Chapter 0004

“Are you okay?” I asked.

“Yea, it’s just that…uh...” Then she moved whatever she was holding to the camera lens and that was the moment I felt all the life leave my face.

“What is that?” I knew what it was, I wasn’t so dumb, but I just wanted her to clear it for me.

“It seems like the unprotected sex we had been having finally paid off.” She said and my heart started racing. Not like this, and most definitely not with her.

“You must be kidding me.” I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only man she was sleeping with, and maybe she had forged the test.

“I wish I was.” Then she moved back and pulled her tank top up and that was when I saw it. I was dumbfounded and my jaw was slacked.

There was just no way.

“I wasn’t planning on telling you because I wanted to get rid of it, but I realized you’re a billionaire you can take care of us, and if my calculations are right, it’s probably three or four months, I think it’s too grown for that period, but yea, you’re going to be a dad.” She said it so casually that I was almost pissing my pants.

My heart was beating so fast and I kept hoping and praying it was just a nightmare and that I was just a little too drunk, but it was neither of the two. She was pregnant, it could possibly not be for me, but she was pregnant no doubt.

So I didn’t say another word, I just hung up the call.

When I walked back to the party after a very long moment of staying outside hoping that was just some prank from Lilith, I found that everyone was gone. Millie was gone too, and I hadn’t even asked for her number.

I knew I could have asked for her number from Clarice, but the news I had received didn’t give me the luxury to try and chase another girl.

At that moment I remembered the warning Toby and Anthony his brother warned me about getting myself into deep shit if I kept sleeping with random girls. I was in that shit now.

Then I never talked to Millie or Lilith for a very long time, until months later when I received a call from the hospital. Lilith was giving birth and they needed the father, me, to sign the forms to approve her emergency Caesarian section.

I know I could have denied it. But I drove to the hospital as fast as I could and signed those damn papers.

Then hours later, I was introduced to my twin babies.

The moment I saw them in that nursery bed, I knew, my life was going to change forever, and I knew they were going to need me more than anything in this world. I didn’t need a DNA test to confirm they were mine, the bond was already there. I did do the paternity test after all, but it was just a confirmation of what I already knew.

I had two newborn children to take care of. I knew I had a lot of change to do with my life. My company was starting a new branch outside town. I was to become the new CEO, and I didn’t hesitate to grab that opportunity. I was going to grow in my career and I needed any extra money that I could make.

So, I made a deal with Lilith. One she couldn’t refuse and I moved out of town to start a new life.

It’s just amazing that years later the company picked up so well that we switched it to an independent running media house not affiliated to the main media company, and not only am I the CEO but I own half of the shares and to add to that, my two little babies are now grown up toddlers who mean the whole damn world to me.

I think when I asked Clarice to ask if her friend would like to apply for the job, I didn’t actually think she was going to. It has been years and I wanted to keep the promise I had made to her years ago. I know it was stupid of me to do that because it has been a long time. I haven’t seen her in years, but she is Clarice’s best friend and Clarice is married to my best friend, I saw the photos Clarice had posted on social media of them together, she is still as gorgeous as I saw her the first time. She looked happier even, and my stupid mind thought it would be a good idea to see her face to face. And now that she is here looking like a goddam goddess with a weirdly torn dress, I’m thinking maybe this was a bad idea.

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