The Best Man's Baby: A BWWM Pregnancy Romance by Tasha Blue Read Free Book Online Page B

just let this be a wonderful and deeply sensual memory.
    They went their separate ways after that, and there was no awkwardness between them. Daniel even kissed her once more before she left the hotel room ahead of him. When she was gone, Daniel smiled to himself. Cliff had been right. His encounter with Carla had been unforgettable, but the timing was not right to try to build a relationship with someone new and unfamiliar.
    Carla arrived back at the bakery late on Monday afternoon, which made Lily ask a thousand questions about the wedding.
    "You hooked up, didn't you?" she gasped. Her voice was shocked. Her boss had never so much as been on a quiet date with a dull man, let alone had a steamy one-night stand with a stranger.
    The baker grinned and giggled, giving herself away, and Lily's eyes grew wide.
    "Spill it!" Lily demanded impatiently. She began to tense in anticipation for the news and grew more and more restless as Carla took her time in telling her what had happened.
    "Oh, come on!" Lily urged her. "Start with the basics. Who was he?"
    "The best man." Carla confessed.
    "Was he tall with nice hair and eyes?" Lily grinned and folded her hands together.
    "Very tall, stylish hair, and about the most amazing eyes I've ever seen."
    "So, what happened?" Lily could not contain herself.
    Carla shrugged self-consciously and giggled again, shy to be telling this story to her apprentice who was hanging onto her every word.
    "He was charming and sophisticated and I suppose I just let go of my inhibitions a little." Carla told her, and then corrected herself. "Maybe a lot."
    "He must have been some player to get you interested!" Lily exclaimed. "I've seen a hundred guys hit on you and you always turn them away. You always talk about men being trouble. What was different about him?"
    "Oh, I don't know." Carla gave a distant sigh.” I suppose it was his confidence. He spoke to me like he already knew what was going to happen that night and I thought he was so... daring that I couldn't help but get drawn in."
    "Daring?" Lily repeated excitedly. "So what happens now? Are you going to see him again?"
    "No." Carla said firmly, her eyes serious. "You're right. I think men are trouble and especially this one. He's a player and some big shot lawyer. It was nice to live in the fantasy for a night, but he would never go for a simple woman like me, and I wouldn't want to invite that kind of trouble into my life. I've got my life all worked out and he would only shake things up. I told him it was a one-time thing."
    "What's so wrong with shaking things up?" Lily urged her. "You're great, Carla, but you forget you're young sometimes. You should be taking risks and stuff now, before you are old and it's too late."
    Carla laughed. "I wish I had your attitude, Lily," she said. "It's just that I like my life the way it is. I just want to keep on building what I have and open a new bakery. I'm the only one that's going to make that happen."
    Lily sighed despondently. "I got excited that you were going to tell me you'd met someone to get you out of your shell a little more."
    "I was pretty out of my shell last night," Carla said meaningfully, making Lily forget that the gossip wasn't as juicy as she had hoped, and she laughed. The two carried on with their day and Carla tried to forget about the feel of Daniel's hands on her body and his breath on her neck, although the memories came back to her in sweet waves of sensation that made her smile without noticing, although Lily kept casting her knowing glances.
    Uptown, Daniel didn't talk about Carla again until Cliff had returned from his honeymoon and they met up for a drink at an expensive bar near Daniel's apartment. Cliff wasted no time in getting to the matter at hand.
    "Diane told me that you stayed the night at the hotel with her maid of honor. Well?" Cliff leaned forward and prompted Daniel to speak with an impatient hand gesture and then huffed when Daniel made him wait.
    His friend sat