Dazzle: The Billionaire's Secret Surrogate (Contemporary BWWM Romance) by Destiny Davis Page A

from,” he stated, the earnestness in his voice like a balm soothing her ragged nerves. He turned to take one of her hands, effectively ending her twiddling. “I’m only interested in where we will go from here. In our future.”
    His words, the way he had said our future , had the sting of tears prickling at the corner of each eye.
    “But you must know I’ve never lived in your world,” she said, as the tears that had been threatening before began to fall now. “I don’t know how to be a billionaire’s girlfriend.”
    “You haven’t been anybody’s girlfriend anyway,” he chuckled, squeezing her hand. “No matter who you choose to be with for your first time, you’ll still have a lot to learn. And I want to be the person to show you, to teach you everything you’ve been missing.”
    “No, I’m talking about how to act and stuff,” she protested. “What to do at some high society function, or what sorts of things your friends would think was not okay to say or do.”
    “So what?” he scoffed. “I’m attracted to you. I want you the way you are, and if they can’t see the amazing person that you are, well, then they aren’t really my friends anyways, right?” He could see that his words hadn’t really helped to ease her tension. “There’s always etiquette class, right? Or just act like you’re on the runway. Be confident. I’m sure you could figure it all out, Kady.” Archer gently squeezed the hand he had engulfed by his own. “Or, we can figure it out together.”
    “I—I don’t know, Archer, maybe we should just take this slowly?”
    “Well…” He paused, and suddenly it was his turn to look nervously at his hands, his long fingers tangled intimately with hers. “ It can’t be too slow if we’re actually wanting to do the baby thing,” he replied, his voice held an edge of trepidation as he continued slowly, finally looking at her with resignation in his eyes. “My mother told a bit of a lie to keep me out of prison last month. That’s why I was trying to figure out what to do about it in the first place.”
    “What kind of a lie?” Kady wanted to know, the hope that had been kindling in her chest taking a nosedive at his words.
    “She told the judge that since my girlfriend was pregnant, that it would be unfair to send me to jail for three to five years, especially for a crime I didn’t even commit,” he replied, obviously struggling to find the right words to explain. He leaned back and sighed deeply. “She really laid it on kind of thick, you know? But it got me thinking, though. I’ve been tired of the endless parties and all the women who don’t even care how I think or feel. I figured, even if I can’t find a girl who loves me, I could at least produce one who was pregnant at the hearing in two months, and keep myself from going down.”
    “So, you’re trying to get a girl pregnant with your child to get out of a jail sentence? You know how crazy that sounds, right? And saying that you want to start a real relationship with me, but you don’t even know if you’d be able to participate in it beyond the next two months?” Kady growled. “I really can’t believe what I’m hearing from you.”
    “I know, I know, it might sound stupid, Kady,” he responded. “But I’ve had months to think it over, and while yes, originally I was thinking only of selfish reasons to go forward with this idea, I also…” He paused for a moment before continuing, his words slow and deliberate, “I came to realize that I want more than the playboy lifestyle I’ve been living. I want, I want a family. Someone to make all this, all the hard work and millions of hours that I’ve put into building this business, worth it, you know? I only know I was speaking straight from my heart. I don’t know if I could deal with having you without my heart getting involved along the way. I’m trying to be honest here.”
    “So is that everything that you need to tell me before I make up