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, my fingers unlocked the door just as Dante was about to knock

earlier but his blazer was shrugged off and the two buttons of his shirt had been popped open revealing a little of his

you were doing. His voice was so light yet filled

him just as his gaze ran down

top that I had on revealing my legs and a sliver of my stomach. I tried to hide behind the door but it was

mind 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 l*ps

was 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

asleep?” He asked looking around and not seeing her anywhere.

been one to linger around too late. I focussed on pouring some wine in to his glass and not at

not fixed on him I could feel his fixed on me. It was heavy and heated. my

carried the globe shaped grass to 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

it when the smell of Dante began permeating the air.

and I did the same. The garden was well lit and maintained

where I found him looking at me and not at

is a little tender but it doesn’t hurt too bad.” I shrugged

tensed and his face grew hard. I’m 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

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picking a fight with Adam. I may never. I threw

like a puppy” He gritted his teeth and I raised a sardonic brow

him per se but you dislike him being around me. I tested and with out so much of a doubt, he nodded catching me off

said with a straight face.

my head a shake and taking a sip of

you had it. My words hung in the space between us which had gotten smaller even though I didn’t

most regretful things I’ve done. His voice was soft.

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

throat, taking a sip of

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

would have never

another shot. I only stayed with for so long because I felt like I

me out at her mere request.” I scoffed

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

then maybe things would have been different. I didn’t know any better.” His breath fanned against my forehead as he spoke tickling

would matter as much as it did. I muttered,