The Science Of Love: A Billionaire BWWM Romance (11 page)

“
Of
course, did you have to ask?” she said weeping. “And one
other thing: I’m pregnant.”

David
slept soundly that night as did Jada. He kept his hand on her
stomach, wondering if he could feel the new life inside her. Jada
made sure her hand with the engagement ring on it was high enough in
the air that she could see it in the morning light. David told her he
wanted to see her in the first rays of dawn by his side with the ring
on her finger. He moved the bed when they went home so that it would
face the window and catch those first few beams. It was early in the
spring and they could sleep in as late as they wanted. When dawn
broke he made sure to be in the corner of the bed watching the
sunlight travel off her naked body and glitter on the diamond
engagement ring she wore.

He had
the waitress take a picture with the digital camera he’d
brought along for the event. It wasn’t the best looking
picture, but it would more than do for the company online newsletter
and the announcement he was going to send out. The waitress had
wanted to bring the other servers around to see the ring and of
course she agreed. It was a wonderful evening punctuated by the
knowledge that she was carrying his child. She almost hid her ring
finger under her coat when they went to the SUV.

Jada was
crying when they got into the vehicle. He opened the door for her
and, very carefully, helped his fiancé into the passenger
seat. When they got inside, he fastened the seat belt for her while
she looked at the ring for the twentieth time.

“
So
when did you find out?” he asked her, while starting up the
SUV. David had thought about buying one of the new electric cars, but
he had so many things to think about.

“
Today,”
she said, beneath the tears. “I did one of those home pregnancy
test kits last week and it came back positive, so I made and
appointment with the doctor. His office called today and said I was
three weeks pregnant.”

David
started the vehicle and moved into Pittsburgh traffic. He had more
than enough to plan right now. The wedding would have to be advanced,
no way in hell was he going to be marrying the woman he loved and
have her pregnancy showing. He wondered if it might be possible to do
a quick civil wedding and have the fancy one later on. Push it back
too far and they’d be hiring a sitter for the wedding. He
started doing calculations in his head while trying to keep the
traffic in mind. Things in his life were about to become very
interesting.

“
Are
you disappointed with me?” she said beneath the tears.

“
How
could I be?” he told her, taking her hand and kissing it. “It
took both of us to make the baby. We just have to advance the launch
date that’s all.”

She
tried to get angry with him for making light of her pregnancy, but
she couldn’t. Jada hadn’t wanted to go back on the pill,
trusting their observation of the calendar and using condoms whenever
they had to. But they had been making love constantly and sooner or
later one of those eggs was bound to get fertilized. It was the law
of averages, one that could not be beat.

“
Do
you know when our baby was conceived?” he asked her. “I
want to think the night I braided your hair. At least, it was the
night I felt very special with you.”

“
David,”
she told him, “It could have been any one of the times we were
together. Tell me, has there been a day we
haven’t
made love since I moved in with you?”

She had
him there. David had given up trying to do much work from his
condominium since Jada had come back into his life. All he had to do
was bring her home in those dancer leotards and he was trying to pull
them off her in seconds. One night they hadn’t made it past the
landing of the stairs when she bent over to pick up something. Jada
had stayed in that position for another half hour as David discovered
the stairs made a good substitute for a couch back.

But now
he was awake watching the morning light trace over her ebony body.
David gently pulled the sheet off her and watched her naked form as
she slept. He stared at her tummy and reflected on the life which was
growing inside her. What would they name the child? They’d
talked about that one before, one night after making love. They had
decided the child would be named after her family if a girl and his
if a boy. Or they might create a new name out of the parents’
name, which might make the name “Jaded” if a boy and
“Davada” if a girl. He had almost suggested “Dada”
as a girl’s name, but had wanted to make love at least one more
time that night. He tilted in the direction of a new name for the
personal name and something more conventional for the middle.

Jada
woke to him looking at her. She held up the ring in the air to look
at it again. Jada rose up on her knees and raised the ring to catch
the sunlight again so she could watch the rays reflect off the wall.
Jada leaned back to David and cuddled, telling him how much in love
she was.

“
I
wonder what she or he will look like,” she said to him.

“
It
doesn’t matter,” he told her. “Any baby from you
will be beautiful.”

“
We’re
going to have to make sure you’ll see the doctor every week,”
he told her. “My mother had all kinds of problems when she had
me.”

“
But
you came out alright,” she smiled.

“
Yes,
but I don’t want to take any chances,” he replied.
“You’re going to be my wife and I want to take care of
you.”

The
engagement pictures went out to everyone they could think about. Jada
had congratulations from her brothers and wanted to know when the
wedding would take place. Her older brother Randal wanted to make
sure it wasn’t a case of her having to get married and she
assured him David had popped the question without her prompting him.
David’s mother told her she wanted to meet her future
daughter-in-law and his dad told him Jada looked like a fine woman
from the picture. His sister wanted to know when the baby was coming
and he told her not to worry, they had that angle take care of.

There
was a big card attached to the door of his office when he went to
work, signed by all the staff. His marketing manager wanted to know
if they had met using the company matching service as it would be an
excellent selling point. David had to disappoint him by telling the
man no, he had known Jada years ago and had accidentally ran into
her. However, it was a good idea and they should offer a bonus for
any employee who met a prospective spouse using the company services.

Jada
nearly caused the day’s classes to be canceled at the dance
studio where she worked. She walked in normally, put her things in
her locker and kept her hand hidden when she went out to greet the
other instructors and students. When one the owner of the studio
asked her how her weekend had been, she produced the big diamond on
her hand.

“
Holy
Mother of God!” the studio said looking at the ring. “That
thing is gigantic!”

“
He
took me out to dinner last night and asked me if I wanted to marry
him,” Jada proudly announced.

“
I’m
guessing you agreed?” another dance instructor asked when she
walked up. “Whew, put that thing down, the reflection from it
is blinding me!”

Everyone
crowded around to see it. And then all the students wanted to see it.
And then all the mothers of the students who called all their friends
who wanted to see a picture of it on a social network. Within an hour
the photo of her diamond was flying across the internet. By the
evening it was featured on the a few news stories and Jada decided to
have it put into a safety deposit box. David went out and bought her
a smaller ring she could wear out daily.David began to worry as the
wedding date approached. He decided to have a small wedding with a
judge for the time. The larger one would have to wait. He wanted the
world to know he’d married her in advance of the baby and she
wasn’t “trapping” him or anything else so idiotic.
The tabloid press would run any kind of absurdity if they smelled a
scandal. He worried about their future. Plenty of computer empires
had crashed over the years and nothing guaranteed his would last.

At
night, he would lay awake watching her. She looked so beautiful and
content in the darkness, with the light from a night lamp supplying
the only illumination. He kept thinking about his child and how
important it was that they leave some kind of legacy to the world. He
started thinking about the thermonuclear power project that Jada’s
professor had talked with him about looking into. It became more and
more of an obsession with him. David was convinced the energy needs
of earth could not be met by the current methods. Geothermal, wind,
and solar power were too soft and unreliable. Nuclear fission
reactors were just too damned dangerous. And the current methods,
using petrochemical fuels, were just too polluting and inefficient.
Not to mention it might run short in the near lifetime. He felt he
had to do something and the pilot plant down in the Florida Keys was
worth looking into. David had one of his employees look into the
pilot plant which was under construction. The employee was a college
intern from a prestigious school who was doing market research for
David’s company. He pulled her off the project of finding new
dating sites to acquire and told her he wanted to know everything
possible about Dr. Ron Simmons, the renegade former government
scientist who felt he could have the pilot up and running in a few
years. He’d attracted some prestigious donors, but most of the
people in his field didn’t think he had a chance of getting the
plant operational unless he had access to a lot more money.

Jada was
forced to cut back her teaching at the dance academy. Her pregnancy
showed early, which made her proud, but caused some basic imbalances
in her body form. She was still able to work as an instructor. This
was helpful to her since Jada didn’t want to give it up; dance
had been an important part of her life from an early age. She felt
the movements had been helpful for her to get through school and an
important part of her success and dealing with the death of her
parents.

Her
school work was going to suffer, but she could still rearrange the
assignments, she needed to finish the work she had to do. There would
be some work in the high-energy lab which she would need to postpone,
but nothing too complicated. Her professors were supportive in what
she was accomplishing. David agreed to shuttle her to and from
college up to the time she might have to go into the hospital. Her
doctor didn’t see a problem pregnancy, so she was hopeful of
getting her research project accomplished.

David
and Jada held their wedding in a private ceremony two months into her
pregnancy. She was beginning to show a little bit, but she had no
trouble fitting into the white dress she had chosen. Her oldest
brother flew into Pittsburgh for the event and David’s parents
drove over from Ohio to attend the ceremony which was done by a
justice-of-the-peace at a small chapel above the city. They had
decided to postpone the big wedding for a later date and agreed it
would best for their child to be born before the wedding.

David’s
mother pulled him aside the day before the wedding after meeting Jada
and told him how wonderful she was and apologized for ever doubting
his ability to make a decision on the woman he would marry. David
told her he understood her apprehension, but Jada was a fine woman
from an excellent family and the woman he wanted to be the mother of
his children. When he told her that, she gave him her blessing and
kissed David, telling him she would be looking forward to any
grandchildren they would have. He didn’t tell her one was on
the way.

It was a
small wedding and one of Jada’s dance instructor friends stood
in for the mother of the bride. Her brother helped out with the role
which would normally go to her father. The entire wedding party
didn’t number more than thirty people. David put the matching
ring on her finger which he had made the same time as the engagement
ring. Pictures were taken which would fly across the internet that
evening again. Another announcement from the largest shareholders in
a major Internet company.

They
decided against a honeymoon for the present with Jada’s school
work filling up more and more of her time. Plus, they wanted to
concentrate on the future and the kind of home for their children.
David felt the best thing for them would be to live in a
free-standing house. He put his “swinging bachelor pad”
condominium up on the market and found a modest house in a good
neighborhood still accessible to the city with a decent amount of
land around it. He and Jada were very specific in the kind of
neighborhood they wanted for their family. She had been raised in the
rural part of Mississippi and missed the quietness of the land. She
also made sure it wasn’t a lily-white neighborhood and had a
decent amount of black people. Jada well knew the stigma of being a
minority and didn’t need a police officer to pull her over just
because she was driving in the wrong development.

Still,
David worried about the future. He worried about the kind of country
his children would find themselves in every time there was another
racial incident flaming across the news. What place would his
children have, who would be considered “mixed”. Jada and
he talked about it over many nights, wondering what and how to raise
their family. She didn’t want a single child and confessed to
David after attending a birthing class that her ideal family size was
four children. David was so deeply in love with her he would have
agreed to twelve.