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All Chapters of The Billionaire's Secret Baby : Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

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chapter 17

CASSIUS I stood in the hospital hallway, at a loss for what to do now. All I wanted to do was go back into the room and apologize again, to keep apologizing until I was sure she believed me. She had looked so pitiful, lying there unconscious for the past sixteen hours. The doctors had assured me that she wasn't in a coma, but rather her body was just exhausted from the physical trauma. Trauma that I'd caused. I felt a hot wave of shame rise up once again, followed closely by anger at myself. I took a deep breath. Anger was what got me into this mess. Losing my cool, especially in the middle of a hospital hallway, was the last thing I needed to do. I thought I'd be relieved when she woke up, but if anything, I felt worse. The way she had reacted to me... It was almost like she was afraid. Like even before she knew the accident was my fault, she instinctively shrank away from me. Her heart rate had spiked, for god's sake. And once she'd had a chance to gain her bearings, she'd made it
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chapter 18

"Why are you sitting outside in the cold after getting in a car accident?""I needed some air. Don't worry, I was almost completely unharmed."His eyes lingered on the bandage on my forehead."Doesn't look like it."I touched the bandage, remembering how I'd gotten the gash."Oh, no, this was after. I was reaching through the window of the other car.""You were what?" he asked, his eyes widening. I started to explain, and the whole story spilled out. About the accident, and the woman I'd injured, and how I was sure that she hated me now. And then about the rest of my day, how angry I'd been with Michelle, how betrayed I felt, and how mad I was at myself for letting my anger get the better of me.Scott listened silently, and when I was done, he let out a whistle."Cassius, you've had a terrible 24 hours." He paused as if digesting further and then said, "Are you hungry? Let's go get some food, okay?"I didn't feel hungry, but I nodded anyway. It's not like I had anything else to do."D
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chapter 19

DEIRA "Mommy, how long do you have to have those band-aids on your face?" Makayla was sitting at the foot of my bed, frowning at the bandages that were still covering the places on my forehead and cheek that had been cut in the car accident. I wondered for probably the fiftieth time if I should have let Dani bring her here. I had been worried it would only make her upset. Dani had insisted that it would make her more upset not to be able to see me at all. But watching her face as she expressed her obvious dislike for the bandages had me worried again that I was going to scar her for life with my scary post-crash face. "I'm not sure, baby. The doctors have to keep checking, and they'll let me know when I've healed enough to take them off." "Hmmm." Makayla narrowed her eyes and thought about this. I sighed. I was slowly piecing together what had been happening while I had been sleeping. I'd been brought here in an ambulance, which I didn't remember at all. They'd checked for intern
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chapter 20

At that moment, the door to the room opened, and my heart leapt into my throat.What is he doing here?I suppose it was my own fault that I didn't know his name, and therefore in my mind he was only Makayla's father. He'd left earlier that day and hadn't been back for hours. I was starting to hope he'd gotten the hint and wouldn't be back again. If only I'd gotten them to let me go home earlier, I would have been far away by now. Instead, here he was coming back into my room, anddear god, holdingflowers. He was dressed much more casually now, in a T-shirt and sweats. I would not have picked him for a sweatpants guy.Then I had a vivid flashback to that night in his room. He had been wearing sweatpants then...Get a grip, Deira,I told myself.Dani must have guessed this was the guy who caused the wreck, because she immediately stood up and crossed her arms. That indicated that no matter how impressed she was by the room, she wasn't planning to give him any credit. I watched her face fo
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chapter 21

CASSIUS It had been two days since I went to the hospital. Perhaps showing up with flowers and a whole car (even if it was just a rental) was not the most subtle way of trying to ingratiate myself to the woman? And yet, in my experience, overwhelming people with gifts worked most of the time. I was aware of how charming I could be, and how effective that was when I really dialed it up. After showering and eating that day at Scott's, I'd found myself alone at his place once he went back to work. I dozed for a while on the couch, but I kept waking up. When a few hours passed, I gave up, and texted Scott, asking him to send me the information for the private eye he had mentioned. If I wasn't going to know peace until I figured out why this woman felt so familiar, then it was best to just confront it head on. If I had to pay someone to dig up details, I would. Frustratingly, the P.I. warned me not to expect results for a few days. I offered to pay extra, and he insisted that it wouldn'
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chapter 22

He raised an eyebrow. "And you couldn't just ask her?" I was trying to look through the rest of the information, and he was starting to annoy me."She didn't want to see anyone. And the hospital has rules in place." Rules I'd already bent, but he didn't need to know that. "This is all the information you found? I'll write you a check. What was the amount?"He told me, and he gave me a few tips about how the information was organized and his number should I have questions before I was able to usher him out of the office. I sat back down and continued looking through the folder. Nothing jumped out at me. Single mom. No partner. Part-time jobs, one at a flower shop. That explained the commentary from her daughter. It was actually an impressive amount of information, just none that seemed to answer my question about who this woman was to me. I sighed, and flipped to the last page.This was all information about the daughter. It was perhaps scarily informative, including her name ("Makayla
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chapter 23

DEIRA "Deira, where did you put those hydrangeas?" I looked up from the tiny card I was filling out to go with the bouquet I had just prepared. I scanned the shop for my coworker and realized she was in the back room, calling through the open door. "Toward the back, in that little corner where we used to have the lemon trees," I called back. Then I returned to the card. I checked the message again from the customer's order sheet. It read: "I'm an idiot. Please forgive me." I sighed. "Please forgive me" was a common theme in the cards we sent with our arrangements, one of the most popular along with "sorry for your loss" and various gushing declarations of love. People assumed working in a flower shop was an overwhelmingly positive experience, surrounded by beautiful flowers. But the truth was, people buy flowers for all sorts of reasons, and you get the desperate apologies and heart-wrenching sympathy along with all the lovey-dovey stuff. At least it was true that the flowers were
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chapter 24

We got back to Dani's and I got Makayla started on her homework before launching into the job applications. I was filling out at least three a day, basically anything that seemed like they might hire me, whether it was a good fit or not. So far, I'd gotten nothing in response. That weekend, I had plans to scour a few neighborhoods for local shops that were hiring. A lot of them didn't put their jobs online, but just placed signs in their windows. That was how I'd found the flower shop job.After I exhausted the job search options, I looked over my budget again. I'd already eliminated basically everything but rent, food, and bills, but it still wasn't enough. It was time to start seeing which bills I could let slide for a month or two. It occurred to me that because we were staying with Dani, it wouldn't matter if they turned off the electricity. We were already behind a month, so I might as well let it lapse while we weren't there. I figured they'd charge me a fee to restart it, but h
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chapter 25

CASSIUS The first thing I did when I got back to Scott's was call the private investigator. I explained that I had some urgent business I needed to settle with Deira, but that I couldn't find her. I relayed the whole conversation with the neighbor. It took some persuading, but he finally agreed to look into it. I hung up and paced the guest room, my head spinning. If this kid was mine, that meant I had missed five years of her life. Not only that, but the first five years, and all the other firsts that come with them: first birthday, first tooth, first word. And who knows what she knew about me. Did I even exist to her? I tried to calm myself by making an action plan. The first step was to find Deira and Makayla. The next step was to get a paternity test. And then... I paused, stumped. What came after that? If she was my daughter, should I force my way into their life? I had no intention of disappearing, but I also had no idea how we would go forward. I threw myself onto the bed
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chapter 26

I imagined finally finding her and confronting her. I thought about all the things I had to say to her. Maybe it wasn't her fault that she couldn't find me. Now, by some miracle, we'd met again. To have the audacity not to say anything to me, to have actually let me meet my kid without either of us even knowing it...I wanted to give her a piece of my mind. I wanted to hear what she had to say for herself.I wanted to...Something stirred within me, something just as fierce as my anger, just as hot. It turned out that imagining yelling at Deira just became... imagining Deira, here, in front of me. It turned out that six years on, she still had the ability to make me want her, even when she wasn't even here.The details of that night had faded over the years, but I could still remember her eyes, looking up at me. And I could still remember how itfelt. When she was on her knees, in front of me. When I was on my knees, making her scream with pleasure. When she was beneath me, and I was i
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