Billionaire's Second Chance (Billionaires #16) - Jennifer Hartley Page 0,50
to figure out how the situation had unraveled so quickly and what I was going to do to fix it. But then, even though all I wanted to do was run after Clara and hold her in my arms and tell her that everything was going to be okay, I realized something that made it impossible for me to run after anyone.
I was alone…again.
I was alone like I had always been in my entire life. And now, even the two people that I was the closest to, both ran off without me. My best friend tried to beat me up. The woman that I cared about more than anything in the world and that I just found out was pregnant with my child had just run away from me. And both of those two people that I thought I could always count on had told me to leave them alone. How was this the way that my life continued to go?
I looked over to the bed and saw the stuffed dog. I reached down to pick him up, and then I stormed out of the house, got back into my car, and left.
I had no idea where Clara and Scott had run off to. Both of their cars were still here, so they were still on the farm. That was fine; now, it was my turn to be the one leaving. The entire drive back to my hotel, I shook my head so much that I started to get dizzy. I was so mad and so sad and so confused. I wiped the blood that was on my chin from the one-hit that Scott had managed to get in. Then I shook my head some more and shouted a few choice words out into the empty air inside the car. There was no one there but me to hear it, but it made me feel better to scream and curse.
Clara should have told me the minute that she found out she was pregnant. She shouldn’t have kept this hidden from me, and she shouldn’t have had to go through it alone. No wonder she was so stressed and upset. I’d never been anything other than supportive of her, so I just didn’t get why she still felt like she couldn’t come to me with this news. Accident or not, the fact remained that she was pregnant with my baby. It wasn’t just something that we could avoid talking about. Although I could certainly see why she would have wanted to keep it a secret from Scott. I knew he was fiercely overprotective, but his behavior was uncalled for and ridiculous.
He should never have come at me like he did, and he should never have spoken to Clara in that way either. How could he have tried to blame me for taking advantage of her? He knew how much I cared about her, even if he didn’t know that we had those kinds of feelings for each other. He still knew that I would never do anything to hurt her. I was so hurt and frustrated by all of it. And I felt like an outsider that wasn’t welcomed in, which hurt—a lot. But there was nothing that I could do about it, not yet anyway. Not until Clara was ready to talk to me and Scott had simmered down. They’d already had to go through so much together with the death of their parents, and this time I felt like I should be there, too.
When I got to my hotel room, I went inside and sat down and literally just stared at the wall. It felt wrong being here. I needed to be at the farm with Clara. I wondered how long she had known that she was pregnant. I tried to replay the last few days in my head and figure out the timeline of it all. I wondered which time that we had sex had resulted in this pregnancy. She needed to see a doctor, and we needed to make a plan. I was afraid of what she and Scott were doing right now.
As much as I loved him like a brother, I was afraid of what he might be telling her to do. If Clara had a baby, it would throw a wrench in everything for them, and I knew he didn’t want things to be even harder than they already were. I had to think of a way to make this all work out.