Billionaire Baby Bump: Pregnancy Romance (A Billionaire BWWM Romance HAH Book 9) (5 page)

“
Nurse?
What nurse?” Meg asked as she looked up at Julie who was now
ranting. Meg didn’t really hear both sides of the conversation
but she heard enough to make out the fact that Julie was soon going
to have a personal nurse staying over with her. And by the looks of
things, she didn’t like the idea. “Sweetie…”
Meg said again before she held Julie’s hand.

“
Steven,
this is not okay…I will not have this!” Julie said
before she hang up. She threw her phone on the couch before she sat
down.

“
Stress
levels need to be down, remember? Why don’t you just calm
down,” Meg said as she rubbed Julie’s hand gently.

“
I
am trying to but I just can’t knowing that there is going to be
someone in my house watching me like a hawk for…God knows how
long,” she said as she ran her fingers through her hair. Meg
smiled and shook her head. “What? You are acting as if all this
is amusing somehow,” Julie said as she looked at her.

“
Well,
it is if you are standing where I am,” Meg said with a smile.
Julie looked at her and rolled her eyes before she sat down. “Come
on, it is not as bad as you make it seem. You will have someone
waiting on you hand and foot. That sounds heavenly to me,” she
said. Julie looked at Meg and shook her head.

“
You
don’t understand. Steven getting a nurse here means that I
might not get back to work until I give birth. I don’t think he
is only hiring her…or him for a few months,” she said.

“
What
makes you think that?” Meg asked as she looked into Julie’s
eyes.

“
Well,
Steven and I have always had an insatiable appetite for each other.
But now he won’t even touch me. Do you really think that he is
going to leave anything to chance?” she asked. Meg raised an
eyebrow and then shrugged.

“
You
know what, just chill out and talk to him, have some alone time and
then get laid for God’s sake because you are driving me crazy,”
she said. Julie shook her head and looked at her questioningly. “Yes,
honey. You are driving me crazy. I mean, Steven cares about you and
he went from not being able to have kids to a situation where he
literally came home to being a potential father. You have to give him
a break.”

Julie
sighed. Meg was right. She was being irrational.

“
But
we will never be able to have any time alone
ever
again,”
Julie said.

“
And
do you think when the baby comes things are going to get any better?”
Meg asked. “This is your training manual. And I think it just
began,” she added as she heard the doorbell. Julie sighed as
she watched Consuela walk to the front door.

“
Oh
dear Lord,”
she
thought to herself as she looked at two men carrying in boxes of what
she made out to be medicines. “Do I even need that much?”
she asked in a low voice. She looked at Meg and shook her head. “I
don’t think I can do this.”

“
I
wish someone had done this for me when I was pregnant,” she
smiled. “Remember, this is about more than just you,” she
added as she stood up.

“
Where
are you going?” Julie asked.

“
I
think your husband just got home. I need to make myself scarce for a
few hours if not the whole day,” Meg answered before she gave
Julie a quick hug.

“
Leaving
already?” Steven asked as he walked into the living room. There
was a tall dark haired woman with him.

“
If
I stay any longer, I will be committing gross injustice to my
apartment. Besides, my son is around this weekend so I have to go
shopping. That boy eats like there is no tomorrow,” Meg said.
Steven smiled.

“
Growing
pains,” he said. Meg shrugged. “This is Chloe. She will
be staying with us for a while. Chloe, this is Meg. Part of the
family.”

“
Nice
to meet you but I really have got to run,” Meg said with a
smile as she quickly made her way to the front door.

Julie
forced a smile as the two men walked towards the exit. There was a
short hushed conversation between Steven and Chloe as the two men
walked past them. Julie stood up and walked to where Steven and Chloe
were.

“
Chloe
this is my wife, Julie,” Steven said smiling. Julie looked at
Chloe and forced out a smile once more.

“
Nice
to meet you. Can I get you anything? Water, coffee, tea?” she
asked as she looked at Chloe.

“
No,
thanks. I just want to get settled in first,” she said.

“
Consuela
has your room all set up. I’ll go get her,” Steven said
with a smile before he walked off. Julie looked at her new nurse and
shook her head.

“
Would
you like to sit down while you wait?” she asked as she led
Chloe to the living room. “I’m sorry…I didn’t
get a chance to straighten the place up. I didn’t know you…”
she took a long deep breath as she sat down. Chloe looked at her and
smiled.

“
It’s
fine. There is no reason to go out of your way at my expense,”
she said as she sat down. Julie looked at her and wondered what she
was supposed to say. She wanted to yell out ‘I don’t need
a nurse’ or something along those lines but she found herself
tongue tied. “Listen, I looked at your medical file and
honestly I am in awe. And I know that you might have your
reservations but I can promise you, I am not here to tell you how to
live your life. I’m just here to make sure that your baby gets
a fighting chance and that he or she gets to live,” she said.
Julie smiled as her gaze fell to the floor.

“
You
know what, I’m really happy to hear that,” she said as
Steven came back into the room with Consuela. She turned around and
looked at Steven.

“
Chloe,
this is Consuela. She’ll show you to your room,” he said.
Chloe looked at Julie and smiled before she walked away with
Consuela. Steven took a long deep breath and walked to the couch
before he took a seat next to her. He already knew that she was
prepared to lash out at him. He had even decided on what answers he
would give first. There was no way she was going to just let him have
it without hearing his part out. She looked at him and opened her
mouth to speak but he was faster. “First, you have to hear me
out,” he said quickly. She looked at him and crossed her arms
on her chest.

“
Okay.
Go on,” she said as she looked at him.

“
Baby,
when the doctor told us that the chances of us ever being parents
were slim, I admit that I was sad but I felt even worse when I saw
how distraught you were. It was like having kids was your whole life
and thinking that you couldn’t have any was literally slicing
you up inside,” he said. She looked at him and shook her head.
“And then that day I came home and you were acting all odd. I
was stupid. I should have seen it…I mean, you always take wine
with your dinner but that day you…” he paused and smiled
before shaking his head. She looked at him and wondered what he was
trying to say. “That day, you made me the happiest man in the
world and I was so worried that any little thing I did would put you
and the baby in danger.” Julie’s heart softened. She had
never seen this side of Steven. The soft side of him. “I will
do anything and everything to make sure that baby comes into this
world. And if that means getting you round the clock medical care,
then that is exactly what I will do,” he finally said. She
looked at him and smiled.

“
That’s
fine,” she said.

Steven
gave her a questioning look. “What?”

“
That
was not what I wanted to talk about,” she said looking at him.
“I wanted to talk about us. You and me,” she said.

Steven
was even more surprised. “What about us?”

“
Baby,
I miss you…I miss us. I miss being intimate with you,”
she said.

He
looked at her and shook his head.

“
Baby,
I can’t. I might hurt you.”

She
shook her head and rolled her eyes at him. “That’s all
bullshit and you know it.”

Steven
looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

“
What?”
You know that you are the most important thing in my life, right?”
he said as he looked at her. She took a long deep breath and shook
her head. She was not really feeling like the most important…anything
at that point. It was like her baby was now the only thing Steven
thought about and it was not wrong. It’s just that she needed
to know that having a family would not affect them as a couple.

“
Baby,
you treat me like a pariah,” she said.

He looked
at her and raised an eyebrow.

“
A
pariah? Isn’t that word a little too big?” he asked.

“
No,
that is exactly what I feel like…I dress up, get my hair done,
put on sexy lingerie but you never even look at me like you want me
anymore.”

“
Why
would you even think of that?” he asked as he looked at her.

“
Because
Steven, we haven’t had sex in God knows how long and even when
I initiate it, you look like watching a rugby game is more
important.” Steven opened his mouth to talk but she put her
hand up. “You don’t even like rugby,” she said
matter of factly. She looked at him and brushed off a tear. “So,
what? I’m supposed to wait for nine freaking months before I
suck you?”

He looked
at her and shook his head.

“
Baby,
what if you have a miscarriage?”

“
We
are making love, Steven. Slow, sweet, passionate love. You are not
screwing me into the bed or anything,” she said as she looked
at him.

“
There
is no way you can guarantee that I won’t go hard on you. You
know I can’t help myself, it simply just happens…like a
weird force takes over or something,” he said. He shook his
head and his gaze fell. “I just don’t want to hurt you,
Julie,” he added in a small voice.

“
Hurt
me? Why would you hurt me?”

“
I
know that losing this baby would destroy you. I don’t want to
see that happen,” he said as he held her hands in his. She
looked into his eyes and nodded. She then stood up and pulled him to
his feet before she guided him to the bedroom. “Baby,
please…what are you doing?” Steven asked as she pulled
him to the master bedroom.

“
Do
something for me, Steven,” she said when they got to the
bedroom. “Just follow my lead,” she said in a low voice
as she shut the door behind them. She held his face in her hands as
she looked into his eyes. She took a step forward and brushed her
lips against his slowly, making him exhale deeply. She pulled away
from him and slowly began undoing the buttons on his shirt.

“
Juelz…”
he said again. He wanted to stop her but somehow, he let her
continue. She looked up at him when she undid the last button and
slowly pushed it off his shoulders. Her eyes never left his as she
ran her hands across his chest. Feeling his skin under her fingers
was a simple thing but it felt heavenly. She leaned in and kissed him
again. She deepened the kiss as she sought out his tongue. She let
her hands slip down to his waist and then to his belt. “Julie…what
are you…” he said when he felt her unbuckle his belt.

“
Follow
my lead, baby. Just follow my lead,” she said as she pushed his
pants off. She looked at him and gently caressed the bulge in his
pants. Steven moaned softly and closed his eyes as she pushed off his
boxer shorts revealing his big erect cock. She pushed him down on the
bed and knelt in between his legs as she took his cock in her hand.
She stroked him slowly as she felt him getting harder in her hand.
His eyes were closed as he felt the warmth of her hand engulfing his
manhood. She slowly lowered her head and took him into her mouth.
Steven gasped and moaned when he felt her hot mouth all around his
cock. The way she was bobbing her head on his cock was almost too
much for him. He was trying as hard as he could not to thrust into
her mouth. She took his cock deep in her throat and then pulled her
head away from him. She did this over and over until she felt her
mouth getting full. He was cumming in her mouth. She sucked him as
deep and as hard as she could, draining him of everything. She
released him and dabbed the sides of her mouth before she got off the
bed.