Most Eligible Single Dad - A Billionaire's Secret Baby Romance by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Tanya

There he was, all six feet, muscled frame, black hair and green eyes of him. Exactly as I remembered him from the last time I’d seen him. Raul waved a hand in a half-hearted measure and hesitated before retaking his seat in the booth on the left side of the room.

As I reached the booth, a server met me there.

“Welcome to Harry’s. What can I get for the two of you?”

Raul gave me a hard look.

“Tequila, Tanya?”

“No, thank you. I’ll have a lemon soda, please.”

“I’ll have the same, thanks. We won’t need refills, so don’t interrupt us again.”

I shot Raul a look, but the server seemed unaffected by the curt response. He smiled at us and moved off to get our drinks.

“That was rude,” I said, trying to take a little indignation and turn it into the strength to face what I needed to do here.

“High praise, coming from you, don’t you think?”

So that was how this was going to go? It would be all right. I really didn’t deserve anything less than his contempt, anyway.

The server left the drinks, and I toyed with my glass for several silent moments. Raul did the same until the silence seemed to grate on him too much, and he looked up and took a deep breath.

“Why?”

A single word and yet I knew exactly what he wanted, deserved, to know.

“Not for the reasons you might think,” I said.

“I think you did it for the money. That is what my private investigator told me. That the two of you are in the same line of work.”

“He was right. After I quit the NYPD, I got my PI’s license.”

“You were a police officer?”

“I was. So was my father. You might not know it, but widow’s benefits, even when the cop dies on the job, aren’t much.”

“What does that have to do with why you betrayed my daughter and me?”

I stopped for a moment, attempting to collect my thoughts into something that would make sense. I tried to meet his eyes, but I couldn’t. It was too hard to see those green orbs snapping with anger and disappointment. Instead, I focused on my hands where I’d wrapped them around my glass. I traced the sides of the glass, forcing water droplets to race to the table. When I was silent for too long, Raul reached out and took the glass from my hands.

“I deserve answers, Tanya. I’ve asked for them. Now don’t you think you owe them to me?”

“I do. It’s just hard to speak the words. I’m afraid they’ll mean an end to everything.”

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“Until very recently, my mother lived in a third-floor walk-up in the Bronx. If she wanted to leave her building, she had to struggle with almost forty stairs each way. At her age, with bad lungs and a bad knee, she just wasn’t handling those stairs well anymore.”

Raul said nothing, so I went on.

“My company wasn’t doing well. I was having trouble making

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