Traded to His Enemy, Pregnant With His Heir novel · Chapter 22 of 48
Chapter 22: The Birth
I didn't answer him.
I didn't turn my head.
I kept my eyes on the brass doors of the elevator and walked toward them with the bag of cherries in my arms.
"Shona. Please." His voice cracked across the lobby. "I'm not asking for her. I'm not asking for anything. Just look at me. One time. So I know you still see me."
The doorman came around the desk.
Two of Ilya's men came out of the coffee bar, slow, and stood between us without touching him.
I pressed the button.
"Please," Gianluca said. "I sent roses to your station for a month. You loved me once. Look at me like you did."
The doors opened.
I stepped in and turned around to face the panel, and I looked at the numbers.
Forty-one.
"Please see him out," I said to the doorman. "And get him a cab. He doesn't have a car."
The doors closed on the sound of him saying my name.
I rode all the way up with my back straight and my hand on my belly, and she kicked me once, hard, under the ribs.
That night was Galina's sixty-second birthday.
She'd said she didn't want a party.
She'd said it every day for a week, louder each time, until Ilya understood she wanted the biggest party of her life.
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