Reunited...With Child by Katherine Garbera Read Free Book Online Page A

one other lover before him and it had been little more than a rushed coupling in a college dorm room. But Cam was a real man and he’d swept her away.
    â€œDid you tell Russell?”
    Becca felt horrified at the thought of her boss knowing she’d slept with one of his friends. She had kept that knowledge very close.
    â€œNo. Of course not. I didn’t tell anyone. I don’t think that Russell even knows I have a son. I told him I was leaving to start my own company. And he was my boss, not my confidant.”
    Each question was tearing at her confidence. She briefly wondered if she should have just kept quiet after all, then dismissed the thought.
    â€œI got really sick a month after I left Miami and at first I figured it was just the malaise of a broken heart. I didn’t realize I was pregnant until a few weeks after I got back home.”
    Cam ran his fingers through his hair. He was still sorting out the logistics of how things happened. Answering his questions brought back all those feelings she’d had when she’d learned she was pregnant.
    â€œI almost called you. I didn’t have any numbers for you but Russell’s secretary had your office number. Do you remember her? Lani?”
    â€œYes, I remember her,” Cam said.
    â€œThen you will probably also recall that you were dating her cousin about that time,” Becca said. “And I wasn’t about to call you up and give you the news that you didn’t want. At that point I wouldn’t have been able to handle another rejection. It had seemed to me you had moved on.”
    â€œI guess it would. I still deserved to know I had a son.”
    â€œI know. I’m so sorry that I didn’t tell you but I was in a pretty vulnerable state and you didn’t seem like a viable option for someone to lean on,” she said.
    She crossed her arms around her waist and took a deep breath. “To be fair, back then we weren’t anything but lovers. We didn’t know about each other’s lives or really even care. We just met up each night and had hot sex.”
    He looked over at her, his large blue eyes unreadable. He seemed so distant and so cold and she really didn’t know what he wanted from her. She had no idea what she should say to smooth over this moment.
    â€œThat is a fair assessment of who we were.”
    â€œYes, it is.”
    â€œWhy did you decide to tell me now?” he asked.
    She bit her lower lip and fought to find the right thing to say. “When I saw you last night, I realized I owe you the truth.”
    She was in an indefensible position. She knew what she’d done was wrong and there was no way to spin this. No way to turn it into anything other than the painful truth.
    â€œNow I’m not sure what I believe. But I’m going to take your word that Ty is my son because I can’t figure out why you’d make that up. Unless you thought you could get money from me?”
    â€œWhy would I need money from you?” she asked. Granted, she wasn’t a millionaire like Cam, but she owned her own home and her business was doing very well.
    â€œEveryone always needs more money,” he said.
    â€œI’m seeing a side of you I don’t particularly like,” she said.
    â€œI could say the same. What kind of woman waits until her son is almost two years old to tell the father about him?” he asked.
    â€œI just explained that to you,” she said.
    â€œI’m not buying it, Becca,” he said. “I’m not buying into any of your act anymore.”
    â€œStop talking to me like that,” she said. “You are angry and you have a right to be, but you are just saying mean things right now.”
    â€œYou’re damned right I am. And I have a lot more that I’m trying to hold back. Nothing about this morning has done anything but make me doubt every word you’ve ever said.”
    â€œThat’s fine with me, Cam. Why