Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 95

The pregnancy test landed on Luca’s desk with a soft thud, the small padded envelope looking innocuous enough.

Until he opened it. Normally his secretary would have opened all his mail before he got it, but this package had been marked personal and confidencat Or Sally would hadn’t opened it just leaving it on his desk. He wished she hadn’t.

Two bold pink lines stared back at him, mocking him with their undeniable truth, making his blood run cold.

“Fucking bitch,” he muttered, tossing the test in the bin like it was contaminated. She’d lied. Played him for a fool. Tried to trap him with some other

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guy’s kid. She’d probably been screwing this asshole behind his back the whole time. It explained why she’d never left her modeling career. Never come away with him when he had asked. Now he understood her tears.

Some women were nothing but manipulative whores. He tossed the padded envelope in the bin with the test for good measure. Audrey was clearly another one of them.

He turned back to his work, trying to bury the anger. The hurt. The betrayal. He scrubbed a hand down his face, trying to wipe away the image of her shock. Her fake tears. Because now he understood them perfectly–not tears of sadness, but of calculation. She’d wanted to palm some dickhead’s baby off as his. Was he the richer catch? Was that her game?

It didn’t matter how she had played it, all innocent and seductive. He’d thought she at least respected him more than to pull that type of crap. But now his world seemed… wrong somehow. The trust that had been so easily given to her–now broken. It would be a very long time before he ever trusted a woman again.

The thing he didn’t get was why she had sent the test to him in the first place. It didn’t make sense. He had caught her out–so why send him physical proof of her lies? She had to know he wouldn’t be happy for her. Not if the baby wasn’t even his. If anything, it made him sick with the thoughts of her with another man… or men. How the hell would he know if this was the first bastard she’d been with?

He hadn’t given her much time to defend herself. He had just needed to get out of the apartment. Get away from her.

He looked at his bin. His gut twisted.

What if… what if it actually was his?

But no. That wasn’t right. Because she’d had her period a few days before he’d flown out of the country.

Hadn’t she?

No fucking way. It wasn’t his.

He stared at the door. His gut felt heavy now. That sick, gnawing pressure of needing to be sure. He couldn’t shake the nagging twist in his brain.

The thought of her carrying another man’s child–it was more than his ego could take. It was enough to make his blood boil all over again.

Which was stupid. He had been at her apartment to end things with her.

He retrieved the test from the bin.

What if…

grabbed for his phone. He needed

he said the moment his cousin picked up.

his cousin, a gynecologist, replied.

I have a question.

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me to ank about the birds and

Thin is serious. Can a woman still bleed… like, have

The line went quiet.

said finally, “who

Just answer the question.”

It’s not common,

violently Alessandro flinched on

be before she’d realize?” Luca asked quietly, dreading

later. Luca, is this something I should

tightened around the pregnancy test. “Fuck. Thanks. I need to go.” He hung

the test again. The two pink lines were still very

sure. One

number, heart

It barely rang.

number you have dialed is

His stomach dropped.

had only called him yesterday on this number. Calls and voicemails he

now… Luca’s blood turned

telling the truth. That he was

of lying. Of cheating. He’d called her names

sleeping

last words to each other kept

watching him pace back and forth across the carpet. She’d left the door slightly ajar, just enough to hear his phone call

eavesdropping–but it was part of

was going on.

and she knew exactly how to acquire it. And how to

agitated, quieter than she had ever seen him. Nicole wasn’t sure if it was the engagement. It shouldn’t have been. That

But now?

Now it made sense.

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gotten some

That was a problem.