All Chapters of The Billionaire Queen He Despised : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Eva POVI sat on the edge of the tub for a long time after the two lines appeared, my hands still holding the test strip like it might change its answer if I stared at it long enough. It did not change. I set it down on the counter and pressed both hands over my face, and for a while I did not think anything at all, my mind was too full to hold a single clear thought.Eventually I picked myself up off the floor and went to bed, though I did not sleep. I lay on my back staring at the ceiling, turning the same question over and over until it wore a groove into my thoughts. How was I supposed to tell him? Whether I told him now or later, this changed everything, or it changed nothing, and I could not decide which possibility frightened me more.If it changed everything, maybe there was still something worth saving between us, some reason for him to stop and look at me the way he used to before his grandfather's arrangement turned us into strangers sharing a house. If it changed nothing,

Eva POVRichard called me into the study that evening. I knew before I even sat down what he was going to say, but I still held my breath and waited for him to say it out loud."The results came back," he said, no greeting, no softness in his voice at all. "The child is mine."I let out a breath I did not know I had been holding. "You believe it now.""I do not have a choice. It is confirmed." He said it the way he might read a line from a contract, like the words had nothing to do with a person growing inside me at all."So what happens now?""I will support the child financially. Whatever it needs, it will have. That is not in question.""And us?"He looked at me like the question surprised him, like he could not understand why I would even ask it after everything. "There is no us, Eva. There was never going to be an us again after last night. This changes what I owe the child. It does not change anything between you and me.""I was not asking for that," I said, though some small pa