Page 19 of Secret Baby for Dr. Billionaire

“She looks like you,” Ben pointed out, but it wasn’t to disarm me. It was just him stating the fact like he was fucking dreaming. Sofi had my skin and my hair, but to me, none of those things mattered because she had been staring at me with Ben’s eyes her entire life. “Her eyes…”

Ben didn’t finish his sentence. Instead, he shook the daze from his face and returned his gaze to me.

“What are you doing here, then, Chloe?”

“You were the one who knocked on my door, Ben.”

“I mean here. In Miami. Aren’t you supposed to be in New York? Don’t you have kids to teach?”

Okay, fine. It was kind of attractive how much he remembered things about me even though two years had already passed.

“I could ask you the same thing. Don’t you have business there?” I noticed the way Ben swayed Sofi in his arms like it was second nature. Like he was used to it. Then I remembered that he said he also had a child.

“I have business everywhere. I was on business when we met in New York.”

“Are you on business here now?”

“No, I live here. Which leads me back to my question: What areyoudoing here?”

“I live here now, too.”

“How did you know my address?”

Was he serious right now?

I shook my head in disbelief. It had been for ages, and Ben hadn’t gotten over the fact that I didn’t have a vendetta against him. It should probably hurt me that he was so untrusting, and because of this, he had neglected us.

Noticing that Sofi was fast asleep in his arms, I stretched out mine and gathered Sofi from him. A jolt of warmth spread through me as his arm lightly brushed against mine. The electricity in the air was palpable. But I ignored it as I shifted Sofi in my arms and marched towards her room to settle her on her bed. I didn’t care that Ben was left dumbfounded in my living room.

After I tucked Sofi in her crib and turned on her lullaby machine, I grabbed her teething ring from one of her drawers and walked out, closing her door behind me.

I headed towards the kitchen, and I could still see Ben in my peripheral vision. His gaze was like an invisible touch on my pale skin. I didn’t know what to say to this man right now. But I was glad he was still here because now I could say what I wanted to say without worrying about Sofi.

Opening the freezer, I slid the teething ring in, hoping that by the time Sofi woke up, she’d have something to bite on to soothe her gums.

“Not the freezer,” Ben called from the living room. “You just need it chilled.”

Of course. Because frozen rings can injure her gums, I hated that he was right.

With a groan, I removed the ring from the freezer and transferred it to the top of the vegetable drawer instead.

I took a deep breath before turning to face Ben.

God, he was exquisite. If only he was hard on the eyes, it would’ve been easier for me to hate him. He was wearing a plain shirt and pajamas, and he still looked handsome. This was fucking torture. But I wasn’t letting my guard down.

We hate Ben, I thought to myself.

“I didn’t know.”

“What?”

“You asked me how I knew your address. I didn’t know.”

“Yet here you are, Chloe.”

“Yet here I am, Ben,” I echoed. “If I would’ve known I’d be living across from you, I wouldn’t have taken this place.”

“Because you wanted to hide from me after all your lies?”

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