiet for a moment, seemingly disoriented by the change in conversation, then reaches out and strokes my cheek. I lean into her caress. I’m not used to people touching me like this, and it feels nice.

It feels nice because it’s Sarah who’s doing it.

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