All Chapters of Billionaire Boss? Nah, Just A Possessive Husband!: Chapter 321 - Chapter 330

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Chapter 321 Lochlan’s POV: Cold-Hearted, Self-Serving Bitch

‘She called in this morning,’ Kai said over the phone. ‘Said she wasn’t feeling well. Timothy’s covering her meetings.’I looked out the window at London’s grey midmorning sky. ‘If she’s still not in tomorrow, go to the flat. Make sure she’s alright.’‘Of course.’ A pause. ‘Though I think, if I’m being honest, she’d rather it was you than me.’‘I’ll go and see her,’ I said. ‘After.’I didn’t say after what. Kai didn’t ask, which was one of the reasons I valued him.I ended the call and sat with the phone in my hand for a moment, thinking about Hyacinth calling in sick, which she almost never did.A knock at the door.I put the phone down and went to answer it.She looked different from the photographs. Smaller, somehow. Dyed dark hair cut short, wearing a coat that had been expensive once.She walked past me into the room without being invited and looked around like someone pricing things up.‘Why a hotel?’ She tsk-tsked. ‘I’d have preferred a restaurant. I’m starving.’‘I have no inte

Chapter 322 Irrevocably Pregnant

The doctor had kind eyes and a very calm voice and she explained the report to me patiently, thoroughly.Even though I hadn’t needed her to.I thanked her, promised vaguely to think about scheduling regular prenatal check-ups, then walked out into the street.This was the fourth clinic in three days.They had all said the same thing.The home pregnancy test I’d done in my bathroom at two in the morning three days ago had also said the same thing, which meant I had now received the same information five times and still couldn’t quite make it feel real.I was pregnant.We had always been careful. Always.Except that one night, in that bathtub.We’d skipped protection just that one time, and boom, I got pregnant.Just my luck.Though was it bad luck really? Was that the right word for it, a potential new life – was that something you called bad luck?I turned that over as I walked. The pavement was wet from earlier rain and I stepped around a puddle without registering I’d done it.Would

Chapter 323 Early Birthday Surprise

Portia waved a hand in front of my face. ‘Yeah, it’s me. Not a mugger.’‘How did you—’‘I followed you from the hospital.’I stared at her. ‘What?’‘Kai called me. Said you’d been sick, asked me to check in on you.’ She gave me a look. ‘Which made me think, hold on, why don’t I know my best friend is sick? Why hasn’t she called me? Smelling a rat, I went round to yours this morning. You walked right past me outside your building, by the way. Didn’t even clock me.’‘I didn’t notice.’‘Obviously. You’ve been in a complete daze since you left the flat. I watched you nearly step in front of a bus on Marylebone Road.’‘Oh.’‘Are you going to hand me those papers or do I have to take them from you by force?’I looked down. I was still holding the doctor’s report. I’d been clutching it since I left the clinic, apparently.Slowly, I held it out.Portia read it.‘Fuck,’ she said.‘Yeah,’ I agreed. ‘That’s about where I am.’‘What are you going to do?’I turned to look at her. ‘Does my face look

Chapter 324 Is He Telepathic or Something?

‘I genuinely don’t know.’‘About the baby,’ Mum said, ‘or about Lochlan?’‘Either. Both.’ I exhaled. ‘He’ll want to get married. I know he will. Probably ask me before I’ve finished the sentence. And I don’t know if that’s… I don’t know if that’s what I want. I don’t know if I’m ready for that.’‘Why not?’ Dad asked. ‘You like him, don’t you? The man clearly thinks the world of you. And he seems like the decent sort.’‘He is decent.’ This was not the problem. ‘He’s… Look, on paper Lochlan Hastings is practically without flaw. He’s thoughtful, he’s steady, he’s never once said anything deliberately unkind to me, he remembers everything I tell him, he’s never tried to undermine my work or make me feel like I’m less than—’ I stopped. I was making my own case for him and that wasn’t the point. ‘Cary was impressive on paper too.’Silence.‘Lochlan is not Cary,’ Portia said, from her witness position on the sofa.‘I know that. I know he’s not Cary. But I didn’t know Cary was Cary until I was

Chapter 325 Lochlan’s POV: I Was a Test Subject

‘So.’ Mum clasped her hands – her professorial signal for me to start talking.I looked at her.She was about the same age as Helen, but if you put them side by side, you’d think they were a well-preserved middle-aged woman and her very elderly aunt.She didn’t have the haggard, sallow skin pockmarked with spots that Helen did – the inevitable toll of decades spent in a chemical haze. The crow’s feet around her eyes made her look wise instead of weary.We had different eye colours and different face shapes. She enjoyed the company of others; I preferred keeping the world at arm’s length.Neither she nor Dad had ever exhibited the same compulsive streak that’s haunted me since I was old enough to understand the concept of addiction.Yet I was her son, in every sense that mattered.‘I met a woman called Helen yesterday,’ I said. ‘She’s the one who shoved you into the pond at the masked ball.’‘I assume you didn’t pull me out of an international conference just to tell me the culprit’s be

Chapter 326 What Baby?

I dragged my feet on the way to the office.Having taken more than a week’s leave of absence without a valid excuse, had I been my own boss, I’d have sacked myself.But Lochlan was my boss, and he wasn’t going to sack me.I hoped.When he’d called me last night saying we needed to talk, I’d no idea why I suggested we do it at the office.Maybe the familiar environment was supposed to help.Or, maybe – though I didn’t want to admit it to myself – I knew he was less likely to go spare when he was surrounded by employees and files.Not that I expected him to lose his cool – he never did – but one never knew how a man might react to news of an unexpected pregnancy.When I reached the building, I paused at the scanner, wondering if my employee pass was still valid.Thankfully, the scanner beeped dutifully and the doors slid open.‘Excuse me.’I turned around at the sound.The woman was standing right behind me, so close I could see the faint plume of condensation from her breath.I hadn’t h

Chapter 327 I’m Not Going to Marry You

‘The baby I’m carrying!’I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen.Was I carrying a crack baby? Would I even be able to carry it to full term?And here I was, still wobbling on the fence about whether to have it or not, when the decision might well have been taken out of my hands entirely.I should have taken the doctor’s advice, should have gone for the full check-up straight away, then I’d have known about it sooner. Maybe then I’d have—‘Hyacinth.’ Lochlan plucked the phone from my hand and set it down. With both hands on my shoulders, he pressed me gently back into the armchair. ‘Tell me.’‘Tell you what?’‘The baby. You’re… you’re pregnant.’I ran a hand over my face. ‘Yeah.’I told him about the clinic visits, showed him the report in triplicate.He read it. Then he read it again.I didn’t wait for him to finish the second read. ‘How long were they using? Your biological parents. What were they on – was it heroin, cocaine, both? What state were they in when you were born, do

Chapter 328 Brace for Impact

‘What if I’m... what if I’m never ready?’‘Then the box stays in the safe.’I stood up. My legs felt like string cheese on a hot day.‘I need some time,’ I croaked out. ‘To think. Alone.’‘Of course.’Lochlan stepped toward the desk, his hand hovering over the intercom. ‘I’ll have someone escort you home.’‘I don’t want a security detail.’‘Hyacinth—’‘I’ll call you. Later.’ I picked up my bag, my fingers trembling against the leather. ‘I mean it, Lochlan. I need to think and I can’t do it with two of Cameron’s people watching me from the pavement.’He looked like he wanted to argue. He didn’t. ‘Call me,’ he said. ‘When you arrive.’I was halfway down the M4 when my phone rang.‘You need to come to Mousehole,’ Mum said, without preamble. ‘Today. Gran and I have something to tell you.’‘Mum, today’s not—’‘The sooner the better, Cinny. Please.’I could never say no to her. ‘Fine. I’m on my way.’The long drive would clear my head. I wondered for a moment what they wanted to tell me, but

Chapter 329 Unlikely Saviour

The impact didn’t come.Instead there was a sound – an almighty crack from somewhere behind and to the left of me, followed by the shriek of tyres on tarmac and a second impact that I felt rather than heard, the shudder of metal meeting metal at speed, and then my car was spinning, not off the road but on it, the fields wheeling past the windscreen in a smear of grey-green until I got my foot on the brake and brought it to a shuddering stop half on the verge.I opened my eyes – hadn’t even realised I’d shut them. My hands were still on the wheel.Outside, something was still moving – engines, voices, the sound of a door.I couldn’t quite make sense of it. My head felt like it was full of cotton wool and my left arm was burning somewhere between my elbow and my shoulder where it had connected with the door panel, and there was something warm on my temple that I was fairly sure was blood.I tried the door. It opened, which surprised me. I got one leg out and then the world tilted conside

Chapter 330 The Truth

The man standing in the kitchen doorway was tall, silver-haired, and the last person I’d expected to see.Apparently, Desmond had the same thought.He was on his feet in an instant. ‘Uncle Aaron. What are you doing here?’Aaron Lockwood looked at him, then at me, then back at Desmond. ‘I could ask you the same thing.’‘I asked first.’‘Desmond –’‘Gran,’ I said.Everyone looked at me.I was looking at Gran Alison, who was standing very still by the fireplace with her hands clasped in front of her, wearing the expression I knew meant she had something difficult to say and had decided the time for saying it had arrived.‘What’s going on?’ I asked.Gran said, ‘This is why I asked your mum to call you down here. We need to talk.’ She looked at Aaron Lockwood. ‘All of us.’We sat. Dad on the sofa beside Mum, whose hands he was holding in both of his. Desmond in the armchair he’d been in before, his elbows on his knees now, watching his uncle like a police officer watching a suspect.Aaron L

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