He Wasn’t Supposed To Have Kids, Then I Got Pregnant Chapter 01

He Wasn’t Supposed To Have Kids, Then I Got Pregnant Chapter 01

I spent one wild night with Don Lucian Orsini.

When I found out I was pregnant, I packed my suitcase and prepared to flee New York. But the moment I opened the door, lines of reader comments that only I could see appeared before my eyes.

[Livia dies soon after leaving New York.]

[Is she out of her mind? She’s carrying the only child Lucian may ever have, and she still thinks she can run from the Orsinis?]

[Lucian’s fertility was severely compromised after his car accident. The child Livia is carrying is the heir the entire Orsini family has been waiting for.]

[After Livia dies, Audrey West takes in her child. She marries into the Orsini family and becomes its Donna, one of the most powerful women in New York’s underworld.]

I stopped dead in my tracks.

Thirty seconds later, I kicked my suitcase back into the walk-in closet, grabbed the report confirming my pregnancy, and raced to the top floor of Orsini Group headquarters.Lucian was in the middle of a meeting.

I shoved open the conference room doors, marched inside, and slapped the report down in front of him.

“Lucian, I’m pregnant.”

“It’s yours.”

***

The entire room went so quiet that I could’ve heard a pin drop.

Dozens of people turned to stare at me.

Lucian sat at the head of the table in a black suit, his dark brown hair neatly styled and his icy blue eyes utterly unreadable. He had the kind of face that looked as though God had carved it by hand, but everyone in New York’s underworld knew the rumors about him.

They said the man behind that perfect face had the soul of a devil.

Three years ago, a car accident had nearly killed him. Although he survived, the doctors at the Orsini family’s private hospital had delivered devastating news.

His chances of fathering a child had been severely reduced.

The Orsini family was already divided by internal power struggles.

Several branches were fighting for control, so the family’s inner circle had kept Lucian’s condition a closely guarded secret to prevent further unrest.

His mother, Marlowe Orsini, was currently the most powerful woman in the family. She had summoned every specialist she could find and had even arranged for escorts to visit him in secret.

Lucian had turned every one of them away without a trace of warmth.So when I dropped proof of my pregnancy in front of him, the looks around the table were more entertaining than the Super Bowl halftime show.Lucian picked up the report and studied it for two seconds.

“Miss Serrano, please leave.”

For a second, I had no idea how to respond.”You don’t believe me?”

He raised his eyes to mine, and there wasn’t a trace of warmth in them.

“What do you want?”

The question hit harder than a slap.

I was Livia Serrano, the pampered princess of the Serrano family who had always done whatever she pleased. I couldn’t deny that I had caused more than my share of trouble.

For example, I had spent ten years chasing Ryan, the Serrano family’s underboss.

He had ignored me for all ten of them.

Then one night, I drank too much at a bar and woke up in bed beside Lucian.

I had cursed him out and hit him the moment I woke up.

Lucian hadn’t tried to explain anything. He had simply draped his coat over my shoulders and ordered his driver to take me home.

One month later, I learned I was pregnant.

My first instinct had been to get out of New York as quickly as possible.

If my parents saw that report, they would lock me away on some remote island until I gave birth, then dress me up and offer me to another family as part of a marriage alliance.

But according to those strange comments, I would die not long after leaving New York.Audrey would end up raising my child.Audrey was the real heroine of this story. She and Lucian were supposed to have a sweeping romance, while I was nothing more than the tragic opening paragraph that set their love story in motion.

More comments floated into view.

[Cry, Livia! Cry harder. Really sell it. Lucian responds better to tears than attitude!]

[Don’t back down. You’re the only woman who’s ever carried his child.]

[Audrey already has Marlowe’s approval. Wait any longer, and you’ll lose both your husband and your child!]

I dug my nails into my palm until tears pricked my eyes.”Lucian, are you really going to pretend that night never happened?”

Someone in the conference room sucked in a sharp breath.

The corner of Lucian’s eye twitched, as though he were suppressing a reaction.I walked around the table, stopped beside him, and pressed his hand against my lower abdomen.

“You don’t have to believe me yet, but you do have to protect me.”

His fingers went rigid beneath mine.

I held his gaze, my pulse pounding so hard it hurt.

He studied my face for a long moment before speaking.

“Meeting adjourned.”

Everyone immediately lowered their heads and filed out of the room.

Once the doors closed behind them, Lucian pulled his hand away, took out his phone, and called his consigliere.

“Send a doctor up.”

I had barely begun to relax when the conference room doors suddenly opened again.

A woman in a white dress stood in the doorway, carrying an insulated food carrier.”Lucian, did I come at a bad time?”

The comments exploded.

[Audrey’s here!]