BAILEE I laid awake for a while with Alex curled up against my back, softly snoring away. The sound usually lulled me to sleep, but not this time. This time, I was wide awake, riddled with guilt. Caleb would have gotten so mad at me, but Alex didn’t care one bit. It was like he expected me to c
ALEXANDER I was shocked to find Bailee wasn’t there when I woke up. Since finding out she was pregnant, she had been sleeping like the dead, and her body seemed to have its own timer. She slept until around eight, but then she couldn’t go back to sleep no matter how tired she was. It was cute see
BAILEE I regretted it the instant the words came out of my mouth. All of my irrational thoughts and paranoia came crashing down as the room fell silent, and I could swear I could hear Alex’s heart stop as he realized that he had impregnated a crazy woman. “What is happening right now?” Daniel,
BAILEE Alex got a call from the office right after our conversation, and I used the excuse to escape the situation. I was in Brinley’s room to get her up and ready for daycare. I was very careful to avoid everyone in the house as I dressed her, grabbed a homemade breakfast bar for Brinley, and go
BAILEE “Your what?” Alex’s voice made all three of us jump and turn toward the doorway leading to the store. “You’re here!” I exclaimed with unreasonable excitement as I stood, my feet protesting the movement as my belly bumped the desk and stumbled back slightly. My eyes landed on the paper ba
BAILEE “That went better than I imagined it would,” Lacey said as Alex and Vivian left to return to the Elite office. My stomach growled as I stared at the brown paper bag on my desk, and I couldn’t resist rushing around to my seat to dig in. The paper crinkled as I opened it, and the smell of th
ALEXANDER Leaving Bailee was harder than I had anticipated. I had never cared before for anyone else’s input regarding how I ran my business as an individual. Their opinions on my actions were of little mind to me. The actions I took for the business were a different story. I would have meeting a
ALEXANDER “I told you she would break him,” Bash said, his voice coming through the speakerphone as I sat staring at Mason in my visitor’s chair. “She didn’t break me.” Mason snapped back, sounding appalled by the accusation. “You want her. You’ve never wanted anyone before, not for more than a
EPILOGUE “Go, go, go!” Sebastian screamed from next to me, standing and leaning over the person in front of him as if Ben could hear him over the crowd and the glass. Then again, with how loud the man was, he just might. I had only known Bash in passing from when I worked for Ben as his assista
HAVEN ONE MONTH LATER My eyes kept moving from the woman before me to the clock on the wall behind her. I wanted to be here, but I had more important places to be. She had run over with her last client, which made us run over and caused me to be late for an important game. Ben had been stressin
BEN Haven was empty for the next few weeks as she flew back and forth, cleaning out the house her ex-husband had left her. It had been Cynthia’s home, too, and Haven had been taking extra care and devotion to ensuring things were handled and gone through properly. I had gone with her a few times,
HAVEN Her hand was cold, and I adjusted her blanket to cover her arm. The lawyers had come in and refused to admit any fault of the hospital, even though Cynthia had her ID on her and even knew one of the paramedics who brought her in for them to have given the hospital her name. They should ha
HAVEN Sitting in the airport in the middle of the night with a toddler who got angry each time the loudspeaker called for another flight and disturbed her sleep was not what I had been prepared for. My mind was a foggy mess. All I could picture was Cynthia falling down the stairs. How long had sh
BEN Being excited about an ex getting involved in my life might not have been the best thing when things were already tense, but fuck did it feel good to know I did indeed have friends in high places and they were watching my back. Was I still expecting them to hold it over me and try to get me t
BEN It was odd pulling up to the house and finding there wasn’t a single paparazzi in sight. After today’s news, I expected them to be ready to break down my gate for a story, but no one was there. Instead, a blacked-out SUV sat across the street, and my stomach twisted when I realized it was pro
HAVEN I needed to get out of the house. Staying inside was driving me crazy, and I couldn’t take it anymore. My last job interview was a week ago, and while I keep applying, no one wants to hire the woman all over the tabloids with a sex tape. Our PR team managed to get it taken down, but it stil
BEN “Rangers player Benjamin Evans is today’s hot topic. Now fans were petitioning for him to be traded for his performance last season. Even I wanted him gone, and I’ve followed his career since he was being scouted.” The reporters around him laughed, and I gritted my jaw. “I know. I remember hi