Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 75599 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75599 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 302(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
My cock throbbed in my pants, and I groaned.
You know what? Naked in or on anything, and in any room, would work just fine for me.
I grinned, packing up my stuff and grabbing my jacket before I headed out of my office. I was fucking grinning this big dopey-ass smile, but I didn’t care. Somehow, when I least expected it, I’d found the girl of my damn dreams. And I was never going to let her slip away from me.
I was headed to the elevators, when her door opened, and she stepped right out in front of me.
Naomi.
I growled, my mood souring as she sneered at me.
“What is it now, Naomi?” I spat.
She smiled, clicking her tongue as she shook her head.
“Oh Aiden, always with the temper.”
“I’m late for something, Naomi, so whatever it is—”
“Oh, are you late to meet your little slut?”
My temper flared to red rage, and I snarled as I took a menacing step towards her.
“Excuse me?!”
“You know who I’m talking about!” she snapped. “That girl you spent the whole damn afternoon with!”
“She’s a patient—”
“Spare me, Aiden! Or are you going to try and tell me that you take all your patients into your private office and that apartment you keep back there for hours?”
I froze, my jaw clenched tight and my eyes narrowing at her.
“I’m leaving.” I strode past her, my blood roaring in my ears. “Goodnight. Nao—”
“If it’s her you’re off to see, I wouldn’t worry about it.”
I froze, muscles tensing.
“What?”
“I mean, if you made plans with her, I’d go ahead and assume she’s canceled them.”
I snarled, turning to face her, rage on my face. “The fuck are you talking about, Naomi?”
“I mean,” she sighed dramatically. “I know I’d cancel if the man I thought cared about me was really just a manwhore who’d knocked up another patient of his.”
The floor fell out from under me, and my heart stopped.
“No,” I said quietly, shaking my head.
Naomi smiled evilly. “Yes, actually. Aiden, how could I not tell her? I mean she had every right to know that the wildly inappropriate doctor who we’re going to be getting rid of soon anyways had already gotten some other poor girl pregnant.”
“You bitch!” I roared. “You had no right to—”
“I should fire you right now!” she threw back, her face red as she stepped back from me. “You can’t speak to me like that!”
“The board is in charge of my position here, Naomi,” I snarled.
“So it’s them that’ll be firing you. Probably by the end of today, actually.”
I started to open my mouth, but she stopped me.
“Oh, Aiden, the lawyers say this is a done deal. The child is yours, the girl is pressing charges, and—”
“I never touched her!”
“You did so, you pig!” she hissed. “We have Deliah’s statement and irrefutable DNA testing to prove it!”
“That’s impossible,” I hissed.
“Tell it to the board,” Naomi shot back. “You’re finished here, Owenson.”
Somehow, in a daze, I stumbled down to the parking garage. It felt like my entire world was crashing around me, but there was only one thing I cared about. Forget the job, forget the career. It didn’t matter the work I’d put into building it, not when there was something bigger for me to care about.
Natalie.
Fuck the rest of it. All that mattered was finding her, and making her see the truth. I lurched out of the elevator and stumbled for my car, my mind whirling, my heart sinking in my chest, and my vision blurring. All that mattered was Natalie. All that mattered—
“Aiden.”
My head jerked up, and my jaw dropped as my eyes locked onto her — onto my Natalie.
“Natalie—”
And suddenly she was in my arms. Suddenly, she’d thrown herself into me, wrapping her arms tight around me. I groaned, hugging her tight and burying my face in her hair.
“I have to tell you something,” I said quietly. “There’s a lot to explain, but—”
“I know you didn’t,” she said quietly, looking up into my eyes. “Aiden, I love you, and I know you didn’t.”
I scooped her into me, kissing her with everything I had as my heart melted for her.
“I love you too, angel,” I groaned into her lips. “I’m so sorry you had to find out from her like that.”
“She’s a real bitch,” Natalie hissed.
My jaw clenched as I nodded.
“Look, a lot of bad shit is about to happen, but—”
I stopped, seeing Natalie’s face break into a wide, toothy grin.
“Oh, a lot of bad shit is about to happen,” she said, grinning as her eyes sparkled. “Just not to you.”
My brow raised, and I started to open my mouth, when she slowly reached into her bag and pulled out her phone.
“You need to hear this.”
I listened, my rage boiling up inside of me as I shook my head. When it was done, Natalie slowly turned it off and slipped the phone back into her bag.