AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I try to think back to what could have triggered my stomach trying to claw its way out of my body, but I haven’t eaten anything unusual in the last few days. The leftovers I tried to eat are still good.
Maybe it’s just PMS.
No sooner does the thought cross my mind than I start doing the math. I met Jovan and slept with him not that long ago. My last period was… When was it? Have I had my period since meeting Jovan?
‘Fuck,” I say as I haul myself off the floor and wash my mouth out. “There is no way that this is happening. Not a fucking chance that this is happening to me right now. I don’t have the time to deal with this.”
I head into the kitchen and grab my phone. It only takes a few minutes to order the pregnancy tests.
As I wait for the tests to arrive, I pace around my apartment. Even though I’m trying to stay calm, it feels like the entire world is collapsing around me. I never thought that I would get pregnant from a one night stand. I thought that when I was ready to have children, it would be a conscious choice and not one that was made for me.
I don’t know I’m pregnant until I take the test. There’s no point worrying about having children until then.
A few minutes later, my phone starts ringing. I answer the call and press the button to buzz in the delivery guy.
The second he knocks on my door, my pulse pounds and my palms grow sweaty. I don’t know how the hell I’m going to finish my last year of university with a child.
Hundreds of other women do it every year. You can do it too. All you need to do is take the test and find out if you’re having a baby or not.
When I open the door, the delivery man is already gone. I pick up the small brown paper bag and take it inside, my hands shaking. As I open the bag, my chest constricts.
I pull out the tests I ordered and go to the washroom.
Three minutes later, I’m staring at three positive pregnancy tests.
There is no way that I’m telling Jovan about the baby. Our child is not going to be wrapped up in the cartel life.
10
JOVAN
Calling Hadley to my office in the middle of her shift might not be the right move, but I’m tired of watching men flirt with her on the cameras. I sigh and stare at the feed as she weaves through the dancing bodies to make her way to me.
Though I know I should have killed my interest in her, I can’t help it.
Secrets shroud her and keep her hidden from the world. I’ve heard the way she talks to the other employees when things get a little too personal. She detaches herself from them and finds any excuse she can to leave.
Everything personal, she avoids.
I want to know why.
Although, that isn’t the only reason why I want to see her more. I can’t get the night we spent together out of my head. Each time I think about it, equal parts lust and guilt run through me.
I was such a bastard to her that night but there was nothing else I could do. She was playing with fire and I had been more than happy to burn her. And then there was that situation during the gala. Fuck.
As she moves to another part of the club, a man steps in front of her and says something. Hadley’s face darkens for a brief second before she plasters on her charming smile and steps away from him.
The man reaches out and smacks her ass. Before she can turn on him, one of the men who work security for the club steps in. He escorts the man out of the club without so much as a slight hesitation.
If there is one thing I don’t tolerate at my clubs, it’s people harassing the staff.
The man who slapped Hadley’s ass the first night she worked had learned that quickly. I found him the next day and broke his hand.
Nobody puts their hands on her except me.
When the door opens, she smiles and steps inside. The second the door is shut behind her, the smile drops from her face. She looks like I’ve just kicked her favorite puppy.
“Hadley, good that you could step in here to see me. I was thinking that it’s time we talk about what else I require of you,” I say, crossing my arms and leaning back in my seat.
