A Bundle of Joy 2: The Baby Proposal (BWWM Interracial Romance) by Roxy Wilson Read Free Book Online

life was a mess.
    She’d have to try even harder to get a job now. And worse than all that, she was stuck with a baby that she didn’t have the resources to take care of.
    What were her options? It seemed that what Warren had suggested was the only course of action left open ed to her. Selene picked up the phone and made an appointment with her doctor for the next week. She didn’t want to do it but what other choice did she have? She could barely survive on her own. How would she raise this baby?
    Selene didn’t have the legal counsel, resources, or money to sue Warren and Meg. And neither did she want to. She would have to do something on her own. And unfortunately, abortion was the only solution she could think of to solve her immediate problem.
     
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    Triston stood outside Selene’s apartment. He’d gone to her old place but found out that she’d moved. Luckily, her neighbor, Zac, knew her new address and pointed him in the right direction. Triston knew that he had to be crazy for doing this. What else could possess him to ring her bell again, knowing full well that she had another man in her life? How could she be alone? Which idiotic man would make her pregnant and then not want her? Selene was beautiful, beyond perfection.
    As the door opened, he changed his m ind. She was not merely beautiful, she was so alluring that he hoped he would be able to keep a respectable distance from her.
    He could already tell that she’d put on a little weight, but it looked good on her. And he could also tell that she’d been crying. Her eyes were tinged with pink and there were dark circles under her eyes. Was the bastard who’d made her pregnant responsible for making her cry? He wanted to tear the idiot from limb to limb.
    Triston controlled his anger , but with great effort. Instead, he settled for plastering a smile on his face.
    “ How are you?”
    “Triston , what are you doing here?”
    “Jus t came to check up on you.” He glanced down at the bouquet of white roses, which looked delicate in his large hand. He offered it to her. “And to replace the ones I had ruined.” He hoped she would smile at his feeble attempt at a joke. But already he saw that it fell flat.
    Selene shook her head. “I’m sorry. This isn’t a good time.” She began to close the door.
    An instinct born out of years of army training made him put his hand on the door before she could close it. “What’s wrong?”
    “Nothing’s wrong.”
    “Selene, I know you too well. Something’s up, and I’m not leaving until I know what it is.”
    Perhaps she sensed his determination, or maybe she reme mbered his dogged persistence, but for some reason, she stopped trying to slam the door on his face. Instead, she stepped aside to let him in. “Fine. Get in. I don’t want this to become gossip fodder for the neighbors.”
    Triston made his way inside. As soon as she closed the door, he whirled around to face her. “What’s going on? Is everything all right…with your pregnancy?”
    Her lips lifted in a wary smile. “Everything ’s fine. I just wish…” She shook her head as she trailed off.
    Okay, he was going about this all wrong; tactics of warfare had no place here with Selene. He needed to put her at ease, not stress her out. And doing that wasn’t going to give him the answers he needed anyway. Triston decided to change the subject.
    “I’m sorry about your parents.”
    Way to go Walker, you can’t even think of something to say that would cheer her up a bit.
    She sighed. “Yes, thank you. I got the flowers you had sent but…” She left the rest of the sentence unfinished.
    His mother had told him about the accident which claimed Selene’s parents’ lives. He’d tried to call, but she never picked up.
    Triston understood her feelings. What could she have said to him back then? Even now, Triston expected her to ask him to leave. But like so many times before, she managed to surprise him.
    “Cool.” Triston st epped