The Billionaire's Contract Baby: An Age gap Enemies to Lovers Romance by Shayla Frost

Author:Shayla Frost [Frost, Shayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

LORENZO

She closed the door behind her. Her posture showed her nervousness. Her hands were wrapped around her chest but not in defiance. It made her look small and frail. "Lorenzo, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen."

"Crystal, I'd need more than that. How do you have a child that looks like me, but I never got to know him? You've been with me this long and never thought to tell me about him. That was cruel!" My voice was low to not disturb the peace of the house.

I let her walk past me to the bed. She sat quietly, looking at her shaking hands. “Alfred is your son. I gave birth to him three years ago. Believe me when I said it was a miracle. Three months after the surrogacy procedure failed, I discovered I had missed my periods and noticed changes in my body that scared me. At the hospital, I was informed that I was pregnant. I thought that was impossible, then I recalled the failed procedure. Immediately I decided to tell you, but when I went to your house, I was informed that you were traveling and wouldn't be back for months.

"Lorenzo, I didn't deliberately hide the truth from you. I couldn't tell anybody other than you about it and to be honest, there was no other way to contact you. I left and decided to take care of the pregnancy. I could not bring myself to abort it. Months later…" A small smile cracked the mask of her sadness. “I gave birth to Alfred. I was so happy. I wanted to come over to your place to tell you, but I… hesitated, seeing this child and realizing that he was here because of a procedure, and he wasn't mine. I knew you'd take him away from me, and I'd have no claim to him as his mother. I decided to keep him a secret and raise him away from public scrutiny. In fact, I never expected to come across you again. After graduating from college, I planned to leave Northern California, but I just couldn't. Maybe I still wanted my son to stay close to his father."

The way Crystal spoke showed how much she loved Alfred. In a way, my anger was reduced a bit, but her excuses did not clear all my misgivings. “After we met, why did you say nothing? I opened up to you but what did you do? You were evasive and hid this from me." I huffed and went to stand in front of her. She stretched her hand to touch me, and I moved away. I couldn't bring myself to accept her touch.

"I was carried away. I was afraid you'd hate me when you discovered that I had hidden him from you, and that's what is happening right now. Every chance I got to come clean, I held back. The fear and uncertainty chilled me to the bone. If you don't believe anything I've said, believe this. I wanted to tell you about him after our journey.

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