Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 104252 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 521(@200wpm)___ 417(@250wpm)___ 348(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 104252 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 521(@200wpm)___ 417(@250wpm)___ 348(@300wpm)
Now, knowing what I know, I can breathe. I don’t care about this guy she was fucking or about being angry. I need her help, and it seems like she might need mine.
“I will have the prenup changed. I’ll marry you. If the baby is mine, you’ll still get the twenty million. If not, after a year, we’ll divorce, and I’ll give you five. Is that fair?”
She pulls out of my hold and looks me in the eyes. “What? Why?”
“It sounds like this guy isn’t in the picture anymore. Will he be there for the baby if it’s his?”
“No, I don’t think that will ever be an option,” she says sadly.
“Then I’m helping a friend. You have a baby who needs a stable financial future and I need to get married.”
“You need to get married? Since when?”
This is where I think fast and begin to lie. I don’t know if I can trust Kay with the real reason I need to take her as my wife. I need to protect my woman and child at all costs.
“There’s another clause on my trust. Another portion of the trust is released after I’m married. I have something I want to invest in, and I need more money to do so,” I say and shrug.
It’s not a complete lie. There is a marriage clause on the trust that unlocks a greater sum, but I have years to fulfill that clause. However, if she were to ask my mama about it, she would confirm the clause is real.
“So I get the money for me and the baby either way?” she asks cautiously.
“Yup, but we only need to stay married for a year. In a year, we’ll get divorced.”
“Okay, I’m in.”
CHAPTER 41
Got It Wrong
Kayleen
Three months later …
I sigh as I sit down in the restaurant to wait for my friend Emma Jean. My feet hurt and my belly is itching. At five months, my belly is beginning to pop.
I went for my first ultrasound today. Cam couldn’t be there. He’s in Atlanta with his team. I hated Atlanta from the moment we moved there, so I moved back home. Cam didn’t protest.
We’ve actually grown closer. Our friendship has slowly been rebuilding. Although I’m not sure we’ll ever get back the trust we once had.
Cam comes to Texas often to spend time with me and check on the baby. We look like a happy couple. However, we do put on our little squabbles for his mama.
Cam didn’t think it was smart to become a perfect couple out of the blue. I can’t say I’m not happy. I just really miss sex. Cam added to the revised prenup that there would be no sex.
I was taken aback by that, but I wasn’t going to blow everything because he didn’t want to sleep with me.
I can’t blame him. I did cheat on him for years. At this point, I’m happy with my little vibrator.
“Hello, Kayleen.”
I look up into the face of the man who just purred my name. I reach for my belly and cradle it as my heart begins to race. I got what I deserved with JR.
I can’t be in my feelings when I did the same thing to him and Cam. I blink back tears as I think of how much I miss him. I had so many hopes for us.
“Hi, JR. What are you doing here?”
He points to the seat across from me. “May I?”
I lick my lips and nod. He drops into the seat smoothly. He looks great.
“Why are you here?” I ask again.
“I might have called in a few favors. Simone asked Emma Jean to set this lunch up.”
“But why?”
“I need some closure. I don’t understand what happened. You cut me off. Blocked me. Then I found out you married Cam.
“What did I do? Is it the baby? You know I would have raised it as mine, right?”
He looks down at my swollen stomach. Anger fills me. I know I’m wrong for it, but I can’t convince myself otherwise. He cheated on me.
“I found out about the baby after. It had nothing to do with her,” I snap.
“After what, Kayleen? What went wrong?”
“That night I called you crying. I heard her. You didn’t hang up before I heard her.”
The pain of that night stabs me in the chest all over again. I swipe at my tears and take a deep breath. I don’t want to upset the baby.
JR’s expression goes from confused to sad. He reaches across the table to tuck a strand of hair behind my ear. I draw away from him and the sadness deepens.
“That was my mom. I had joined her on her trip and had to stay in her room because the resort was booked. I didn’t want to wake her so I was trying to whisper and make it out of the room. I banged my toe in the process.