The Baby Pact (Babies and Billions Book 5) by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Zach

“Can I come over?”

It had been hours since Zach had received the text, and he still couldn’t seem to stop looking at it, making sure that it was real.

He had left work early and hurried back to his house to clean up. Fortunately, he usually kept a pretty tidy house, so there wasn’t that much to do, but in the past month he had been letting things slide. It was hard to stay focused on doing the vacuuming when you were suffering from a broken heart.

But now this.

She wanted to see him again.

She wanted to speak to him again.

Whatever had happened between the two of them, she wanted to put it behind her.

Zach wondered whether he was finally going to get some answers to the questions that had been chasing one another around inside his mind for the past month. Was she going to tell him why she had stopped returning his calls, why she had completely ghosted him?

She can’t possibly expect that we’re just going to pick up right where we left off.

He had told her to come over at seven, and at six fifty-nine on the dot, the doorbell rang. Struggling to control his anxiety, Zach hurried to answer the door.

And there she was.

Rhea looked as beautiful as ever, and Zach wanted to fling his arms around her, but he restrained himself. He stood back and allowed her to come inside.

I’m not going to speak, he told himself firmly as she stepped over the threshold. I’m not going to say anything until she says something first.

He wasn’t going to give her the satisfaction of hearing him beg for an explanation. Not after the way he had been treated. She was going to have to ask for whatever it was she had come here to get from him.

“Your house is amazing,” she said quietly, looking around. “It’s really beautiful.”

Zach couldn’t help himself. “Is that why you’re here?” he asked. “To talk about my house?”

Rhea shook her head. “No,” she said. “I guess I was just… making small talk.”

“So we’re back to small talk?” Zach asked. “After everything you and I have been through, now we’re going back to talking like people who hardly know each other?”

Rhea’s eyes filled with tears. “Zach, I don’t know what else to do here.”

“You didn’t have enough time to think about that while you were ignoring me for a solid month?”

The tears spilled over. Rhea buried her face in her hands.

Zach cursed himself. He hadn’t intended to let things go this way. He had been so determined to keep silent. But he had failed. Almost as soon as he had seen her, he had started giving her a hard time.

“Come on,” he said gruffly. “Let’s go sit in the living room.”

She nodded and followed him. He could see that she was looking around the house, taking it in. If they had still been close, he would have explained to her that he had purchased this giant place as an investment, but that he only used a few of the rooms.

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