Taste of Love - By Stephanie Nicole Page 0,17

money on the table and led her out of the restaurant.

Chapter Five

The next two weeks were tough on Cameron. Madison's pregnancy was always in the back of his mind, and he wondered if it truly was his. From everything that his mother said about her the night they had gone to The TigerLily, she appeared to be a very stand-up woman. Would she really lie about something like a pregnancy?

Cameron shook his head. Of course she would. He had learned through his career that people weren't always as honorable as they pretended to be.

But still, something about this woman kept him thinking. Sure, it was possible that he was the father. He didn't remember using a condom that night, but then again, he was so out of it that he could have screwed a hole in the wall and not known the difference. Besides, he'd had sex without a condom before, and the woman never got pregnant. Not that it happened very often, but there were a few times that he was too caught up in the moment to play safe.

He laughed as he thought about the possibility. Him, a father? That was a scary thought. He didn't have the best example of a father growing up. His own father was too career-driven to be around much, and when he was, it seemed like Cameron was more of an inconvenience than a son. In fact, he had come to think that his father saw him as a status symbol, as something that he was supposed to do - have an heir to take over the family name.

What if Cameron did have a kid? He wasn't anywhere near the stage of his life where he was ready to settle down. There was still so much to see, so much to do, and so much to conquer. He wouldn't be home very often, and it wasn't fair for a child to have a part-time father. He might not know much about parenting and kids, but he damn sure knew all there was to know about being raised by a part-time father.

So his child would be left to be raised only by its mother, and if Madison was anything like what his mother told him, she too was very career-driven. If she wasn't home very often, where would that leave the child? To be raised by a stranger, a nanny to teach him everything that his mother and father should be teaching him? Cameron knew that feeling, too. Been there, done that, and it led to a lot of disappointments growing up.

He sighed and turned his thoughts back to the music track that he was supposed to be listening to. It was pointless to be thinking of the child anyway, because if she was truly pregnant, what were the chances it was really his?

"Sounded great," Cameron said once the song ended. "How many more do we have left to record?"

"Two, maybe three. Depends on how well the record execs like what we have so far," Riley told him. "We'll probably be finished by late next week, then we'll get the mixing done, and have the album ready by the end of the month."

"Finally! It feels like it took this one forever to be finished." Cameron glanced at his watch. "Okay, I'm out. I've got to head home and get ready for my date tonight."

"Alright, see you tomorrow, bright and early," Riley told him. "And get some sleep, you look like shit!"

Cameron nodded as he left the studio. If only he could get some sleep, but all he seemed to do at night lately was toss and turn, his mind running wild.

Madison stood and brought a tissue to her lips. She took a deep breath. Her stomach was still shaky. Was it ever calm these days? It felt like her morning sickness was never going to cease. And why the hell was it called morning sickness anyway? It was morning, noon, and night sickness. And sometimes middle of the night sickness.

She couldn't wait for the end of her first trimester, since she had read that most of the sickness would fade by then, at least for most women.

She sincerely hoped she was like most women.

She had done a good job of hiding her pregnancy so far. The only people that knew about it were Austin and Chase, and of course Cameron. Not that he believed her, but at least she had given him the opportunity to be involved if he wanted to be. He