Page 31 of Her Billionaire's Baby Secret

“I’m sure it’s changed me some, but that would be hard to avoid. My life is vastly different now.”

“I can’t even imagine what it must be like.”

“Why don’t you let me show you?” Kane offered.

“What do you mean by that?”

“You can come visit me in New York, and I can give you a taste of what it’s like to live my life.”

“You’d do that?”

“Sure. I think it would be fun.”

Sariah looked away. “I don’t really like the city.”

“That’s because you haven’t been shown around properly,” Kane said.

“I guess you have a point.”

“Would you be interested in something like that?”

“Maybe.”

Their server brought their drinks and took the order for their dinner before returning to the kitchen. Sariah sipped her fresh squeezed lemonade, and Kane opened his bottle of artesian water and poured it into his glass of ice.

“How does Hadley’s compare with some of the restaurants in New York City?” Sariah asked.

“I guess that depends on where you go. I like eating at all sorts of places. Sometimes I want to grab a fast-food burger. Other times I’m eating at one of the priciest restaurants in the city. Hadley’s is great, but it falls somewhere in between.”

“You eat fast food?” Sariah teased.

“I told you, I’m still me. Just because I have money doesn’t mean I don’t like eating at the cheapest burger joint in town.”

“I would have thought you’d always be eating gourmet food.”

“I do eat that way a lot when my chef cooks for me. I like to stay fit, and that requires a healthy menu. He prepares food very specifically for me according to my diet. I have a personal trainer who works closely with my chef to come up with the right meals for me.”

“I remember you being concerned with what you were eating even back in high school. Most guys were eating everything in sight, and you were trying to pack in protein and veggies.”

“I was just figuring out my diet back then.”

“We were figuring out a lot of things back then,” Sariah said, her voice quiet.

“Do you think it was a mistake for us to break up?” Kane asked. Why was he asking this? Was he looking for ways to get rejected?

“No. You were moving away. I had a life in Maple Creek. And now you have a life in New York.”

Kane’s heart hurt at her words. She was right. They still had the same issue they had when they broke up last time. But being here with her made him wish they could find a way to overcome the problem. It was easy to talk to her.

“I’m having a good time,” Kane said. “I meet a lot of people in New York, but most of them don’t really get the real me. You knew me well before I came into money. You know the real Kane.”

“Do I still?”

“Yes. And if there are parts of me that are different, then I want you to get to know those parts.”

Sariah gazed at him, a small smile on her lips. “I want that too. I’m sure we’ve both changed over the years.”

“We’ve had life experience we didn’t have when we were kids,” Kane said.

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