All Chapters of THE CEO'S PAWN: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

Ryder's been having a really rough week and everyone around him knew it, especially at the office. His mood was constantly sour and he went off at the slightest provocations.He was that boss nobody wanted to have to deal with and it bothered everyone else but him.Well, that's what everyone thinks but it wasn't exactly true.Ryder knew he's been hell to deal with recently, and honestly, he didnt want to be but he couldn't help it because he had no fucking idea how to deal with the root of his problems.God, he missed her.He needed her to the point where it hurt.But she was asking him for the impossible.He couldn't give her what she was asking for, couldn't strip himself that bare to the point of absolute vulnerability.He was almost certain she would leave if she heard the truth she was asking him for.Fuck, if she listen to him crumple the man she thought she knew and hand her the damaged little boy still screaming inside from years of abuse both their parents had perpetrated, he

It was a moment before a doctor came out of the room to join Ryder and Karen and then another before he proceeded to take just Ryder to his office, while Karen went in to stay with Bree.While Ryder needed to know what was going on and all, he kinda wished he could stall this moment just a little bit longer, at least until he thinks he's ready to deal with whatever will be hauled at him.But he couldn't, his baby girl's life depended on this, their baby's too and he knew he had to be brave for them.The doctor's office wasn't any sort of calming for him like he'd expected it'd be, at least not with all the posters adorning the walls, displaying varieties of images of pregnant women, pregnancy complications and information on them and a lot of birth defects.In a passing thought, he knew it'd be more comforting for any person to not have to look at them right before receiving any information about their pregnant partner that's fighting for their life and that of their baby.But that was

Bree was out of it for a while after the whole surgery, no thanks to the anaesthesia she'd been administered prior and for a while all she had were flashes in between.She was drifting in and out of the anaesthesia induced sleep, her eyelids fluttering every now and again, while she gained consciousness slowly as the thing eventually wore off.It took a bit of recollecting to remember she was in the hospital, how she'd got here and what exactly had been going on before she went under the knife.Her hands went immediately to her bump despite the pain she felt in the entirety of her body, and she knew immediately that it was different.It felt almost as if a very vital part of her being was missing and she knew that it infact was.Ryder had said something to her about the doctor advising that they have the baby today for safety reasons.Wait, he'd said babies, a fact that she still found both overwhelming and hard to believe.All these months, from the very start, she'd believed she was

Larry and Ollie were the most eccentric, unsuspectingly gay men that Ryder has ever been opportune to meet in his entire life and they were way cooler than he'd been expecting too.They were nothing like he'd imagined them in his head and they were way nicer than he gave them credit for.He'd had no idea who the fuck they were when he'd thrown his door open to them because he and Bree were not expecting them for another week or so, but they'd been quick to curb his curiosity with an explanation and then introduction.He wasn't exactly sure that they didnt hate him or at least despise his ass for that time he'd been God awful to Bree who they rather refer to as their girl, he couldn't tell from their expressions, but if they did, they were darn good at hiding it.In his opinion, they were cool dudes who he wouldn't mind getting acquainted to in the long run and he had a feeling somewhere inside that that was going to happen sooner rather than later, thanks to his baby girl.They'd flown

Coming back to the room after he'd been in the study for a while hadn't been in the plan when Ryder had started working this morning.If anything, he'd had every plan of going to check on Karen and their visitors just to be sure they were fine and didn't need anything, but he'd found himself going upstairs instead.He could blame it on his impatience to break the news of his new contract to Bree or on his thoroughly thought out pretext of needing an aspirin from the medicine cabinet in their bathroom.But either one it was, it saw him up the stairs and back into the room he'd only just left not too long ago.No wonder this working from home thing wasn't exactly working out well for him.He's been so easily tempted by the knowledge that she was only in a next room or something and recently he's found his control wearing thinner and thinner everyday.He'd made it up the stairs and back into the room with the news hanging at the tip of his tongue, but to his surprise, she wasn't in it.It