Page 125 of Playing For Keeps
I’m out of the condo and jogging down the hallway a second later. Jami wouldn’t do something like cheat on me.
Would he?
Maybe I’m not giving him everything he wants. Maybe I’m not enough for him. Melanie even said he wanted a baby with me, and I haven’t even discussed the topic with him since we moved.
Fuck.
Am I losing him?
My mind swirls and races with all the possibilities of who this special someone is Jami’s meeting with. My blood pumps hard as I drive as fast as I can to his office.
I can barely see straight by the time I get there. I park my car and fling the front door open.
His new assistant stands as soon as I'm near her desk. “Hi, Dori. Jamison’s with someone right now. Let me?—”
I brush by her. “I’ll see myself in.”
The door to his office is cracked. His gentle, loving voice floats into my ears. It’s the same tone he uses with me when he’s expressing how much I mean to him.
My heart pounds wildly in my chest. He wouldn’t do this to me.
“You’re precious. And so beautiful,” he coos from behind the door.
A woman giggles, and my world stops.
He’s in there with someone special. There’s no denying it now.
CHAPTER 29
JAMISON
The doorto my office bangs open. Dori steps in with a wild look of shock and betrayal seeping into her eyes.
I shrink into myself.
Shit.
I didn’t want her to find me like this.
Ever.
“Would you care to explain what’s going on?” Her tempered gaze slides from me to the woman standing in my office.
What Dori’s witnessing has got to be killing her. Her pained expression screams at me for being so stupid.
My insides wrench. I didn’t think Dori would come here, so I figured this would be the perfect place to meet this beautiful girl in my arms.
“Um… Dori, this is Avery.” I take another longing peek at the girl I’m holding. I raise my arm to give Dori a better look, knowing I can’t hide what I’m feeling right now. “Isn’t she perfect?”
Dori glances around and sees Danny, my new chief of operations, standing next to his wife, Tera. She’s staring at Dori like she doesn’t know what to do.
My heart aches. Dori seeing a newborn in my arms has to be gut-wrenching. I never meant to hurt her this way.
Trying to soften the blow, I lift the baby to give her back to her mother. Tera reaches for her, but Dori interjects.
“Can I hold her?” She reaches out her arms as she ambles into the room.
Tera nods at me to give Avery to Dori. “Of course. Jamison has been fussing over her long enough.”
