The Footballer's Designer Baby (A BWWM Pregnancy Romance) Read Online Free

wrong, this is serious, but… it was just a bit too serious in there for me, and I needed to get out. I just wanted to meet you, to talk to you a little and kind of get to know what you are like. Is that okay? Do you know what I mean?” His nerves had begun to settle and he felt calmer than he had in the board room.
     
    She smiled back at him, nodding. She agreed with him.
     
    “I know what you mean. It was a little nerve-wracking.  I understand how important it is; I totally get that, but you’re right. Jim was really serious in there.”
     
    The elevator doors slid open and they stepped out together into the lobby and headed for the little café that overlooked the street outside. He asked the host for a private table and the host did a double take, and then grinned and nodded obligingly.
     
    He put them in the furthest corner and instructed one of his waiters to put a screen up between their table and the rest of the café, so that they’d have some privacy.
     
    Delilah watched them in wonder and after they were alone at their table, she asked him quietly,
     
    “Do people do that for you often?”
     
    He nodded.
     
    “Oh yeah, well, it can be difficult for both the business and for me if a crowd of people suddenly comes up to me, so usually I call ahead, or someone calls for me, and I have a private table set aside when I get there, but this was kind of spur of the moment, and we were lucky that they were able to hide us, really.”
     
    The waiter brought them both coffees and left them.
     
    “So, uh… how did you wind up wanting to do surrogacy?” he asked her.
     
    He looked up at her, liking the color of her eyes, wondering if his son would have his eyes or hers, and thinking that if it was either, it would be fine.
     
    “Well, I’m working my way through school and it’s expensive. This is going to enable me to pay it all off and be debt free before I get my doctorate, and that’s really important to me. It’s kind of a sacrifice, but I look at it more as an opportunity to help someone else have a family and it becomes mutually beneficial that way.”
     
    “Oh!” he said, raising his eyebrows.
     
    “That’s a good way to look at it. I guess it must be kind of a surprise that it’s me you’re doing this for. Did they tell you?”
     
    She shook her head.
     
    “No, they didn’t tell me at first, not until Jim contacted me to let me know you wanted to meet me. He said he wanted me to be prepared so that I wouldn’t be surprised when I found out it was you. I was still surprised, but I was prepared when I met you.
     
    “I’m really surprised by the way you are… I mean, I guess I thought you’d be… I don’t know, hard to talk to, maybe more standoffish. You’re friendlier than I expected, and polite. That’s a nice surprise.”
     
    He laughed lightly and shrugged.
     
    “Well, it’s just how I am. My mom would be pretty put out with me if I wasn’t polite. It’s just how we were raised. Where are your parents?”
     
    “They live in Berkeley. They’re both professors at the university; he teaches history and she teaches psychology.”
     
    “Do they know you’re going to do this? No one is supposed to know about it,” he said, worrying a little about her answer.
     
    She shook her head.
     
    “No, they don’t know. They’d be pretty upset with me if they knew, but it’s okay. I didn’t want to lie to them, so I just told them I was doing a work study program in biology and I’d be living on site for a year, so they wouldn’t be able to see me, but we could talk on the phone, email, text, things like that. They were fine with that.”
     
    Cameron laughed out loud again.
     
    “A work study program in biology! That’s clever! Can you keep up your classes while you’re doing this?”
     
    She nodded.
     
    “Yeah, I’ll be doing online courses, and Jim is giving me an apartment near the medical center while I do this, so everything is taken care of, and