All Chapters of The Double Life of My Hot Secretary: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

240 Chapters

228: Baby Daddy

I stared at Doctor Bennett until she lowered the tablet.“Pregnant?”“Your blood contains human chorionic gonadotropin,” she said. “The level suggests this is very early. We will repeat the test in forty eight hours and arrange an ultrasound when there is something reliable to see.”Beside me, Adam had gone completely still.I looked down at my stomach. It appeared exactly as it had that morning beneath his shirt. I had kissed him, eaten toast and worried about dying without knowing another life had already begun inside me.“That can’t be right.”Doctor Bennett’s expression remained gentle. “Had your period been late?”I tried to remember the last normal one. Italy, London and the weeks without Adam had blurred every date together. “I thought stress changed it.”Adam finally moved. His hand closed around mine, firm enough to bring me back into the room.“Is she safe?” he asked. “The scan you performed, could it have harmed the pregnancy?”“We used non-ionising imaging. It is safe.” Do

229: Missing person report

I stared at the dark screen until Adam’s name disappeared.Three calls. Straight to voicemail every time.I pressed call again and lifted the phone to my ear, pacing between the kitchen and the front windows. The same recorded voice answered before the second ring.Where are you?Please call me.Adam, you’re scaring me.All three messages were delivered. None were read.I pulled one curtain aside and searched the empty street. Every pair of headlights made my heart jump, but each car continued past the house without slowing. By four, I imagined his car wrapped around a tree.I called again.Voicemail.The water he had poured for me still sat on the table beside the open packet of crackers. I forced one into my mouth because Doctor Bennett had told me not to let my stomach stay empty. It turned dry against my tongue. I spat it into a tissue and pressed both hands over my face.“You’re being ridiculous,” I whispered. “He said he’d be back.”I tried the intercom beside the front door. A

230: Thirty million dollars

“Adam?”The moment I heard him breathe, relief tore through me. A sob escaped.“Eve? What happened?”“Where have you been? I called you all night. I called your office, your driver, Dante and two hospitals. I thought you were dead. I thought you left me.”“Left you? What the hell are you talking about?”“You disappeared after finding out I was pregnant. What was I supposed to think?”“That I would cut out my own heart before I walked away from you.” He exhaled. “My phone was surrendered when I entered the research facility. Their security disabled the car tracker because the facility is confidential. I expected to be there for two hours, not all night. I should have told you where I was going. I’m sorry. Where are you?”I wiped my face with my sleeve. “Almost at my parents’ house.”“Perfect. I’ll meet you there. I have something important to show you.”“Adam, what did you do?”“Something I should have done sooner.”Dad opened the door.“What happened?”“I didn’t sleep.” I stepped past

231: I now pronounce you son in law

Adam POVEve stared at me so long my knee began to ache against the hardwood floor, but I barely noticed it. Her lips parted. Her eyes moved from the ring to my face, filling with fresh tears.For one terrifying second, I wondered if I had misread everything.Then she nodded.“Yes.” Her hand flew to her mouth as she laughed through a sob. “Yes, Adam. Of course I’ll marry you.”I had barely stood before she launched herself at me.Her arms locked around my neck, and I caught her beneath her thighs as her feet left the floor. She buried her face against me, laughing and crying while I held her so tightly I was probably crushing the air from her lungs.Relief hit me hard enough to make my hands shake.“You said yes,” I murmured against her hair.She pulled back and kissed me, her fingers sliding into my hair. I forgot her parents were watching until someone cleared his throat.I lowered her carefully, but she kept one arm around my neck while I removed the ring from its box.“Your hand,”

232: Waiting till marriage

Eve POVSix weeks after Adam proposed, I stood on a platform in a Milan bridal shop while Mabel pulled at the zipper of a dress that refused to close.“Stop breathing,” she said.“That feels like a bad condition for buying it.”She released the zipper and stepped back. “No. The dress is fighting you, and I don’t trust anything that fights the bride.”I held the bodice against my chest and looked at Dante. He sat beside three garment bags, scrolling through his phone.“Any thoughts?” I asked.“I was told my only jobs were carrying bags and keeping Adam away.”Mabel walked past him to collect her coffee. Dante caught her wrist, pulled her between his knees and kissed her temple before handing her the cup.Three weeks after Mabel finally took him back, Dante still touched her carefully. She had made him work for forgiveness after walking in on him kissing me, and he knew better than to waste his second chance.“Still on probation?” I asked.Mabel took a sip. “Very much.”The next dress w

233: Bend me over the desk

He pulled me into another kiss like he’d been starving for it all morning.His mouth was hot and impatient, tongue sliding against mine while his hands stayed locked under my thighs. I could feel how hard he already was through his trousers, pressed right up against the seam of my skirt. My laugh broke against his lips.“You called five times because you wanted to fuck me on your desk.”“I called five times because I missed you.” His voice was wrecked already. “The desk is a bonus.”He set me down just long enough to lock the office door. Then he was back between my knees, shoving my skirt up my thighs, palms dragging over bare skin. I yanked his shirt out of his waistband and got two buttons undone before he lost patience and ripped the rest. A button pinged off the desk and disappeared under a chair. “Adam-”“I know.” His forehead dropped to mine. His hand slid down, hesitated right over my stomach, thumb stroking once, careful as hell. “The baby.”I stared at him. Then I st

234: The House By The Sea

By the time I found my shoes, Adam had buttoned his shirt and looked too pleased with himself.I sat on his desk, fastening one heel while he watched me with a smile I could not survive.“Stop looking at me like that.”“Like what?”“Like you didn’t destroy our agreement on your office floor.”He crouched before me and fixed the strap. His fingers brushed my ankle before he kissed my knee.“I have something to show you.”I narrowed my eyes. “Should I be worried?”“Probably.” He stood and held out his hand. “Come with me.”A car waited downstairs. Adam refused to explain where we were going when Milan disappeared behind us. He placed my hand on his thigh and covered it with his.Two hours later, blue appeared between the trees.“Is that the sea?”Adam glanced at me instead of the view. “Yes.”Near Camogli, we passed faded shutters and balconies crowded with flowers. We turned through a stone arch onto a lane lined with lemon trees. A cream house with blue shutters and vines climbing one

235: Epilogue

Third Person POVThree weeks later, every bell around Lake Como rang for Eve Wood. From the villa window, she saw flower covered boats on the water and hundreds of guests beneath arches of white roses. It looked royal. Eve barely noticed.Hazel fastened the last pearl button on Eve’s ivory gown. Silk skimmed her body before opening into a full skirt, and the olive leaf veil covered the floor.Hazel kept her fingers on the button. “Mom?” Their eyes met in the mirror. Her cheeks were full again. No oxygen tube, no blood, no doctor waiting outside. The disease was healing.“I thought I would miss this,” Hazel whispered.Eve turned carefully and caught both her hands. “Don’t say that.”“I need to.” Hazel smiled through tears. “I thought I would never see this. Now I get to watch you marry the man who refused to lose us.”Eve wrapped her arms around her mother. Hazel held her tightly, one hand settling carefully over Eve’s stomach. “You’re crushing my grandchild.”“You started it.” Mabel d

236: Finale

Finale“Mom, I’m scared.”Hazel’s arms tightened around me. “Of what?”I looked at the car waiting beneath the lights.“Going with him. Waking up tomorrow as his wife.” I twisted her dress in my fists. “What if I don’t know how to be one?”Mom pulled back. “How to do what?”“Any of it. What if marriage changes him? What if it changes me? What if I disappoint him, or try so hard to make him happy that I disappear? What if I’m a terrible mother?” My hand covered my stomach. “What if I need you when I’m supposed to be grown?”Her face crumpled. She held my cheeks and pressed her forehead to mine.“You do not stop being my daughter because someone calls you Mrs Dalton.”“But I’m leaving.”“You’re going home with your husband. That isn’t the same as leaving me.”“What if forever feels different from loving him today?”“It will. Some days will be harder. Some will be ordinary.” Her thumbs wiped my tears. “Marriage is not knowing exactly what to do. It is telling him when you don’t. It is ch

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A Note From the Author Wow. What do I even say? Thank you so much for following this story and loving these characters with me. This journey has meant more to me than I could ever explain. It has been almost a year with Hazel, Alan, Eve and Adam, and I honestly do not know how to say goodbye to them. I am going to miss them with all my heart, and I hope a small part of you will miss them too. I am so grateful to every single person who read, commented, voted and waited for each update. This book would be nothing without you. You gave these characters a home outside my imagination, and I will never forget that. But we do not really have to say goodbye. You can find me on I*******m at @faithodulesi, and my new book, ACCIDENTAL SURROGATE FOR THE IMPOTENT BILLIONAIRE, will be right here! Please leave a five star review so more readers can find Hazel, Alan, Eve and Adam and fall in love with their story too. I love you all so much. Thank you for staying until the very last page. I rea

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