Romance: Sports Romance: ON SIDE (Secret Baby Pregnancy Football Romance) (Contemporary New Adult Fiction)

by Raven Monet

  Then I sat and pretended to type on my computer for a little while, just wanting him to think that I had stuff on.

  ***

  “That’s a great idea!” Dexter yelled once more. We’d been discussing ideas all afternoon, and it had gotten to the place where I was having some of my own. I was actually excited about my job for the very first time ever, and I couldn’t wait to implement all my new plans. They would work, they would bring in new business, I was sure of it.

  “Are we alone?” I suddenly asked, realizing that the rest of the office seemed eerily quiet. Normally, as soon as 5pm rolled around, I was out the door, but somehow in all of our conversations, I hadn’t realized that it was almost 7pm.

  “Yeah, we have been for a while.” Dexter didn’t seem to care that we were working so late. He was taking notes of all we were discussing – very soon, we were going to have a decent dossier to present to my father. I wondered if he had something better to do, but he seemed quite content to be here with me.

  As I watched him write, the memory of the night before flashed into my mind, and a stirring occurred within me. Almost as if he could sense the sudden change in the atmosphere, Dexter looked up and smiled at me.

  “Are you okay?” He asked curiously.

  I nodded. “Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you. Your ideas have been invaluable. I really appreciate it.”

  An odd look passed across his face before he answered. “Of course, that’s what your dad hired me for.”

  A moment passed, and the next thing I knew papers were falling to the floor, and Dexter and I were kissing passionately. I don’t know who made the first move, all I knew was that we were glued together as if nothing could tear us apart.

  I felt Dexter lift me up onto the chair and place me on the table. Whilst I was there, I wrapped my legs around him, pulling him closer to me, giving me a good feel of his thick, throbbing erection. He was rock solid, and somehow that was because of me! I didn’t know how that was possible – I wasn’t the sexy, confident type that I was sure he was used to, but I didn’t vocalize my fears. I was far too turned on for anything to stop this from happening. I was determined to just go with the flow.

  He began tugging at my top, wanting it off, and in that moment, I did too. I yanked it, hearing a few buttons pop as it tore from me. Dexter’s fingers made their way around my back to unhook my bra, and as soon as it fell to the ground, his lips found their way to my nipples, sending waves of bliss rushing right through me. He licked and tugged with his teeth, which sent all kinds of crazy sensations flowing through me.

  After a minute or so, I began to pull his top off too. I could tell that he had some serious abs under there, and I wanted to get my hands on them. I was not disappointed either as they were revealed to me, this guy was ripped! Clearly he spent a lot of time in the gym.

  His hands were trailing up my thighs again, but this time, his fingers weren’t going to be enough. I wanted to feel him; I wanted him to take me right here on the work desk before I had the opportunity to talk myself out of it. I needed him and I wanted him to understand that.

  “Fuck me,” I whispered to him, sounding far braver than I felt. I just didn’t want him to treat me with kid gloves. I wanted this to happen, and I knew I’d be gutted if it didn’t. I didn’t want a misunderstanding to be the reason I was left unsatisfied.

  Dexter didn’t need telling twice, he trusts me as soon as the words had left my mouth, causing us both to gasp out in shock.

  “Oh fuck.” I groaned, gripping tighter to him, while he rode me as if there was no tomorrow. “You feel so good.”

  “You’re amazing baby.” He whispered against my cheek, kissing me sporadically. “So wet, so tight, just for me.”

  It wasn’t long before the pleasure began to pool in my stomach, and soon it was coursing through my veins and causing my body to rock and shudder. I couldn’t believe how good this guy was – he’d given me two mind blowing orgasms on two consecutive days, and it was intoxicating.

  As he pulled away from me, both of us panting wildly, I began to fear that I was becoming addicted to him, that I might never be able to stop being with him. I knew he wasn’t the ‘forever’ type – he had too much of a bad boy vibe for that – and I feared I was going to end up with my heart shattered into a million pieces.

  Chapter Seven – Dexter

  As the weeks passed, mine and Lori’s secret relationship grew in intensity. She was one hell of a distraction, completely sidetracking me from my original mission at Empire Technology, and I didn’t even care. Ever since that night in the alleyway, I’d actually been doing some market research and had been coming up with ideas. Now, I practically was the marketing expert that I’d pretended to be, and in a weird way, it was kind of exhilarating. I found myself actually enjoying the work.

  It was ironic that I was putting more effort into marketing my rival company – the one I was supposed to be taking down – than my own, but I had Lori, so nothing else really mattered.

  She was intoxicatingly beautiful and sexy as all hell, and to top it all off she was growing increasingly adventurous in the bedroom, which was driving me wild. She made me completely reconsider my entire game plan. I figured that I didn’t really need to take down Empire Technology. After all, my own technology business was doing just fine, and I had plenty of companies at my disposal anyway.

  Money wasn’t exactly an issue for me! I wasn’t sure why I’d been so determined to end it in the first place.

  I was even starting to reconsider my criminal empire, which was shocking for me. Something about Lori made me want to be a better man. I hadn’t actually done anything to act upon these whims, but they were there all the same. I knew that I might just change, should the time come.

  We had to try and keep professional at work, to try and keep our union a secret, but when we were at her home (I hadn’t yet invited her to mine. I felt like it screamed criminal, and I was afraid that she would guess the truth) it was a whole different matter.

  Like tonight for example. We’d kept things strictly business all day, secretly sending each other dirty text messages to amp up the tension between us, then we’d torn each other’s clothes off as soon as we’d gotten home, and we’d fucked all over the place. It was wild and crazy and I absolutely loved it.

  I was slightly concerned that my feelings were growing in intensity, and I had no idea where that would leave me, but it wasn’t enough to make me stop.

  I’d had relationships before, but they’d always been purely physical. Although the sex between myself and Lori was fantastic, I was more interested in her as a person, than in her body. I found her fascinating. Where I’d assumed that she was boring, not going out partying every night, I was actually starting to learn that she was incredibly intelligent. Instead of getting wasted and whiling hours away pointlessly, she was reading, increasing her knowledge of the world. I found myself having the most interesting conversations with her, and often I didn’t want her to stop talking, even as she was drifting off to sleep.

  I wasn’t sure what her destiny was in this world, but I was certain that she was worth more than some PR job in her daddy’s business.

  Once I’d actually asked her what she wanted out of life, but she’d dodged the question, proving to me that she didn’t really know. We were alike in that aspect, both floating through our existence, not really knowing where we belonged or what our purpose was. When I’d first seen Lori, I assumed that we couldn’t have been more different, but despite our varied life choices, we had a whole lot in common.

  Deep, deep down I already knew that she was the one for me, but I wasn’t ready to accept that yet. I had no idea what to even do with that information, where I would begin. I’d always been the playboy, the bachelor – I could do that, I was good at it. How would I, the criminal expert, settle down in a normal life and be a typical husband, family man?

  I wasn’t sure that I could, and I certainly didn’t want Lori to be my test dummy. I
was digging myself a hole, sinking in deeper and deeper, fully in the knowledge that one day I would have to try and dig myself out...

  It was a mess, and I was sure that it would eventually come crashing down on me. But for the time being, I was enjoying every damn minute of it.

  Chapter Eight – Lori

  As time passed, I realized that I was falling head over heels in love with Dexter. Of course, I didn’t vocalize this. I fully intended to let him do it first, but it was there inside of me, like a delicious little secret that only I knew.

  There was only one problem, and I’d been trying to ignore it for weeks and weeks, but it had gotten to the stage where I couldn’t put off finding out the answer any longer.

  It had started with me being late... very late. Then had come the morning sickness – that had been hard to hide – and now I was totally convinced that I needed to take the test. I felt like I already knew what the outcome was going to be, but that I had to be sure. Only, that was difficult to do when I spent twenty-four hours a day with the one man that I couldn’t let know.

  We’d only been dating for a few weeks. There was no way a man like Dexter Smith was going to be happy that I was knocked up. He wasn’t the ‘forever’ type – I imagined that he had all kinds of commitment issues. He’d freak out and storm off when I told him, and it was unlikely that I would ever see him again!

  That being said, I still needed to know one way or the other...

  I’d finally managed to sneak off to the pharmacy by myself, and now I was sitting in the office toilets, just waiting for the white stick to reveal my future. Was my life about to change forever? What was I going to do if it did?

  Tick, tick.

  Each second flew past painfully, feeling like an hour. It started to drive me crazy.

  Then the blue cross appeared, confirming what I already knew, letting me know that nothing would ever be the same again...

  Positive.

  “Shit,” I muttered to myself, as my emotions went wild within me, finally settling on numb.

  I wasn’t ready to become a mom – not when I’d been so close to actually kick-starting a decent career for myself. I’d actually been taking my job seriously, and achieving stuff. Now, that was all about to fall apart. It was all going to be wasted,

  I tossed the stick in the bin and wandered out into the office in a daze. I couldn’t stay in the toilets forever – especially if I didn’t want to have to tell anyone what was going on. I was going to have to face the real world eventually, and I figured that it would be best to do it when I was numb, rather than a sobbing mess – I was certain that the tears were on their way and I needed to distract myself from them.

  “Are you okay?” Dexter asked me, drinking in my pale appearance. “Is something going on?” He raced to my side and threw his arm over my shoulder – making me feel even worse than I already did.

  I instantly shook my head, not wanting to confess the truth just yet. I knew that as soon as it came out, I would lose him forever, and I wasn’t ready for that. I wasn’t ready to let go of the fantasy that I’d been living in. I wanted to cling onto to it for just a few more seconds.

  “I’m just... I’m not very well.” I replied feebly, giving a lame excuse for my behavior.

  “I’ll go and get you a drink of water.”

  As soon as he left the room, my father stormed in, his face looking angrier than ever. I instantly started to panic that he somehow knew – even though there was no possible way he could have found out. I just couldn’t see what else would have put him in such a foul mood.

  “Where is he?” He yelled, practically spitting across the room. “Where is he?”

  “Dexter?” He was making me nervous; I’d never seen my dad so mad. He was normally such a calm and considered man – I got that side of my personality from him.

  “Yeah, Dexter Smith... or should I say, Wilde!”

  “Huh?” I had no idea what he was on about. I knew that my brain wasn’t quite as sharp as what I was used to, but I didn’t think I’d be able to catch up even if I was on top form.

  “Dexter Wilde, who runs Wilde Enterprises.” My face was still blank. “He’s our rival. He’s come in here to take us down.”

  Take us down?

  Was this all some elaborate scheme?

  My world fell out from beneath me as I suddenly realized that I must have been a part of that plan. I’d always been aware that we didn’t make sense – that he was a hundred times hotter than me – but it still hurt. I’d been a toy in his game, and now I was pregnant. I’d been left with a permanent consequence of his actions, and now he was about to scarper forever.

  I’d guessed that I would end up alone, but I hadn’t realized it was going to be like this...

  I began to feel dizzy and nauseous, and I quickly ran from the room and back into the toilet. There I threw up; vomiting until I was certain that there was nothing left inside.

  And that’s when the tears finally made their unwelcome appearance.

  Chapter Nine – Dexter

  I’d gone back into the office expecting to find a sickly looking Lori, and instead, I’d come across her father who was absolutely furious at me. I was becoming increasingly convinced that he was actually going to hit me.

  Somehow he’d found out my real identity and he was fuming loudly, not caring who could hear him.

  “...and don’t think I won’t call the police because I will...”

  “Look, I...” Every time I tried to defend myself, he jumped all over me, not letting me get a word in edgeways. I wanted to tell him that my plan had changed, that I’d actually been helping his company, but there was no way I was going to be able to get him to see sense. He was far too riled up and angry.

  Then, I spotted Lori walking back into the room, and my heart fell into my shoes. Clearly her father had already spoken to her, and she’d completely gotten the wrong end of the stick when it came to us – it was written all over her face.

  She hated me, she thought I’d used her. She would never trust me again, and it was all my own damn fault. I should have confessed before it came to this – why had I buried my head in the sand? I should have guessed that the truth was going to come out eventually. If I’d talked this beforehand, I could have controlled how I came across.

  Now, I was completely and utterly screwed.

  Her dad was still screaming at me, but I couldn’t hear what he was saying anymore. It was all white noise. All I could focus on was Lori and the way she was looking at me like she wanted to ground to open up and swallow me whole.

  “I want you to get out!” He screamed in my face, desperate for me to hear. “Get out and never come back.”

  “Okay,” I whispered. There was no point in arguing anymore. It wasn’t getting any of us anywhere. “I’ll go.”

  Then he left the room to go and get security, giving me a much needed minute with Lori, but she held up her hand, not letting me talk.

  “I know who you are, and I know what you did.” She whispered, sounding absolutely heartbroken.

  “I...” Again, I wasn’t going to get the chance to defend myself.

  “I don’t want to hear anything that you have to say. I just want you to go.” Her tone was cold; she really meant what she was saying.

  “It wasn’t...”

  “No.” She was firm, she wouldn’t take anything from me today, I could tell. “I just think you should know that your actions have consequences. Serious ones. I might have only been a game to you, but now I’m pregnant.” Her voice cracked with the emotion of it all. “Now, you need to go.”

  Pregnant?

  And then she walked from the room, leaving me dazed and confused, and completely and utterly alone.

  Pregnant!

  Was she pregnant? Was she carrying my child? I didn’t know how to feel about that at all – I knew we’d been a bit risky, not really considering contraception, but I hadn’t really been thinking about the consequences of that. Lori had been rig
ht about that much, but I didn’t want to leave. I could tell that much about myself! I wanted to stay, I wanted to love her, I wanted to get used to the idea of becoming parents together.

  I didn’t want the mother of my child to think that I was the scum of the Earth, but what could I do?

  I halfway decided to chase after her, to explain, but I knew that it would do no good. She needed time to calm down, just like her father did. If I tried to communicate with her now, I would only end up making things so much worse.

  It was safe to say that utterly fucked!

  Eventually, the security guards turned up, and they guided me to the outside, and far away from the woman I loved, and the child that she was carrying.

  The worst part was, it was all that I deserved.

  Chapter Ten – Lori

  “Do you want to know what you’re having?” The doctor asked, running the ultrasound across my stomach. The cool gel was uncomfortable, as was my very full bladder, but I wasn’t concentrating on the negatives. Just the life that was steadily growing inside of me. “Or do you want a surprise?”

  “No, please tell me.” I’d had enough shocks to last me a lifetime; I wanted to know a little more about what my future held. My life had been such a mess or months and months – this baby was the only thing that was allowing me to hold it together!

  After Dexter had been forced from the office, I had resigned my position too, explaining that I was about to have a baby. There was no way I could have stayed there, working with people that hated me, surrounded by the memories of what might have been. It was too painful. Everything Dexter related damn near killed me. My dad had understood – sort of – and had given me money to get started on my own, but now that he knew I was pregnant by the man who had tried to overthrow his business, he was being far less understanding. I hadn’t told him right away that Dexter was the father, but eventually, I’d been forced to confess.