The Russian Billionaire’s Secret(46)

“Keep the change.” He said as he moved along to wait for his drink.

“She had a doctor’s appointment, but she’ll be back in a few days.” Katie tried her best to be discrete as she divulged Tami’s whereabouts.

“Oh, I do hope everything is okay.” Katie nodded.

“I’m sure it will be,” she said as she turned to the next customer.

Albie went straight to his office from the coffeehouse. Instead of focusing on the spreadsheets like he should have been doing, however, he focused on trying to track down Tami’s last name so that he could send her some flowers. He wondered perhaps, if it wasn’t a little stalker-esque, but when his receptionist offered that she thought it was a lovely idea, he went with it. It took a good part of three hours to track down both Tami’s last name and where she lived, but with the resources at his fingertips he managed it.

Unsure of which flowers to choose, he picked a few different bouquets and had them all sent to Tami’s apartment for same day delivery.

There was something about Tami and Albie couldn’t quite put his finger on it. She was certainly miles apart from any girl that he had ever dated. She was, in fact, the anti-Albie type of girl – someone who could stand on her own two feet, someone who knew her own worth and someone who didn’t seem fazed by his net worth.

Of course, he couldn’t guarantee that she knew anything about his net worth but then again there weren’t many people in Littleford that didn’t know about the city’s most eligible bachelor.

As he sat at his desk and stared out of his panoramic window on to the city below, Albie found himself wondering about his future. About the possibility of his having a future with someone a little more like Tami and a little less like…well, everyone else. The more he thought about it, the more he pondered the things that Tami could give him that his life had –up until now – been without.

There was the certain possibility of a child, something his father had been nagging him about for the past decade. ‘A Johnson man needs an heir to pass his fortune to,’ his dad would say. So important was an heir to Mr. Johnson II that before he agreed to finance his son’s business he required him to make a deposit at the local sperm bank.

‘No business funded by my money is going to fall in to any hands other than the Johnson’s’ he had said. And Albie, as much as he had needed his father’s funding, had agreed to the rather bizarre request.

But with Tami in the picture, or at least on the horizon, Albie could see a real possibility for a future Albert P. Johnson IV.

Chapter 4

A Mix Up

Tami sat amid six bouquets of beautiful flowers, completely flabbergasted. She had absolutely no idea who they were from as none of the bouquets had included cards, but she could only imagine that they were from her friends at work. The perfume from the flowers was incredible and the variety of colors simply amazing. She liked the daisies the most, she had always been a fan of the daisy – a simple but beautiful flower.

“Katie?” There was a pause on the end of the phone while Katie finished up with a customer.

“Hey girl! How are you feeling?” Katie had been the first to know about Tami’s appointment and she had even offered to go along if Tami needed the company. Tami had refused however, feeling that it was more of a solo type of appointment.

“Good…well nervous as all get out, to be honest.”

“Thank you, have a nice day!” Katie’s voice was muffled before she came back on the line. “I don’t blame you. When will you know?”

“She said two weeks, but I want to take a test already just to see. Do you think it’s too early?” Katie laughed.

“I think maybe just a bit.” Tami knew that it was, but needed to hear it from someone else.

“Yeah, I thought so. Oh, hey, thanks for the flowers but jeez you guys went way overboard!” Tami leaned over and smelled one of the carnations.

“Huh?” Katie was utterly confused.

“The flowers, I had like six bouquets show up. I figured they were from you guys since no one else really knows…” Katie went silent.

“Ah…”

“Katie! Oh my God who did you tell?” Tami could feel a sense of panic rising. She didn’t mind Katie and the girls at work knowing what she was doing but the idea that anyone else could know made her worry that she’d jinx her possibility of pregnancy.

“I didn’t really tell anyone. I just…well, Albie came in this morning for his coffee and he asked where you were. So I told him you had a doctor’s appointment and…” Tami interrupted.

“Wait, you seriously told one of our customers that I had a doctor’s appointment?” Tami should have been angry, but instead she found the fact that Albie had asked after her sweet.

“Yeah, I figured you wouldn’t mind since it was him…but now I’m guessing you do?” Tami couldn’t help but laugh.

“Don’t worry about it. I guess if there’s one guy you don’t mind knowing you’re under the weather, it’s the guy who can afford to send you six bouquets of flowers.” Tami couldn’t wipe the smile from her face as she stared at the bright white daisies.

“Are you sure? I’m really sorry. I didn’t think, I just…” Katie didn’t know why she had told Albie anything, but she put it down to her wanting Albie to finally get involved with Tami’s life. Still, she hadn’t expected him to do anything like this.