Page 59 of The Billionaire Alpha Surrogate

“It’s my life to ruin,” Micah said. “Did you threaten her?”

“She can take what I said however she wants to,” Gavin said with a sneer.

“Hear me well, old man. If you go near Lucy again, I will destroy you. Lucy is a part of my life and is going to stay a part of my life. The baby is mine. Get that through your thick skull.”

“Or what? You’ll cut me off? You won’t pay my bills anymore?” Gavin laughed and said, “That’s a joke and you know it. You would never hurt your mother.”

“You think you have everything figured out, don’t you?” Micah’s voice dropped to the point where Gavin could barely hear him. “Let me make it clear. I won’t stop paying the bills, because, as you say, I would never hurt Mom. What I will do is find you alone. I will shred you into little tiny pieces and scatter your miserable carcass all over the mountain.”

“You can’t talk to me like that,” Gavin said, his voice shaking just a little.

Micah smiled evilly. “I can and I did. Believe me, it is no idle threat. Stay out of my life.”

Gavin just stared at him, disbelievingly. Micah had never stood up to him like that before.

Rose was standing by the patio door, her eyes wide and her mouth open. She had never seen Micah so enraged before. They walked into the house together.

“Mom, you need to walk away from him. Divorce his miserable ass. I’ll set you up at the mansion or a nice house of your own, and he can rot in hell.”

Rose didn’t say anything. He didn’t know if she was afraid of leaving Gavin or if he had just become a bad habit.

“He’s evil,” Micah said. “He’s going to end up hurting you or Lucy somehow, and then I will have to kill him. If you come to the mansion with us, you can help out with the babies.”

“Babies?” Rose asked.

“Babies. We’re having twins. The doctor said they are healthy.”

“I’m so excited,” Rose said. “I’ll think about it. I promise.”

Micah knew that she wasn’t going to leave. Heaving a heavy sigh, he kissed his mom’s cheek and headed home.

Dinner was being put on the table as he walked in.

“We weren’t going to wait,” Lucy said. “Three of us are starving.”

“The other three of us are hungry, too,” Ronnie said.

He looked around the room at his family and felt the tension leave his shoulders. Micah wasn’t sure that either Caroline or his father was going to take his warnings seriously and leave Lucy alone. He decided that he would talk to Zac about the situation when he had a chance. Right now, though, he was going to enjoy his night.

Lucy joined him in bed again. She was tired, so they just snuggled. He breathed in her scent. It was like a drug that made him feel as though all was right in the world.

We’re going to have to talk, soon. I think she tried twice. She needs to know that I have deep feelings for her.

Micah knew that he loved her, but wasn’t ready to say that he was “in love.” He was taking baby steps in that direction, though.

Martha was waiting for him the next morning.

“What does my day look like?” he asked.

“You have a report to look at. One of the properties Ginger was looking at tested positive for super high levels of nickel and arsenic,” Martha said.

“Ugh. Ginger’s not going to be happy about that.”

“She has plenty of others,” Martha said.

An hour later, she knocked on his door. “I’m sorry to bother you, but a man named Leo is here to see you. He doesn’t have an appointment, but he says that it’s urgent.”

Micah rubbed his forehead.

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