Free Never Have A Baller's Baby: A Bad Boy Pregnancy Romance by Lena Skye

straight into his arms and hugged him in return, holding herself close to him as they stood together.
    At long last, she let him go, taking a step back from him and looking up at him. “First, I want to thank you for recommending me to Jennifer Jones.”
    He looked at her in surprise. He was certain that Naomi had hated her for what she had thought was the affair Scott was having with her. “Jen?”
    “Yes,” Naomi continued. “She called me today and asked me to go over to her house. She wants me to decorate it. I’ll admit, I only knew her first name when I went over there, and if I had known who it was that I was going to see, I probably wouldn’t have gone at all, and that would have been a huge mistake on my part. She’s a really wonderful lady.”
    Scott blinked in total surprise. “Wonderful… yes… she’s pretty wonderful.” He grew silent as he watched Naomi, wondering where she was going with everything she was saying to him. He couldn’t have been more surprised by what she had already said.
    “So… you went to her house?” he asked, as he tried to wrap his thoughts around what she was telling him. He was beginning to think that it couldn’t have gone well to have them both there when Naomi thought that Jen was having an affair with him.
    “Yes, I went to her house, not realizing who she was. When I did find out, it was pretty awkward, as I’m sure you could imagine, but she didn’t know anything about me, and she just started talking and telling me what she wanted done there at the house. I would have turned her down for the job, but the truth is that I really need the work. The design firm needs the work. So, we don’t really have a choice; we have to do it.” She raised a brow at him and continued.
    “Anyway, she and I got to talking, and she told me that she is looking forward to the work because she can use it as a form of escapism from thinking about her ex-boyfriend David. I didn’t know that she had an ex-boyfriend, and I might have asked if she wasn’t seeing you, and she almost laughed in my face at such a ridiculous notion. She said the same thing that you told me: that the two of you are nothing more than very good friends and that there has never been a romance between you two, and there never would be. She thinks of you as a brother. She was much more wrapped up in her ex-boyfriend David, and getting over him, than talking about you. I was floored.” Naomi saw Scott’s face brighten as he began to realize what it was that Naomi was telling him.
    “So you know now! So you believe me, right?” he asked with anxious hope as the truth dawned on him.
    She smiled at him and nodded her head. “I do believe you, and I’m so very sorry that it took me hearing it from her to believe the truth. I should have believed you when you told me, but it just didn’t sound like it was the truth when you said it. I’m so sorry that I doubted you. It hurt me a great deal when I thought you were just keeping me on the side while you were dating her publicly. That was so hard to take, and it made it impossible for me to believe you. I hope you understand, and I hope that you can accept my apology.”
    He launched himself toward her and hugged her to him tightly, burying his face in her hair and her neck, breathing her in as he closed his eyes. “Yes… god yes. I understand, and I definitely accept your apology, as long as you accept mine. I never wanted you to be hurt. It’s just… so complicated in my world. It’s tough to balance all of the things that I have to do and be for everyone, and I couldn’t figure out how to fit you into all of that. I’m so sorry, too.”
    He kissed her cheek gently and whispered in her ear. “God I miss you. I miss you every single day.” He kissed her cheek again, and her heart skipped a beat as his mouth left her cheek and found her lips, moving over them tenderly, hungrily, almost drinking her in. She kissed him in return, and as she did so,