Pregnant With The Alpha CEO's Secret Heir

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this matter must be kept to myself, kept c

g, in front of the entire thirty-fi

umbers blurring into a meaningless gray haze. The next, my stoma

the ladies' r

my eyes streamed, my legs shook, and my knuckles ached white against the por

k the

ng. I did everything right. So thi

the mirror over the si

my chair, my hands had almo

e adjacent cubicle, her brow furrowed with genuine concern-but her eyes held the famil

ile, my lips

ce tight. "Maybe just some

tle. I needed to wash the acrid taste out of m

layfully. "Morning sick

le nearly slippe

hrough me like a

pped, louder than I intend

me back to that night, without ev

waist. I remember his weight. He was hot, like he had a fever, his temperature much

ing down on me, rendering me unable to move even in my unconscious state. I carefu

ext morning, my cheeks burning with

pill I swallowed right there on the sidewalk, washed down with

preca

impos

sure it was

ght." She shrugged and turned back to her monitor, though I c

e spreadsheet. The numbers swam. The nausea hadn't left-it

phone buzzed. It was Maria, one of the

she said, her voice rushed. "Lucas and I are swamped. I heard Mr. Montgomery is ou

d over me, so potent i

was

fill a high-priority task without

eady for the first time all morn

ile, and slip out. A ghost. He w

e filing cabinet. The weight of it in my hands felt

or bank, my steps feeling l

d my pale, drawn face. I smoothed down my blouse, tryi

tly, the doors sliding

here was different-cooler, stiller, smelling faintly of expensive leather and somet

doors of the CEO's office, my heart a frant

y hand outstretched,

ate elevator, set flush against the wall be

tgomery st

ed from his m

ng eyes in the

mb fingers, hitting the plush carpet with a soft thud. The

of avoidance I had built for th

nightmares for weeks, narrowed slightly.

was a low rumble, deep and commandi

estion. It was

al caught in the unblin

. "The... the encrypted report," I stammered, hold