Russian Billionaire's Secret Baby by Lia Lee

Author:Lia Lee [Lee, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Russian Billionaire Romance
Publisher: Lia Lee
Published: 2018-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Aurora

I’d tried.

I’d tried to tell him everything. His apology had been so sweet, his eyes so warm and kind and relieved when I’d told him I forgave him…

But at that last second, I’d frozen up. It was like I hit a block in my brain every time I opened my mouth to let those words out. I thought about the years he’d missed, how much it was going to hurt him. I thought about how angry he might be. But then again, he seemed like a new man.

Scratch that—not a new man, an improved version of the man I’d loved all those years ago.

The man I still loved. Who was I kidding? I still loved him.

“You seem a million miles away.”

His voice pulled me back in. I’d been working so hard at my desk that he’d managed to sneak up on me and surprise me. When he’d asked me to lunch, that little bit of my brain that usually screamed for me to be careful had been stunned, and another voice had whispered that it would be fun.

And here we were, eating lunch at this little pace he knew that reminded me of the café we’d loved so in college.

“You know, it seems like you never really moved on,” I said.

His brows knitted together.

I struggled to find the words to explain myself. “The cottage and garden are like the ones from college. You said this is your favorite spot, and well…” I glanced around, spreading my palms a bit. “It’s like you’re stuck back then.”

He took a sip of his coffee, staring down into the cup like the answers would form in the tiny bubbles around the dark rim. When his eyes met mine again, they were haunted.

“I am. I’m stuck in that night.” His Adam’s apple bobbed, and he cupped the hot mug like it was the most delicate thing he’d ever held.

“I can’t forget how we ended.” He took another drink, shifting in his chair like he was uncomfortable. Knowing who he was, I knew that discussing feelings had been taboo in his home, and that it wasn’t something he spoke easily about.

As a boy, he’d grown up in Russia in a small speck of dust-sized city called Kasimov. His grandmother was the only one he’d really connected with, and his stories of her were always my favorite. Extreme poverty, parents that were not the loving type like I’d been blessed with, and a rough life had pushed him to succeed.

Losing his beloved grandmother was the thing that had broken him. He’d promised her he’d take his art as far as he could, and I’d met him not long after. His English was incredible for someone self-taught, and I’d quickly found myself in a position where I’d been asked to help tutor him.

I’d refused the offer to tutor him and had become his friend instead—then his lover.

“I shouldn’t have left like I did.” I regretted my role in the way we’d ended too.

I regretted the way I’d come into his life too.

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