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.

before I could decide against it, my fingers unlocked the door just as Dante was about

two buttons of his shirt had been popped open revealing a little of his skin. His eyes softened

His voice was so light yet

his gaze

a sliver of my stomach. I tried to hide behind the door but it was too late because

if I 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

way to allow him inside. I shut the door then moved to get a

Hayley asleep?” He asked looking around

linger around too late. I focussed on pouring

and heated. my skin

him holding it by the delicate stem and he took it, swirled it within the glass, before tasting in it. He nodded in approval the motioned for me to lead

Dante

the window looking at the garden view from there and I did the same. The garden

him where I found him looking at me and not at the garden as I thought he

is a little tender but it doesn’t hurt too bad.” I shrugged taking a sip of my drink.

so sorry about that, Sophia. You know I’d never ever hurt you intentionally.” He apologised and I wanted to scoff and remind him how he had hurt me so badly before.

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that I can forgive you but for constantly picking a fight with Adam. I may never. I threw him an amused

much like a puppy” He

me. I tested and with out so much of a doubt, he nodded catching me off

with

my head a shake and taking a sip of wine.

words hung in the space between us

I’ve done. His voice was soft. barely a whisper but his words were firm.

drop of regret that he felt. It was almost as if he were pained but

throat, taking a sip of his

who saved me all those years ago I would have never He caught himself running a hand through

never

I would have never given Phoebe another shot. I only stayed with for so long because I felt like I owed it to her when she returned.” He explained but what

to throw me out at her mere request.”

a step closer until we were an inch apart. So close that my arm could easily brush against his

maybe things would have been different. I didn’t know any

I muttered, annoyed that once again he blamed