The Billionaire's Baby Mama

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Marina’s POV

I went for a walk and somehow found my way to the river not far from the hotel. I had been there for majority of the day just sitting there looking out over the river, just thinking. I sat on the bridge swinging my legs back and forth until a bunch of men surrounded me. “Don’t move!”

I was in shock and startled. I didn’t understand why they were doing this. They crowded around me blocking me from leaving the normal way. I stood up on the bridge and threatened them. My voice was loud and I would say it was strong and resolute but it most likely was shrill and terrified. “If you don’t back off, I’ll jump. You heard me. I’ll jump!” Obviously, I know how to swim so of course I wouldn’t drown or let myself drown even if I was feeling like s**t.

They wouldn’t back off me. It looked as if every single one of them stood there like statues. So, I had no choice. I was going to jump in the water and pretend to drown then secretly swim ashore. I jumped in the water ready to make my move but I heard another splashing sound a few seconds after I entered the water. I wasn’t sure if one of them jumped in after me or not. My eyes were closed when the arms of a big strong man encircled me. That confirmed my suspicions, one of them dove in right after me thinking I couldn’t swim. This guy, he pulled me to the surface and swam us both to shore. I thought I would be dead weight to him because of how useless I made my body but he had not problems carrying me. It reminded me how weak Charles truly was whenever I would ask him to give me a piggyback ride.

When I opened my eyes, the man from this morning was staring at me. Why was he staring at me? A better question was why did he jump in the water after me? He must have thought to be a good Samaritan. I laid there with my now limp curly hair sticking to my face and my clothes clinging to my body. “Hey are you ok? Can you speak?”

If I had swallowed water when I jumped in, I would have for sure spit it up. He looked as if he wanted to scold me after asking if I was ok. I don’t understand why. I left him the money to pay for the extra time spent in the room past check out time. He started to say something else and stopped then instead said something totally ridiculous. Like only an insane person would say this. His voice was as smooth as honey I almost melted into the dirt. “Marry me and have my child. Then I’ll forgive you for paying me like some high-end male escort.” I liked the way his voice spoke until I realized what he actually said.

“What?” I know for a fact I didn’t treat him like an escort. I tried to scramble away from him up the slight incline. “I didn’t treat you like that. That was for staying later than check out time.” I pushed my wet hair out of my face. “Are these your men? Are you a mob boss?”

He answered me as if he didn’t hear a word I had said. “If you marry me and have my child, I’ll make sure you can live comfortable.”

“No! I don’t want to marry some stranger who maybe a mobster and have a child. I want to fall in love and have a fairy tale wedding and a whirlwind romance. What you’re asking for is a contract Marriage. I won’t bring myself to do something that ridiculous. And in case you haven’t heard, I don’t know if I babbled while I was drunk that was my first time getting drunk to be honest but I found my fiancé and my sister having s*x on my wedding day. My wedding day do you hear me? Why the hell would I want to get married to someone I don’t even know. Especially after having my heart ripped from my chest by the two most important people in my life. Who by the way have now gotten married! You’re crazy.” I managed to stand up and run away. Tears threaten to fall from my eyes remembering that scene. I thought I wouldn’t stop or look back.

I heard him call out to me which made me stop, despite myself, long enough to hear what he had to say. “You marry me I’ll give you the means to make Charles jealous beyond your wildest dreams. Whatever it is you want I will make sure you have it to bring him to his knees and crush him.” I didn’t turn around just kept running. I ran until my legs got tired and then I walked sluggishly somewhere. I don’t know where I was going but I needed to go. My mind was anywhere but the present. I just ran so much before I couldn’t run anymore. So, if an even crazier person wanted to abduct me, I wouldn’t have any fight in me to get away. I thought about what would possess Charles to ask me to marry him when he wanted Teresa. It didn’t make sense. Teresa loves me but thinking about how she was moaning from his touch showed she was an extremely willing participant. It was illogical and just plain mean of them both to toy with my heart and my feelings this way.

I got to a bus stop and waited until it came. I walked up the three steps to get on the bus; I knew my car wasn’t at the hotel anymore. They would have driven it home or somewhere. I thought maybe I could go home to my parents and maybe have them comfort me. Well, I had hoped they would comfort me. I did go through something traumatic but knowing them they would be fawning over Teresa. I thought that was why when we we’re younger Teresa would spoil me so much. The bus took me as far as it could. I still had a bit of a walk before I got home. I had my arms folded across my chest, finally thinking about what that stranger had told me. “I could live a comfortable life if I just marry him and have his baby. He must be living in a fantasy world. Things like that don’t just happen. This isn’t a soap opera or a K-drama. It’s real life. Aw man, but I should have gotten his name though. He was very cute. Way better looking than Charles. That stupid man would look like an oaf next to him.”

I was just about to walk up to the door when I peaked in the window. I see Teresa and Charles sitting there holding hands like they were the most lovingness couple in the world. They were snuggling together as if my pain never even happened. As if, his time with me was meaningless or nonexistent. I wanted to burst in the door and pull her by her hair, yell at the two of them, and kick them both out. I was just about to do that when I saw my parents come into the front room. They had such happy smiles on their faces. They sat on opposite ends of the newlyweds. It looked like a happy moment for them. I realized then that I wasn’t needed there or wanted.

I didn’t notice it until it was too late but I was crying again. My hands were balled into fists at my sides. I always wondered if my family truly wanted me or if I was just the child they had to keep. I made up my mind that day. They wouldn’t hear from me ever again. It’s not like they would care anyway, I was just the forgotten daughter. Just as I was turning to leave that strangers voice echoed in my head. “Marry me, I’ll give you the means to make Charles Jealous.”

I needed to know what he meant by that. I wanted to know so many answers to questions popping in my head. How did he know Charles? I was sure I didn’t say anything about my pain that night we did that. If I had, he wouldn’t have been so willingly to propose marriage to me. No, not just marriage but having his child. I would basically be his baby’s mama. Nothing more than that. Me raising a child in a loveless home. That would go over so well. Whatever I wanted to get revenge on those two. They all would regret the day they treated me like a second-class citizen.

I nodded my head with determination. That’s right I, Marina Louise Saint James, will make them all beg for my forgiveness. I walked down the driveway only to have a sleek black Tesla to pull up alongside the road. I for sure didn’t know who they were but I wasn’t going to take any chances of running into any family members. I started to walk in the opposite direction the car was facing. I heard the car door open and shut. That person must have been for them at that house. Footsteps I thought were heading towards the house were oddly following behind me. When I stopped so did, they. I turned around to see it was that stranger that I slept with and pulled me from the water. “Are you a stalker?”

He answered me with a chuckle, I thought it was strange. “No, I’m Beau. Beau Jackson and I need you to be my wife and mother of my child.”

I just stood there gawking at him. He was a persistent one I give him that. Completely off his rocker that one but persistent.