Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 30

I swirled the glass of water in the double walled glass before downing it to wash down the meds for pain and infection. The visit to the ER was brief which I was more than thankful for. I didn’t break my nose but it has swelled a tad bit because of the impact of Dante’s fist to my nose. Some ice had helped to reduce the swelling and now it was just a bruise.

I couldn’t think of heading back to the office and neither did I want either of the men that I was with to drive me back home. Against both of their protest, I call an uber and got home in the early afternoon. Hayley was shocked to see me come home so carly during the day but she also had plenty questions about i nose.

Naturally, I made up a story about me missing a step and falling to the floor nose first and she was

the

very apologetic about it but I assured her that I was okay. I took a nap after that to sleep. Was

stress of the morning then woke up to have supper with Hayley and put her to bed.

With her out and asleep, I cracked open a bottle of wine and decided to enjoy it by myself as I binge watched some mindless sitcom that I didn’t had to pay too much of attention to.

I carried the bottle with me to the living room and rested my head against the cushions. Moving back to New York was bound to hold its own challenges and difficulties but I didn’t think they would prove to be so trying.

Between trying to resurrect the business that I had now owned and managing Dante, it was all proving too much. I expected Pheobe to work on my nerves more than Dante had been but there was some thing about him and his inability to leave me alone.

Initially, I thought that he was merely trying to annoy me but recently its like he was just looking for any sort of excuse to be around. As much as I tried to ignore it, he looked at me differently recently and it was a look that I knew all too well. I also knew that it was one that was better left

unnamed.

A part of me was still holding on to resentment of the past but there was also some thing about being around Dante again. Despite my fury for him, some thing deep within me yearned for him in a way that I hadn’t yearned for another man before. I hated it because I knew that I couldn’t have him again.

The thought made me down my glass and pour another. I didn’t want Dante to do a paternity test. He already had strong suspicions as to Hayley being his but I didn’t want proper papers and medical tests proving it. If Hayley became the reason that Dante discarded Phoebe or stopped being as present for her because of her, who knew what Pheobe would do. She already tried her hand when she found out I was pregnant and if she came to know that the child she tried to kill in my stomach had lived jeopardizing her grand plan then she would be furious.

I didn’t even know why Dante was with her still. Pheobe and him were visually unhappy to even the most aloof bystander. She was bitter with a motive and Dante was just there.

The thought of them together made me down another glass and I poured myself a third. I was just about to sip from it when heard some thing like a knock sound against the front door. I paused thinking that I had imagined it then heard it again. Three rythmic knocks followed by a pause before it sounded again.

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I rose to my feet, glass in my hand, and sauntered over to the front door. I leaned forward to see. who it could be at this hour and, much to my surprise, it was Dante standing on my front porch.

deal with him right now but before I could decide against it,

his blazer was shrugged off and the two buttons of his shirt had been popped open revealing a little of his skin. His eyes softened

were doing. His voice was so light yet filled with tenderness at the

him just as his gaze ran down the rest of

was immediately aware of the shorts and tank top that I had on revealing my legs and a sliver of my stomach. I tried to hide behind the door but it was too late because Dante had

come inside?” He asked being the most courteous I’ve ever heard him be. “Maybe have some of that wine you’ve got there.” A small smirk toyed about his

being held open and I moved out of his way to allow him inside. I shut the door then moved to get a glass for him from the cabinet.

asleep?” He asked looking around and

late. I focussed on pouring some

his fixed on me. It was heavy and heated. my skin until I felt it in my shoulders and

within the

regretted it when the smell of Dante began permeating the air. I should have lead him to the garden outside or even

the same. The garden was

hurt still?” Dante’s voice snapped my attention away from the garden and back to him where I found him looking at me and not at the

doesn’t hurt too bad.” I shrugged taking a sip of

never ever hurt you intentionally.” He apologised and I wanted to scoff and remind him how

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for constantly picking a fight with Adam. I may never. I

my nerves. I hate seeing him around you so much like a puppy” He gritted his teeth and I raised

around me. I tested and with

said with

head a shake and taking a

blew your chance when you had it. My words hung in the space between us which had gotten smaller even though I didn’t recall moving neither had I

I know. One of the most regretful things I’ve done. His voice was soft. barely a whisper but his words

that he felt. It was almost as if he were pained but he blinked and it was all gone away just

taking a sip of his drink

Had I known that it was you who saved me all those years ago I would have never He caught himself running

have never what?” I

stayed with for so long because

mere request.” I

ticked and this time I saw him take a step closer until we were an inch apart. So close that my arm

I didn’t know any better.” His breath fanned against my forehead as he spoke tickling

matter as much as it did. I muttered, annoyed that once again he blamed me