The Billionaire's Secret Baby: A BWWM Pregnancy Romance by Alexis Gold

until he took it off six months after the day he'd bought it. It hurt his heart too much to wear it, and Denise hated it. She constantly made ugly remarks about it to him, and he couldn't bear to listen to her any longer, so he took it off and hid it in a special box in his closet.
     
    "It was a year ago, good Captain,” he said solemnly. His mind flashed back to memories of her in his head. Memories that he only let filter through his thoughts once in a while, like sunlight on a foggy cloudy day, but those days were very few and far between. He focused on his business all of the time, and tried to keep up with his wife, and that was all.
     
    "A year? Well that's too long. Listen, I have a new boat, and I want you to get the first crack at it. I'm going to bring it to you in San Francisco." Jonathon bubbled through the phone and Roman could hear the smile he knew the Captain was wearing.
     
    "Well, if you're coming over here, please stay with me, I have tons of room in my house, and you're more than welcome to be my guest. I'd love to have you." Roman was glad to think of his old friend coming to the city.
     
    Jonathon paused. "You still married to that woman?"
    Roman blinked. "Denise? Yes." Jonathon had met her twice, and both times she had treated him like a barnacle on the bottom of a boat.
     
    "Oh, well, uh.... I think I'll stay on the yacht. Thanks though, but it's a real dandy of a boat and I wouldn't want to trouble you at home." Jonathon stumbled through a declination.
     
    Roman chuckled a little. "Maybe I'll come stay on the boat with you while you're here."
     
    Jonathon let loose a long belly laugh, and said, "Son, you'd be welcome to. You come anytime you like, yes sir, you come alone any time you feel like it."
     
    It was Roman's turn to let out a good laugh and he shook his head. "Alright, well, you let me know when you'll be here."
     
    "I should arrive a week from Wednesday," Jonathon answered.
     
    "Very good, I'll have a berth ready for you at my marina. It'll be good to see you again, Captain." Roman laughed again and hung up the phone.
     
    He pressed the intercom. "Janine?"
     
    She answered him back, "Yes?"
     
    "Would you please make sure there's a berth ready at the marina for Captain Heatherwick when he arrives next Wednesday?" 
     
    "I already did it. I'm way ahead of you." She laughed at him and he smiled and shook his head.
     
    "That's why you're working here, Janine. I couldn't run such a tight ship without you."
     
    Roman hung up and his thoughts tried to take him to that dream weekend a year ago, but he shook his head and pushed the thoughts from his mind. He never allowed himself the freedom to really think about her or what happened between them, he just pushed it to a corner of his mind and told himself that it was a beautiful dream he'd had.
     
    Denise was still as she had been with him, and except for the weekend with Cami, he had not had a woman in his bed, any woman, in four years. He took a deep breath and sighed, letting it out and letting it go, and then he went back to work.
     
    A short time later, Allen came rushing into his office from down the hall. "I've got great news!" he said happily, sitting at Roman's desk.
     
    Roman looked up from his computer. "Yeah? What's that?" he asked with high hopes.
     
    Allen leaned forward in his chair. "Well, I just got off the phone with the Senator-"
     
    Janine buzzed in and said with a disapproving tone, "'The Wife' is here."
     
    Roman looked from Allen who seemed as though he might burst, to his telephone. "Well, I'm in a meeting, she'll have to-"
     
    "I'd be glad to stop her for you, Mistah Bruce, but you have to promise me that you won't have me arrested if I do," Janine said loudly over the intercom.
     
    The door of his office was flung open for the second time in about three minutes and a tall, leggy redhead with an extremely voluptuous and expensive body, sashayed through the door.
     
    "I do not have to wait. I never