A Kiss of Color: A BWWM Interracial Pregnancy Romance (Book 2) Read Free

proving his parents every expectation about his failure completely wrong.
    It was like an immense weight had been lifted from his shoulders. For as much as Xavier had always wanted to succeed for his own prosperity – indeed, after he’d graduated, his parents had stopped supporting him completely. They’d been disgusted with his career choice – since he was young, he’d wanted to prove to his parents that he could thrive outside of their controlling grip.
    Now, he was building his own empire. One that, if he calculated correctly, would rival the worth of his family’s within five years. While Helena had been sure he’d be able to pay back the money she’d loaned him in five years, he’d presented it to her within one and a half. Of course, she hadn’t wanted to take it, but he’d forced her to. It was, after all, he reminded her, just a loan.
    The company had soon outgrown their small corner office, and so he’d expanded into a larger one downtown. Months after that, Xavier, with Helena’s coaxing, had begun looking into other California locations. The end of the year had seen ten of them, all thriving, throughout the state. Three years after the company’s incarnation, XTech had fifty locations across the US, as well as some impressive contracts with larger manufacturing companies.
    Xavier, however, was no slack. None of what he’d accomplished had come without hard work. As Helena had been struggling through her medical courses, so too had he been with expanding his company. But bit by tentative bit, he was watching it grow into an IT goliath. He’d worked his share of long days and overnight stints. Even though he now found himself CEO of one of the fastest growing companies in Northern America, he still liked to work on some of the computers that came into his downtown office. Xavier didn’t think that would ever change. Programming was his niche just as much was medicine was Helena’s, and it always made him happy.
    Despite the hectic nature of both of their lives, both he and Helena were thriving – in their separate careers, and also, together. He didn’t know if he would have been able to accomplish anything he had without her by his side. She always found time to support him with a kind word, to reassure him when it seemed like the weight of the world was pressing down on his shoulders, and to banish all his worries with the heat of her mouth against his own.
    God, in the four years they’d been together, if anything, his desire for her had only increased. He could never get enough of the way she squirmed beneath his ministrations. How she moaned at the touch of his tongue against her most intimate places, and called his name in the grips of her climax. Just thinking about it was enough to get him hard.
    Which wasn’t very convenient, considering that he was currently pressed right up against the object of his frustrations.
    Carefully, he began the process of extricating himself from her. Any longer and he might do something he’d regret. Well, he wouldn’t regret it…he’d just regret waking her. It took the dark-haired man about five minutes to safely untangle himself from his lover before he slipped soundlessly from bed, clad in only his boxer briefs, to stretch leisurely.
    He’d make breakfast for her. Xavier knew how much Helena always lamented about having her breakfast on the go. Then, they’d sit down and have a meal together – something they hadn’t indulged in for at least two or three weeks. Maybe he’d even decide to do something crazy, like take the day off to be with her. He was sure that Margaret, his office manager, might have something to say about that, but at this point, he hardly cared.
    He just wanted to spend time with the woman he loved.
    Xavier was reaching for his robe, intent on making his way to the kitchen, when his phone buzzed atop the bedside table. He froze, cursing his carelessness. He should have grabbed the phone when he woke up. He leapt across the