Free The White Billionaire's Baby (BWWM Interracial Romance) by Lena Skye Page B

then he meant it. The key was to allow myself to believe it.
    “I spoke to Bill when you were in the bathroom freshening up at home,” he said.
    “ Oh yeah?”
    “ Yeah, he said that the prosecutors are pretty certain that Marcus is going to get the maximum sentence. The judge is a hard ass, and his track record shows that he isn’t going to take it easy on Marcus by any means.”
    “ What’s the maximum sentence?” I asked as I put my fork down on my plate.
    “ 4 years,” Kyle said slowly and emphasized each word.
    That familiar gurgling in my stomach took place again. I didn’t realize that he would get so long for blackmail. He was also up for a murder charge and so things weren’t looking good for him at all. I didn’t want to think about him behind bars and about the life that he was going to experience. I’d watched way too many episodes of OZ, and I was scarred by them. Marcus was tough, but he wasn’t as tough as a lot of the men there. His life was over, and it was partially my fault. He was about to be someone’s bitch, and I had something to do with it. I pushed away from the table and ran to the bathroom again so that I could relieve myself of my steak and lobster. ‘I should have known better than to eat seafood,’ I thought to myself. My stomach had been shaky all day, and so it wasn’t a good idea at all.
    When I returned to the table Kyle started to talk about our life together, “After we get married, I want to go traveling. We need to see the world, and we can open up restaurants all over.”
    “ That sounds amazing,” I said. I couldn’t wait to get married and go traveling He was also talking about working vacations and that was something that I could get with. I wanted to continue our business and enjoy our lives, and that seemed like the best of both worlds.
    “ Since we won’t have to worry about kids for a long while, we’ll have a lot of time,” he said as he pulled out his phone looked at his calendar. “How about exactly one month from today?”
    “ Whoa, you’re not wasting any time are you?”
    “ We’ve waited long enough and one month seems like forever. I want to steal you away and do it now, but I know that you want a real wedding.”
    He was right, I did want a wedding. If we didn’t have one, I would regret it for a long time. I only wanted to get married once and so it had to be right because it was a moment that I would never get to experience again.
    “I do want a wedding.”
    “ Okay, the date is set, and  nothing  is going to stop us this time,” he said matter of factly.
    I was excited for the first time in days. I was more than ready to be Mrs. Kane. He was everything that I wanted in a mate and so much more. Once again I felt like I was in a fairy tale, and we’d finally gotten to the good part. We went through all of the adversity and emerged relatively unscathed. Things would be tense for a while, but I wasn’t going to let anything steal my joy. I had my man, a career, and my wonderful friends. They were all that I needed to get by. I was rich in so many other ways than money. Once I put things into real perspective, I perked up and pushed all thoughts of Marcus to the back of my mind. He made his choices, and I made my own. I just happened to make a lot better choices, and I deserved every ounce of happiness that was coming my way.
     
    ***
    A few days later I went to hang out with Sandy. She couldn’t wait to catch up on all of the good news. I had been noticeably absent from my friends since the trial, but it was because I still wasn’t feeling well. My nerves were still on edge, and it was effecting my day. I cared way more about Marcus going to jail than I originally thought because it was taking a toll on me physically.
    “ You know how much I hate it when you disappear,” Sandy said.
    “ I know, but I’ve felt like crap for the last few days,” I admitted.
    “ Believe me, I noticed. Your trips to the bathroom were hard to