Accidentally Engaged: A Fertility Doctor Next Door Romance (Single Dad Billionaires) by Mia Mara

Author:Mia Mara [Mara, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

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“So, you’re not my new mommy?”

I sighed for the thousandth time as I placed a red Lego on top of all the other red Legos. He’d insisted on making a red-only Lego tower. “No, Jamey, I’m not.”

He pouted as he looked down at the bricks in his hand. “All of my friends have a mommy.”

His words hit me like a bullet to the chest. I inhaled, lifting my head to the ceiling so the burning behind my eyes would dissipate, and lowered it only when I felt in control. “You know, Jamey, not everyone has a mommy. Maybe one day your daddy will find a mommy for you, but it’s okay if he doesn’t. Some people just don’t have one. Some people have two daddies, some people lose their mommy when they’re little. Some mommies don’t get to have babies.” I fought the quivering in my lip as he looked up at me, his eyes wide. “Your daddy does what’s best for you even if it doesn’t feel like it. If he decides to get you a mommy, it’ll be someone even better than me, the best of the best. He wouldn’t settle for less for you.”

“But you’re the best of the best.”

I laughed as I pulled him into my lap. “I’m hardly the best, you little squirt,” I joked as he wrapped his little arms around my neck.

He really was such a sweet kid, even though he had so much of his father in him. If and when I eventually got pregnant, I hoped that whoever popped out would be at least half as funny, half as cute as Jamey. I could easily play with him forever, even when he asked me the same questions over and over, even when he got annoyed because I made him something he didn’t love for lunch, and even when he played the same episode of Peppa Pig three times in a row.

I was ready to be a parent. More than ready. It was almost crazy how much I wanted it, how much the need for it floated around inside me, always in the background no matter what I did or to whom I spoke. It was always there. A constant want, a constant need.

I took solace in the fact that once I became pregnant, Hudson and I could call off our fake engagement. We could pretend that we had broken up—the death idea had gone out the window once I realized our moms were friends—and that I was left with the baby, free to raise it on my own because it wouldn’t be his. We could part ways and never see each other again if that’s what we wanted.

That was the part that hurt. I wanted to say it was because I would lose out on hanging out with Jamey and watching him grow, but I knew that wasn’t the only reason. Annoyingly, I knew that Lisa was at least partly right; I’d gotten attached. Not massively, not like before, but a

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