The Billionaire's Twin Fever (MANHATTAN BACHELORS Book 1)
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She was happy and blissful, while simultaneously sad that he was gone. She wished that he could have stayed and loved her more, loved her longer, and never let her go from his arms.
Her morning was not filled with bliss for long. She was walking down the hallway when she saw Cara coming out of his bedroom, and the other woman waved at her and came to talk to her. She paused and waited, wishing that Cara didn’t need to be in Henry’s bedroom and wondering just what it was that a private secretary needed to be in her boss’ bedroom for.
Cara reached her and touched her shoulder. “Good morning my dear. I’m glad to see you. We really need to talk. I think that there are some things that we need to go over, and it’s important that we talk about it now. I think I’ve let things go on too long with you and Henry.”
Jamaica blinked in surprise. “What do you mean? What are you talking about?” Her heart skipped a few beats and she began to feel an unease in her stomach.
“Well, I know that he can be flirtatious sometimes, and you shouldn’t take that to heart. He is just that kind of man and it’s in his nature to flirt, but it’s innocent flirtation and it doesn’t mean that he wants anything to happen because of it,” she began, looking at Jamaica as if she was doing her a kindness by telling her the truth.
Jamaica’s blood began to rush in her ears. “What are you saying to me? What is this?” she asked in a whisper, knowing deep down in her that she didn’t really want to know at all.
“Oh well, it’s just that I know he can be a flirt and I don’t want you to take that seriously. You see, you were just here to have the babies for us, and now that they are well under way, your job here is done. You see, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Henry and I are lovers. We’ve been having a secret affair for years, and the babies were for us. I know that you might think that he likes you, but really he’s just playing a game with you because you’re handy and you’re here, and he knows that he can play you and have a little fun before he and I get married, but I thought that you should know the truth.
“In fact, he just asked me this morning, after we just had our little morning tryst in his bedroom, if I wouldn’t mind getting you out of here while he’s out of town. He feels bad about letting you go and asking you to leave the house and the babies, and he just doesn’t handle guilt well, so he asked me to take care of it, and now I’m stuck with the thankless task. But in any event, I thought that I would let you know that he does want you gone from her before he gets back from the business trip. As a matter of fact, he did say that the sooner you were gone the better. That made me kind of wonder if he has gotten what he wanted from you. What did you let him do, have an orgasm? Yeah, he’s done with you now. He left this morning and was pleading with me to have you gone as soon as we could.” Cara looked at Jamaica with veiled sympathy. None of it felt genuine to Jamaica.
“That can’t be…” she stammered, trying to wrap her head around what Cara was telling her.
“Oh, I promise you honey, it can be. Why do you think that I chose you as the mother of the babies? It was because you’re black, and he would never fall for a black girl, he’d never fall for anyone like you. Did he tell you this morning that he wanted to talk with you when he got back?” she asked, peering at Jamaica closely.
“Yes…” Jamaica was barely able to answer.
“Well, that’s the talk. That’s the ‘goodbye, please leave’ talk. Now, you can stick around here if you want to, and he will come home and have that talk to your face, or you can pack up quietly while he’s gone and save yourself a little dignity, and already be gone when he gets back. It’s your choice. Personally, I’d go while he’s gone, just to make it easier on myself.” She gave Jamaica a little thin smile and crossed her arms over her chest.
Jamaica felt her throat tighten and she could hardly breathe. “My god…” she began, and Cara just nodded with pseudo sympathy. “I… I don’t know what to say!”
“You say goodbye, and you pack up your things and go. In fact, here I have this check for you for the full amount of the job. Five hundred thousand dollars. You’ll see that he signed it. So, take the money and go while he’s gone, and get it all over with as easily as you can. And Jamaica, thank you for what you’ve done for me and him; we are grateful.” Cara gave her a wink and a grin, and Jamaica felt as if her whole world had just ended.
***
It didn’t take her too long to get packed and leave the Ellison home. She was back at her own house within a day. She was quiet about it, and went into Georgia’s room to say goodbye to her, but found that she was out at the hospital having a chemo treatment. She realized that it was probably best just to go without too much fuss.
The most difficult goodbye was leaving Casey and Beth, who were named after the babies in her dreams. They were happy to see her, and she knew that they were much too young to understand the heartfelt goodbye that she gave them, but she spoke it anyway, and then she took the last of her things and left.
Her own home felt empty and abandoned. There was still a great deal of herself in it; her furniture and many of her possessions, but there wasn’t the same feeling of home that there used to be before she had lived at the Ellison’s. That was gone.
The days slowly went by and she didn’t hear from Henry at all, and with each silent empty day that passed, she began to realize that Cara had spoken nothing but the truth to her, and that there was no way back to where she had once believed that she was.
She tried to focus on her work at the school, but it was all that she had left, and she felt as if something had died inside of her, and her life would never be the same again.
At the end of the week she was sitting in her classroom looking at artwork that the students had turned in for a project when she heard the door open and close, and she looked up, expecting to see Penny standing there, asking her to go out for cocktails.
It wasn’t Penny, it was Henry. He looked haggard and tired, as if he had not slept in days and had cried so much that his eyes were swollen.
She stood up slowly from her chair and walked over to him. “Henry! What on earth are you doing here?” she asked, going to him and stopping just in front of him.
“I’m here to find out why you left. I can’t stop thinking about it. Cara said that you just packed everything up and walked out. You left the babies, you left my mother, you left me… you just… walked out on all of us. That’s a horrible thing to do, Jamaica. It doesn’t sound like you at all. What on earth did you do that for? I need an answer!” he pleaded.
She felt a fire begin to burn deep in her. “She told you that I just left? Well, she told me that I had to leave because you and she have been having an affair for years and I was only brought in to have the babies for the two of you, and then you were just using me for a quick fling, and you were going to kick me out when you got back from your business trip!”
His mouth fell open in shock. “What? That’s not it at all! We aren’t having an affair! Nothing of the kind has ever happened between us!” He went straight to Jamaica and reached for her hand. “You have to believe me!”
She stared at him and began to realize that everything Cara had told her was a lie. She went through every situation that she had had with Cara, and for each one, they both talked it out and discovered that there was a fallacy at the heart of it.
By the time the talk was over, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her hard. “Jamaica, I love you. I love you more than I have ever loved any woman in my life, and I want you to come home. You have a family who needs you. Come home and be a daughter and a mother… and… and be my wife. Please… come home to me. I love you and I want you there forever. Cara is gone either way, but I can’t lose you. Please… come home to us all.”
Jamaica felt tears spring to her eyes as they always seemed to do. “I would love to marry you, Henry. And I would love to come home to you and be your wife. Forever.”
He grinned then and kissed her once more, and she knew that not
hing was ever going to come between them again.
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