“I don’t know what it is, but he’s made it clear, he wants to be in the baby’s life if I end up deciding I want custody.”
“You don’t know if you want to raise your own child?”
“What experience do I have? My mother was nuts. I have no role models. Her mother threw her out so I’ve never even had a grandmother,” Violet said.
She’d refused to try and contact her grandmother when her mother died. The woman should have been in her life. Just like her father should have, but she didn’t know who he was. Her mother had never told her.
“But you could do it.”
“Maybe. There are days when I think I can. Other days I think that visitation rights might be a good idea. Let Amedeo worry about the day-to-day stuff.”
“You can’t be serious.”
“You would keep a baby if you had it?”
“Yes.”
Kalia had been pregnant, but had an abortion. Violet surmised that her friend regretted it daily. “I don’t know. My brain is all a jumble these days.”
“Pregnancy hormones.”
“So Amedeo hired you also?”
“Yes he did. He has a hacker that has broken into his system. I’m pretty close to tracking down the person.”
“He’s paying you?”
“More than any client I’ve ever had. The money is good if I go after the right people to be my customer.”
“Are you sleeping with him?”
Violet paused at the question. She usually shared everything with Kalia, but this seemed too personal. “Okay, we are.”
“How is he in the sack?”
“He’s pretty amazing. Best lover I’ve ever had.”
“He’s hung?”
Violet chuckled. “Yes.”
Kalia smiled. “Lucky you. He sounds like the real deal. You need to hang onto this man.”
“Why? We’re just having fun until the baby comes. Then we’ll return to our lives.”
“It won’t be that easy.”
“Why not? We’ll have the baby in common, but that’s it.”
“That’s it? Violet, do you hear yourself?’
“What?”
Kalia shook her head. Violet didn’t know what she was thinking.
“You’re in love with this guy.”
In love? “No I’m not. We had a one night stand and now we’re having sex. It’s all good. I’m not in love.”
“You keep telling yourself that, girlfriend.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Violet said.
She didn’t have feelings for Amedeo. Okay, she liked him, but not that way. Not in a romantic way. She’d miss the sex, that was for sure. Kalia was reading too much into the situation.
“Whatever.”
Their meals arrived. Violet’s was a cheeseburger. Kalia ate a salad. She eyed what Violet was eating. “Must be nice to eat what you want.”
“It is. I don’t eat bad stuff all the time, but sometimes I really crave meat.”
“You must be having a boy.”
“Why?”
“Don’t men like meat more than women?” Kalia said.
“I don’t know. I don’t know that much about men.”
“You know how to land one for sure.” Kalia laughed.
Violet hadn’t gotten pregnant on purpose. She didn’t feel she’d landed Amedeo either. They weren’t in love. They weren’t going to be in love either. They were having fun while they could. That was the end of it. Anything else that Kalia saw was her own imagination.
“I didn’t land Amedeo. He just happens to be the father of my child.”
“I’ll bet he does everything in his power to keep you happy because of that.”
“It’s just his nature.”
“Whatever.”
Violet was beginning to hate that word. Kalia was so sure she was right. Her friend always thought she was right. Violet let out a breath. She didn’t want to fight with her best friend, so she chose not to.
“Let’s not fight, okay? I don’t get to see you that often.”
“I’m not trying to start a fight. I’m sorry,” Kalia said.
Violet nodded, knowing everything would be okay between them.
Chapter9
Amedeo had been thinking about the future all day. The idea that he was going to be someone’s parent was becoming more and more real as time progressed. . Violet would eventually be showing. He’d see an ultrasound that looked like a baby.
He had to stop and catch his breath. Having a child was nothing like running a company or even selling a company. He would have to figure out something new. Not that he wasn’t up for the task, he just couldn’t do as much research as he normally did when he embarked on a new venture.