Dazzle: The Billionaire's Secret Surrogate (Contemporary BWWM Romance) Read Free Page B

get another person to take over there.”
    “Oh, I already got all my boxes stashed, thanks. The stuff that’s still in there either belongs to Melina or I’m not interested in bringing it. That couch, for example. We dove it out of a dumpster, so it can go right back where it came from.”
    “Great, then, you have a good night, and remember that I’m pulling for you,” he said. “And don’t forget to call the shelters another time. You might get lucky.”
    “Yeah, thanks,” she replied. She sighed as she watched him drive away, wondering if she was ever going to see him again. He had been a good and kind neighbor, and she would miss him and his silly jokes. She turned abruptly and headed back up the stairs.
    As she looked around the place that had been her home for the last seven months, she couldn’t help but sigh in regret. Kady had worked so hard to build something stable in her life, to help launch her career and hopefully become a space to funnel her creativity into fashion designs. That definitely wasn’t going to happen now, and the uncertainty of her future ate at her. As well, she was deeply upset about the feelings of betrayal that still simmered hotly at Melina’s actions.
    She’d been planning to sleep here tonight on Melina’s bed, but she was still so mad at her that she couldn’t stand to be around her belongings anymore, so she took her last eighty dollars and the key to the apartment. The key she dropped off in the landlady’s box. The eighty dollars she used to find a really cheap motel room where she could sleep until they threw her out.
    Maybe she’d go tomorrow to see that guy. It seemed like a rather desperate idea, having a baby just so you could get on your own two feet. It was depressing, really, and it almost made her angry as well. She had spent four years at school and even more years than that taking odd modeling jobs, and yet here she was, in some motel in a seedy part of town all thanks to one inconsiderate friend.
    It was hard to believe that she was lying here contemplating such a drastic course of action, and yet, in her current frame of mind, she just couldn’t come up with a better way. It shouldn’t be too difficult to just go to a clinic, have the sperm of some guy she didn’t even know placed in her body, and birth a kid she most likely wouldn’t even get to know, right? She wasn’t sure she could lie to herself quite that well, but maybe by morning she’d have worked up enough courage to convince her resistant mind it was true.
    Tears pricked at her eyes as she considered what a good mother she could make. She had taken care of plenty of cousins, nieces, and nephews in her time. She could bake cookies and cakes with the best of them, and she knew plenty about how to read them stories and teach them to talk and to go potty. So it would be such a waste, giving her baby to some single rich guy who, for some reason, didn’t have a wife and didn’t seem to want one.
    “What reason could this guy possibly have for not wanting to get married and have a baby with his wife the normal way?” she asked herself out loud. “Is he even the kind of guy I’d want raising any kid of mine?”
    With a name like the one on this slip, ‘Archer Devonshire’, he sounded like some kind of import from England or something. Probably as white as they came. So, if that was true, hopefully the racial diversity would not be a factor as well.
    “It’s either this guy or a park bench,” she grumbled. “Either way I go, tomorrow is going to mark one hell of a change in my world.”

Chapter 4
     
    Morning came far too soon as far as Kady was concerned. She took the overnight bag that she’d brought with her to the motel back to her storage unit via the bus, and then took the train out to the White Plains area, where Archer Devonshire’s house was located.
    She got out of the train and walked for about a mile before she reached the main road of the house she was looking for. It took