Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 45

The once bright blue sky that hung proudly above was no longer than same. If some one were to tell me that the now dark, almost black, sky was once an airy blue, | would have found it difficult to believe had | not been witness to it myself.

Not only had the sky conformed from one parallel to another but so did the temperature outside. The slight warmth that moved through the air had disappeared entirely once it had struck noon. Since then, it had become cold enough that the air felt cold before it turned in to a biting temperature.

It should not have come of as any much as a surprise to me as it had considering that | spent years. in Canada. | guess the last few months back in America kind of threw me off slightly from the unpredictability of Canadian weather.

| did not know of how long | had planned to be here because it was the most on the spot decision | have ever made but | knew it was the best possible decision | could make given the situation.

| needed to be away from Dante and Pheobe and what ever mess those two seemed highly determined to entangle themselves in. It also bought me some time to keep this paternity test from taking place. It was not some thing that | could run away from forever but | could try to until Dante would give up. He had to give up at some point seeing as he would be married in who knows how many months and then he would have a lot more to focus on than Hayley and I.

As for Hayley, she had been a tad bit happy to come back since she did miss her familiar surroundings especially since this was where she was born and brought up. No matter what, | doubted any place on earth would feel like home in the truest sense to her as much as she felt it here.

Asneeze dragged my attention away from the deteriorating weather out side the window. | turned just enough so | could see Hayley in the corner of the room scrunching her nose right before another sneeze caught her off guard.

“What's going on?” | asked lightly. Hayley shook her head as she sniffed. “I think it’s the dust.” She reasoned and | couldn't disagree. The place did get dusty in the time that we had been away but | was determined to take care of it.

“| know, sweety. | did call the cleaning agency to come in tomorrow and tidy up.” | informed her but she rolled herself over to me across the room.

“It's going to storm in no time.” Hayley pointed out as she, too, observed the weather. “I forgot how unpredictable the weather could be back here.” She shrugged before looking at me.

“| hope it isn’t too bad of a storm.” | said as | reached to move a few tendrils of hers behind her ear.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

“Are you happy to be back here?” | asked and saw her purse her I*ps as she pondered over it.

“| guess but | feel a like | need some time to adjust to the place again.” She explained and | knew just what she meant. 11-28 Wed, b Mar

“Plus the house that we have in America is so much cooler and bigger. | had more place there to move around and | loved the garden during the day.” She looked around the apartment as she made the comparison and | felt a tad bit guilty for taking her away from what she had grown used

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“It is a pretty nice house and I’m sure we'll go back in no time.” It was inevitable considering it would be impossible for me to work from here for too long.

There were only a certain number of meetings that could be held over the internet especially since there would be finance meetings that would be vital for me to attend in person. The growth of the business was still at the fore front of my focus. | was more determined now more than ever to win this over Dante after what he had done.

“Do you ever miss your friends, mama?” Hayley asked out of the blue causing me my brows to furrow together.

“That is such a random question but it depends. Some times if | don’t see them for a long time then | do miss them.” | explained lightly. “Why do you ask?”

She shrugged. “Because | was thinking about the last time you’ve seen Dante and it has been too long.” She sounded more disappointed than | could understand.

“He is a busy man so | hardly get to see him but that’s okay.” | tried to diffuse the subject of the man she addressed by his first name who was her father.

“But he said that he was also my friend and | miss him. | think he’s fun.” The heaviness in her voice was unmissable and | didn’t think that she had taken such a liking to him enough that she remembered him even after a while of not seeing him.

“He’s not too bad. | think Adam can be more fun than him though.” | tried to sway her but she shook her head adamantly.

“Adam is nice but Dante felt like he was a proper friend to me. It’s the first time that | felt like | had. a friend besides nanny Nancy.” In that moment | felt horrible.

As much as | did not want her to take so much of a liking to Dante, | also knew that making friends. for her was challenging some times and how could | take away the one friend she assumed she had aside from Nancy yet | still went on to say what | did.

“You've hardly gotten to know him properly.” | reasoned trying to douse out the fire and calm down any further interest she had with Dante.

“Not true. He’s had dinner with us and he took me to that chocolate factory tour. He wouldn’t do that for just any one. You said he’s a busy person but he made time to take me to taste all of that chocolate.” She explained right back at me passionately and firmly holding her stance about Dante.

“Alright, alright, Dante is your friend then.” | held my hands up playfully in surrender and she smiled in satisfaction.

“Can we get pizza for supper?” She batted her eyes at me to soften me up but she didn’t need to do that especially since | never or hardly ever refused her request for pizza.

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The next morning while Hayley had still been pretty much asleep, | finally took the chance to set up my laptop so | could be a part of the reviewing meeting that is scheduled for this morning. before | had left this meeting was supposed to be held in the boardroom but seeing that | was not there it just made most sense to host it as a digital meeting.

the meeting had only lasted about an hour and for the most part | had already known what was going on since | reviewed the paperwork prior to the meeting itself. the meeting had barely just concluded when my phone began to vibrate signaling that some one had been calling me. | quickly exited the meeting before reaching for my phone to see that there was an incoming call from Lucy.

| frownes since it really wasn’t like her to call me and most of our communication had been conducted over emails. nevertheless | picked up the call to see what she had wanted.

“it hasn’t been 24 hours since | have left yet you are already missing me. “I joked to play fully as | shut the screen of my laptop.

| heard Lucy take in a deep breath before she spoke. “aside from the fact that | do miss you it’s not the reason that I’m calling you for. “she said in a bit of a tense tone.

“is there something going on at the company? I’m sure that | have seen two whatever urgent matters needed to be taken care of before | left. “my shoulder squared preparing myself whatever horrible news about a drop on me.

“No, No. every thing is perfectly fine at the company, however Dante Crawford dropped by early this morning and he was not very pleased to discover that you had left the country. “I let out a slow breath knowing exactly what his disapproval was mainly about.

“last time | checked there was no dealings to be seen too between these companies. did he say why exactly he had stopped by? “| questioned curious to know if he would mention anything about the paternity test to Lucy.

“nope. “she said popping the P sound. “he entered then asked if you were in your office and once | had mentioned that you will not even in the country he was visibly furious. ‘she sounded confused herself with his reaction but | was not.

“don’t worry about him but | will send him an email to find out what the reason he is seeking me out for. “I lied just to close the matter before hanging up.

it came as no surprise neither had it been any sort of a secret that Dante would not be please to find out that | have taken Hayley and left especially since he warned me clearly about the repercussions that | would face if | evaded this paternity test. however as much as he had threatened me | doubted that he would ever stoop to that level. Heck, if they had been even a shadow of a doubt that he may exercise his legal right | would not even have considered being so risky.

| did not even know how long | planned to stay in Canada for but it really could not be any more than a few days before certain matches would require you my attention and | would have to return. coming here was just a means to get a break from everything else that had been going on.