My Billionaire's Secret Dreams by Nikki Larson

Author:Nikki Larson [Larson, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The frittata was finally done less than an hour later. They had the fruit salad first, to ward off their hunger.

“You like it?” Jaxton asked when they were sitting at the sleek, modern kitchen table with a bouquet of fresh flowers in the center.

“Delicious,” Sylvia agreed.

“So, what made you stop by to see me this morning?” Jaxton ventured to ask. Surely something prompted her to drive over to his house. Usually she made no time for him. She’d spent years just trying to avoid him.

“Oh, that,” she said, blinking. “There was something,” she allowed as she took a sip of her freshly squeezed orange juice.

“I thought there was,” he replied. No need to scare her off by saying more. She seemed so unsteady suddenly.

She tucked a strand of brown hair behind her ear and gazed out the window. Her crystal blue eyes seemed lighter with the sunlight pouring in and reflecting off of her irises. Finally, she met his gaze. “I think I’m ready to tell you something.”

“You are?” he said, and immediately kicked himself for it. He pressed his lips together to shut himself up and nodded, leaning back in his chair to give her some space and lacing his fingers behind his head to seem casual, like everything was totally fine. She needed that reassurance.

“Do you remember when you said you thought I had been through something – something dark?” she asked him.

He nodded slowly. She looked so beautiful and vulnerable just then, with her smooth skin shimmering in the light and the hint of peach blush on her cheeks. Those pouty lips were riling him up, making him want to take her into his arms again and kiss her, make her forget all her troubles. “Yes,” he replied, keeping his voice even.

“I had a miscarriage,” she told him. Her voice cracked at the word and her eyes glistened with tears.

“Oh, I had no idea,” Jaxton said. The thought of her being intimately involved with someone else was like a dagger through his heart. But he had to overcome that at the moment. This wasn’t about him. It was about her, and her pain. Not his, fresh though it was.

“Yes,” she continued, her eyes fraught with sadness. “You know Kyle Haggar, the college football quarterback?”

“UCXB?” he asked. Yeah, he knew him. “He played for the Brights. Star player.”

“Well, I knew him, too, unfortunately.” She searched his eyes and he could see she was distressed. “I dated him for a while. Not long. Long enough,” she added bitterly, then covered her mouth as if what she was going to say next was unspeakable. Her voice was quiet as she relayed the story. “Long enough for him to make me miserable.” She blinked several times and her eyes were shrouded in darkness. “He was abusive. So abusive, in fact, that I lost the baby.” At those final words, Sylvia’s beautiful face contorted and she let out a sob.

“Oh, here, Sylvia,” Jaxton said, reaching out to hold her. “Here, come here.

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