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

“
Today
is just my lucky day,”
she
thought as she heard one of her favorite songs playing.
“First
my boss offers me overpriced food and now…”
her
trail of thought got lost in the moment as she let Fun’s Some
Nights reel her in.

“
This is
it boys, this is war…what are waiting for…why don’t
you break the rules already…I was *something, something* the
hype…Save that for the black and white…” she was
feeling on top of the world. The short ten minute ride to Galileo was
actually shorter than she hoped for with the radio playing all the
hit songs she liked. She wasn’t sure she wanted to hand her
keys to the valet.

Counting stars was playing in her
head as she walked into the restaurant. She had been feeling a little
heavier in the past few weeks and finding what to wear to work was
getting harder every single day. She looked around the restaurant and
spotted Dana waving at her from one corner of the room. She smiled
and walked towards Dana, a tired smile on her face.

“
Long
day?” Dana asked when Julie got to the table.

“
Tell me
about it,” Julie said as she took a seat. She put her bag on
the seat next to her and sighed. “You know, I was actually
about to call you and tell you I was about to take the rest of the
day off.”

“
Really?”
Dana asked as a waiter brought them their menus.

“
Yes but
someone decided to treat me to Teriyaki chicken,” Julie said as
she put her menu down on the table.

“
Yeah, I
took the liberty of ordering you a ginger ale. I know that’s
the only drink you like nowadays,” she said.

Julie looked at her and smiled
before she took a long sip of her cold ginger ale.

“
You
know me too damn well,” Julie said in a low voice before she
took another sip.

“
So, are
you okay? Because you look exhausted,” Dana said.

“
Actually,
I am and I don’t even understand why. Like at the open house, I
actually had to take a nap while the clients looked around,”
she said.

Dana stifled a laugh.

“
So, who
was showing the house?” she asked.

“
Andy.
That guy takes personal assistant to a whole new level,” she
smiled. Dana smiled and nodded. “I am just sorry he is going to
have to leave when he gets his realtors license.”

“
Well,
I must admit, you sure know how to pick ‘em,” Dana said
as she handed their menus to the waiter. “Teriyaki chicken with
a side of fried rice and a beef broccoli stir fry for me,” she
took a moment and looked at Julie. “And some rice for me too,”
she added before she handed the menus to the waiter.

“
So,
what’s going on with you? Why do you need to vent about your
husband?” Julie asked as she leaned back in the booth seat.

Dana
rolled her eyes. “Actually, it is more about me than him.”

Julie
raised an eyebrow. “I have no idea what you are on about,”

Dana
took a long deep breath.

“
So,
you know that he has been taking those long ass trips overseas,
right?” she started. Julie nodded. “Well, those trips are
becoming a little too much if you ask me,” she said as the
waiter brought their orders.

“
I
don’t hear you complaining about the fat bank account,”
Julie said as she looked at Dana.

“
Okay
the money is great but other parts of me are complaining,” Dana
said. Julie smiled as she took her first bite. “Okay, this is
the deal. He is always away and it is taking a toll on our marriage.
Sex life,” she added quickly.

“
How
long has it been for you anyway? You sound like it has been forever,”
Julie said as she looked at her. She picked up her fork and took a
big bite. “Oh my God…that is so good,” she said a
little louder than she intended. She looked up at Dana and smiled
guiltily. “Sorry, this is all about you. You were telling me
how long it has been,” she said as she looked at Dana.

“
Four
months,” Dana said without up. Julie pretended to choke on her
food as she looked at Dana.

“
I’m
sorry. It sounded like you said four months.”

“
I
did say four months,” Dana said again.

“
It
might be the damn pregnancy hormones but I could have sworn he was
around two weeks ago,” she said. Dana forked a piece of
broccoli and then a steak before she put it into her mouth. “Please
tell me this bump is not also making my calendar obsolete,”
Julie said as she looked at her boss.

“
Well,
you are right. He was around two weeks ago. Matter of fact, he’s
been around a lot lately,” she said.

Julie
took another bite and looked up at her.

“
Then
what is so hard about jumping his bones every time he comes into the
house?” she asked. Dana shook her head. “And your kids
are old enough to have play dates so you can forget using them as a
scape goat,” Julie said as she took another bite.

“
Well,
I have tried everything. I’ve had the kids over at my sister’s
and my mom’s. There was a time I even shipped them off to my
mother’s for an entire weekend and I still haven’t got
some in all that time. I think my husband is having an affair,”
she added in a low voice.

Julie
shook her head and took a long sip of her ginger ale.

“
Or
maybe you are both too busy to pay any attention to your marriage,”
Julie said.

Dana
raised an eyebrow over the other.

“
Last
time he was here I wore the black lace and mesh Victoria’s
Secret lingerie with those extra sexy Manolo shoes…I can
hardly stand in them let alone walk,” she said. Julie knew
exactly which pair of shoes she was referring to. She had wanted them
ever since the day she first saw them. She looked at Dana and gave
her a sad smile. The lace and mesh lingerie was the one thing she was
sure no man would be able to resist especially the thigh suspenders
that gave a man that hot stripper mindset.

“
And
how did he react when he saw you?” Julie asked. Dana frowned
and shook her head.

“
He
didn’t even look at me and honestly, I feel silly going above
and beyond the call of duty when it comes to maintaining this body,”
she said. “I mean, I have something every single day, yoga
twice a week, kickboxing on the weekends and Pilates every other day.
That is a bit too much for a man who doesn’t even brush his
shoulder against me. Even by mistake.”

Julie
could feel another cramp coming on. She looked at Dana trying hard
not to show the pain in her face.

“
What
am I supposed to do?” Dana asked as she looked at Julie whose
pain was now subsiding. Julie straightened herself up and took a long
sip of her cold ginger ale. She looked up and sighed. She had no idea
what she was supposed to say to Dana. This could very well be a case
of gross miscommunication.

“
How
about talking to him?” Julie asked.

Dana
shook her head.

“
What
good will that do? The longest he has talked to me in the last few
months was the day he asked me if I knew where his cellphone charger
was,” she said.

“
Apart
from that, have you noticed anything strange in his behavior lately?”
she asked.

“
Kind
of. Lately, he has been a little too careful with where he has been
leaving his phone…sometimes he even takes his phone to the
bathroom. That, to me is a bit weird,” Dana said. Julie nodded.
It
was
weird.
“But I have been trying to be the bigger person for a long time
now. It is kind of taking a toll on me and I hate it,” she
said.

Julie
put her fork down and looked at her boss. She hated to be the bearer
of bad news but in this case, it seemed like there was no way to
sugar coat what she was about to say.

“
Listen.
You know that most people say that you should always trust your gut
feeling and honestly, it sounds like you are in denial of what is
really happening here.”

“
Which
is?” Dana asked.

Julie
looked at her and shook her head.

“
Which
is? You are really asking that?” she asked.

Dana
nodded. “You are not exactly being open with what is happening
here.”

“
I
think that there is something going on here. Maybe there is so much
more than just the secret phone calls going on but as a person who is
trying to be impartial here, I think that he owes you an
explanation,” Julie said. She looked at Dana and reached for
her hand. “I think there is so much more to the story but I
really think that you should try and pry the information out of him.”
Dana looked at Julie and frowned, in the same way she usually did
when she had something to say. Julie raised an eyebrow. “What
is it now?” Julie asked.

“
I
think it has been too damn long that I might have cheated a little,”
Dana said.

Julie’s
eyes grew wide.

“
A
little? Cheating is like being pregnant. You either are or you’re
not. So which one is it? Did you cheat or didn’t you?”
she asked. Dana took a small bite of her beef, carefully avoiding eye
contact. “Well?” Julie pressed.

“
Remember
when I told you that my cousin was going to be in town for a few
days?” Julie nodded. “Well, we went out clubbing the
other night and I might have had an orgasm when I danced with a
random guy on the dance floor,” Dana said. Julie’s eyes
were now wider than ever. “He also might have been a college
guy,” Dana added in a soft voice. Julie looked at her boss in
surprise wondering whether she was proud or embarrassed.

“
Just
how deep was this dance?” she asked.

“
Well,
let’s just say that his business was on mine and I didn’t
resist when he cupped a feel of my ass,” Dana said. She looked
at Julie and shrugged. “And the fact that I had an orgasm while
dancing says a lot about my sex life,” Dana said.

“
Okay, I
don’t want to be the one to legitimize infidelity but first
make sure you sort out your marriage issues first before you even
decide on bedding random college guys you meet in a club,” she
said as she looked at her boss.

Dana shrugged and took another
bite of her food.

“
That
depends on whether he will even give me the time of day,” Dana
said but Julie didn’t hear her. She was having another tidal
wave that was her cramps. She knew that cramps were a normal
occurrence in a pregnancy but at this point, she was questioning all
the information she had read from mybabybump.com.

“
Just
don’t do something stu…darn it!” Julie suddenly
said as she shut her eyes tightly.

Dana looked at her and raised an
eyebrow over the other.

“
Okay
it’s not that bad,” Dana said as she took another bite of
her food.

Julie looked at her and tried
forcing a smile as she took a long sip of her ginger ale. She was
fine for the next few minutes but it was not long before she felt
another wave ripping through her tummy. She was trying as hard as she
could not to show Dana that she was feeling anything but Dana had
already noticed a few minutes earlier. When Julie took a bite, she
suddenly cringed when she felt a pain shoot through her. Dana looked
at her and raised an eyebrow in concern.

“
You
okay? Because you look like you just bit through a salty patch in a
blueberry muffin,” she said.

Julie
rubbed her tummy and took a long deep breath.

“
Nothing,
just a cramp,” she said before taking one last sip of her
ginger ale. She was just about to order another one when she felt yet
another cramp. This was so much more intense than the last one. When
the pain wave finally passed, her cheeks were flushed.

Dana
looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

“
Aren’t
you supposed to give birth next month?” she asked. Julie
nodded. “Juelz, I don’t want to alarm you or anything but
I think we have to get you to the hospital,” Dana said as she
threw a few bills on the table.

Julie
put a hand up and shook her head.

“
Oh
come on, I am still a few weeks shy of popping this big ol’
bump,” she said trying hard to smile.

“
Yeah
but still…you are not supposed to be in pain,” Dana said
as she stood up. She grabbed her purse and Julie’s purse and
helped her up. “Come on, we have to go,” she said as
Julie got on her feet. She turned around and looked at Dana.