BWWM Interracial Romance 8: Mutual Attraction by Elena Brown

Author:Elena Brown [Brown, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Women's Fiction, Romance, Multicultural, One Hour (33-43 Pages), Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B00ZY9268G
Published: 2015-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Barbara’s mother was already asleep when Barbara slipped into apartment and pushed the door closed as quietly as she could. She tiptoed into the kitchen and saw that her mother had left a note indicating there were leftovers in the fridge should she want them, and even though Barbara had eaten at the office, she pulled the plastic container out of the fridge and grabbed a fork from a drawer before taking the food into her room.

Stabbing a forkful of cold pasta, Barbara let out a long exhalation and sank down onto her bed. Her room was small and cramped, with clothes strewn everywhere. As she chewed her food, she looked at her favorite pair of jeans, now far too tight in the waist to fit her. She missed how her ass looked in those jeans, and even more than that, she missed having time to care about how her ass even looked.

Several bites later, the plastic container was empty, and Barbara felt the familiar bloating of having eaten too much so late at night. Her stomach was already swollen and large from the little girl growing inside of her, and although she always felt hungry, it was as if her belly didn’t have room for the baby and the stomach she’d just shoveled all that pasta into.

Barbara laid back in her bed and stared at the ceiling. Idly rubbing her hand over her belly, she wished Neil was there to rub her feet or to even just be there for her to lean against. Her bosses hadn’t been happy when they’d learned that they’d promoted her only to be losing her to a maternity leave in a few short months, but they’d grudgingly accepted that she deserved the new position, and that she’d be back to oversee her new team in relatively short order.

And wasn’t that what she’d wanted? Wasn’t that what she’d fought and worked so hard for? Career had always been the most important thing in Barbara’s life, but lying there, feeling the soft kicking of the infant inside of her, Barbara worried about her baby and how it would grow up. As hard as her own childhood had been, Barbara’s mother had always come home from her jobs to be an attentive and caring mother. She’d made lunches and picked Barbara up from school, always finding ways to arrange her shifts around her daughter’s schedule.

Barbara wondered if she’d ever be able to balance her new position with the care and attention her own daughter would deserve. AJ Kline had only signed off on the minimum twelve week absence, and then they expected her back in the office. Her little girl hadn’t even been born yet, and Barbara just didn’t know how she’d ever be able to leave her little one with anyone so she could go back to work. Her mother had already made it clear that she’d look after the child when Barbara couldn’t, but those comments had always come with an air of judgment and bitterness that Barbara was messing up her life.

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