His baby

Chapter 15

Katie's POV

I look up when I hear a knock at my office door. And almost immediately was followed by the door opening, and Hunter peaking his head instead my office. "Hunter? What are you doing here?" I ask as he walks into my office fully. He smiles and I notice the brown bag in his hand.

"I know you said you were gonna eat out, but I cooked and decided to bring you a proper meal." He replies and places the bag in front of me. I smile at him taking the paper bag into my hands. "You didn't have to do that." I gush out sincerely. He shakes his at me. "I couldn't have you waiting hours to eat with the baby and everything." He responds and I nod.

I open up the bag excited to see what he cooked. I pull out a white bowl with a blue lid over it. The bowl was still hot, meaning he had just made it before coming here. I sit the bowl in front of me before I look into the bag, and pulled out a pack of crackers and a spoon.

I placed them beside the bowl, and carefully pulled off the lid to the bowl. Immediately steam erupted into my face along with delicious aroma of many flavors. "Soup." I smiled up at Hunter and he chuckled.

"Yeah, I remember you mentioning you had an upset stomach this morning. So I made you some chicken soup. Hopefully it helps." He replies and for some reason that warmed my heart. I know it's because of the baby I'm carrying, but it's nice to think that he cares about me. "Well, thank you so much."

"You're welcome." He smiles. I noticed he was still standing and I could tell he was wanted to talk to me about something. "Please, sit down." I insist and gesture for him to sit in one of the chairs in front of my desk. Hunter does as I insist and takes a seat. "So, I can see you wanna talk about something. What's up?" I asked opening the pack of crackers.

I hear him clear his throat before it's followed by his deep voice, "I know you said no to the marriage before but-" he starts and I roll my eyes knowing what he was getting at.

"-I thought we already talked about this." I say in a dismissive tone and Hunter scoffs. "Don't do that, just please hear me out." He says sounding as if he was getting a little annoyed himself. "It isn't going to change my mind, but ok waste your breath." I remark and Hunter huffs.

"Katie this is serious-"

"-Am I'm serious! Hunter, I do not want to marry you. Especially, just because I'm having your baby. I already moved in with you, isn't that enough?!" I asked feeling myself getting a little worked up. I already conceived a child due to loveless sex, and I was going to be in a loveless marriage. I do not love Hunter nor do I want to marry him. I'm having his baby... but that's it.

"Getting married is the best option for us. Well have shared custody over our baby, no need to court battles, we can live together, and plus it's a win-win for both of us. For you as owner of your boutique and me as CEO-"

I scoff in disbelief, "-Are you serious! I knew along that this was just for your dumb image. You don't care about marrying me for the baby! You just want to protect your reputation, and I for one have something called self-respect. So I'm not going to marry you."

I knew I was right about that, and I couldn't believe that all he could think about right now was his reputation. How could someone be so devoted to a job that they're willing to simply arrange a marriage for that job.

Getting married sacred, it's where you promise and forever vow your love and devotion towards one person. It's where you share so much love for someone that you only want to be with them... forever. Marriage is not something that can just be thrown around.

"No, that's not the only reason why. I want to-"

I cut Hunter off once again, "-I've made up my mind. I'm not marrying you. I'll live with you until I'm not... and that's all I can tell you." I deadpan wanting to end the conversation. Hunter sighs deeply. "Fine, but I'm going public with the pregnancy in three days. You're gonna have to be there, so brace yourself."

"What do you mean public with the pregnancy?" I ask and he raises his eyebrow at me. "Exactly how it sounds." He responds being a smart ass and I roll my eyes. I didn't ask for all the attitude, and I certainly didn't appreciate it.  "Well make it sound better, because I don't know what you mean." I retort back.

"I'm going to be telling the media you're pregnant." He states and I look at him fully processing what he was saying. He was telling his multi-billionaire dollar company's media that I was pregnant. He was going to put me in the spotlight, put me in the world of paparazzi, reporters, trolls, and everything else that comes with being in the public's eye. "No." I deadpan and Hunter scoffs.

"You don't really get a choice. I'm not asking, I'm telling." He responds and I clear my throat before looking him directly in his eyes. "And I'm telling you no. I don't want to be everybody's center of attention, and I'm definitely not trying to lose my privacy."

Hunter roll his eyes, "And you think I do!" He exclaims. "-I don't want to lose my privacy any more than you do. But, people have questions! And I am the CEO... the face of this company! So, I have to answer them! And if I don't my bosses will, and what they say we can't control. We do this, and we can pick & choose what we want people knowing. We can get in front of the press." He tries to convince me. However, I know just be the tone in his voice, it doesn't matter what I say. He's going to go public with MY pregnancy.

"Like you said, I don't really have a voice. I know what I say doesn't really matter to you anyways." I comment and Hunter sighs.

"I know you don't want to do this, but Thank you anyways. It means a lot to me." He replies and I simply hum a response as I look back down at my soup. He was very right when he said, I don't want to do this, because I really don't. I feel like I'm opening up my life and unborn to strangers. Strangers who believe they are entitled to have an opinion in my live, and they don't.

"Was that all?-" I asked Hunter looking back up at him. "-Because I still have a lot of work to do?" I finish off and Hunter clears his throat and looks a little taken back.

"No, umm... that was all. I'll see you home later?" He asked and I simply nod. "Ok." I hear him say before he starts making his way out of my office. Once he's gone, I feel a wave of relief fall over me. I threw my head back and my body followed, melting back into my seat.

I sigh deeply blowing out the air I held in my chest. Ughhh, if this headache I have right now isn't going to be the death of me, then Hunter Hameln definitely will be.
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