Page 45 of Second Chances with my Billionaire Bosses

“I said I was going togiveyou a baby! I’m sure I told you the rest of my plan! I’m going to be a surrogate!” She tugged at her hair and growled. “How did you not hear that?!”

Anger flared hot in me.

“What the fuck did you just say?”

Maxie spun around to face me.

“Tell Shep you heard me say I’d be your surrogate last night!”

“The fuck you did! You came over, said you were going to have our babies, and then passed out drunk. You told us you were going to have our babies! What the fuck are you talking about surrogacy for?” I glared at her as I moved closer. “This had better be some stupid joke.”

She threw her hands up.

“I meant surrogacy! I told you last night that I can’t be a mother. What did you think happened when I went to my hotel room? Did you think I suddenly forgot all the horrible lessons my mom taught me?”

“So, explain this plan to us. The one you didn’t explain last night.” Rhett’s voice was deceptively calm. “Please clue us in.”

She looked at him and proved how well she already knew us when she took a nervous step back.

“I figured we’d do…this…and I’d get pregnant. And then I thought we’d keep doing…this…until the baby was born. And then…”

“And then what?” He stepped closer.

“And then I thought I would give you the baby and I’d leave…” I watched her throat bob as she swallowed. “I thought it would give us both what we wanted.”

“You’d be okay with carrying our baby while fucking us and living with us for the next nine months and then just handing off that little girl or boy?” I knew her better than that. Her heart was too big for that ever to work out. “Get real, Maxine.”

She crossed her arms and pouted.

“It sounded really good in my head last night. I want you three and you three want a family. I can give you that.”

“We wantyou!” Rhett closed the distance between them and grabbed her shoulders. “Kids, dogs, and fucking pancakes every Sunday morning sound amazing but it’s nothing without you, Maxine. Don’t you get that?”

Her bottom lip quivered.

“You don’t understand.”

“I understand that you’re scared. That’s no excuse for making a plan to leave us in nine months. If you think your plan works for us, you’re wrong. You don’t get to leave us.” Shep shoved his feet into his boots. “You try to walk away from us in nine months and we’ll follow you, baby. Whether you knew it or not, you made a commitment to us this morning. You’re ours. We’re yours. Get used to it because it’s not changing.”

“What? You can’t just make that statement. My plan is flawed but I’m not cut out to be a mother. If y’all can’t agree to my plan then we can’t sleep together. It’s not too late. The chances of me getting pregnant after—”

“After the way you took our come this morning? You’re definitely knocked up already. So this?” Rhett gestured back and forth between them. “It’s a done deal, baby.”

Shep nodded. “As far as I’m concerned, nothing has changed. You’re ours, sweetheart. And as much as I’m fucking overjoyed to have you, I need to get some air and space from you becausethe idea that you could walk away from our kid andusis making me want to break shit.”

“I’m serious! You can’t just tell me that I’m going to stick around with you. I just won’t sleep with y’all again. We’ll go back to a working relationship only. It’s fine.”

I pinned her with a hard stare.

“We all saw the way you came alive in our arms this morning, sweetheart. You don’t want to stay away from us.”

She followed after us as we went downstairs.

“You have to accept my choice. This isn’t something you can just argue against. It’s not up for debate.”

I spun around and grabbed her face, slamming my mouth down on hers. Kissing her until I had to pull away to avoid dragging her back upstairs and fucking her made my head spin. I turned and left the house before I could say or do anything I’d regret. With no clue where I was headed, I just stomped down the steps and out toward the pastures.

Shep and Rhett were ahead of me, waiting for me to join them. Rhett gestured to the house with an angry slash of his hand.

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