Saving Her Billionaire

Chapter 13

Nate was pondering the situation that he was in over a glass of whiskey. He was resting his head on his closed fist and musing about the situation his life was in.

He was starting to realize that the path his life was on was not the path of his own choosing. He had always known this, of course. He had always known that what he was being prepped for was something that everyone else wanted from him, not something that he wanted for himself. However, he was only just starting to realize the implications of this.

Nate took a sip of whiskey and thought about the two possible paths his life could take right now. He thought about how he could choose to run the company and become the person that his family had always wanted him to be. It was a fair option. He would have money, power and the respect of the people that he had grown up around.

Conversely, Nate could choose to be with Phoebe. This was a good choice because it would allow him to focus on the life of his child, someone that he very much wanted to be heavily involved with. He would be able to keep his job in the company, the job that he had been doing for eight years. It was a high posts but it would not allow him to have any control over the direction the company took. Instead, he would have to do as he was told. His mother would hate him for it, he knew. His mother would not like the fact that people who had no idea what her husband had wanted were now running the company that he had built from the ground up.

However, there were some things that were more important than companies and money, and one of those things was love. Nate was starting to realize that he loved Phoebe. He loved her very much. He had tried to deny it for quite some time, and he had been a fool to do that.

The reason he had denied his love for Phoebe was that acknowledging that he was in love with her would make it difficult for him to do what was expected of him. It would make it difficult for him to go about his business and run the company that his father had wanted him to run his entire life.

If he allowed himself to love Phoebe, he would be unable to run the company because he would want to achieve his heart’s greatest desire. He would want to choose his family, he would want to become a husband to Phoebe if she would want him like that. He did not know, of course, if she wanted to be with him in that way, but he was not going to leave something like this to fate. If she didn’t love him he was fine with that, he would ask her if she would be okay being with him for the sake of the child that they were going to raise together. If she didn’t want that then there was nothing, really, that Nate could do, he would have to respect Phoebe’s wishes and do what his family wanted him to do.

He had decided. He would tell Phoebe that he loved her. He had not spoken to her in two days but now he realized that this had been a mistake. He had been trying to deny his love for the wrong reasons. He decided to call her right this very second and tell her how he really felt about her. He decided to tell the woman he loved how he felt because if he did not do this he would end up regretting the lost opportunity for the rest of his life. He would regret the loss of a woman that he would have truly enjoyed being with.

He decided that it was time to take drastic measures in his life, and this was going to be one of the drastic measures that he was taking. His happiness was important, after all. If he wasn’t happy, how could he make the people around him happy? Could he really expect himself to run the company effectively if his heart lay somewhere else? No, what was done was done. He had allowed himself to love, and once you start loving somebody so deeply, so completely, there is absolutely no turning back. Once you start loving someone like this you have to think about yourself, because in doing so you surrender yourself to this all encompassing love. In doing so, you allow yourself to love fully and completely, to love to the most of your abilities, and this would make the other person happy as well which is all anyone who is in love truly wants at the end of the day.

He looked around. The room he was in seemed foreign to him. Home felt like Phoebe’s arms. That was where he wanted to be. That was where his heart truly lay, his happiness. He knew that in order to be happy he was going to have to tell his mother how he truly felt, and for the first time in a long time he was not afraid. He was doing something for himself. He was going to tell his mother everything.

He called his mother and asked her to come and see him. His mother came immediately and sat down on the leather armchair opposite Nate’s own.

“Mom, I have to tell you something,” said Nate, “and it’s something that you are not going to like hearing. It’s something that might hurt you, but you have to listen to it until the very end alright? You are going to have to trust that whatever I’m doing is for the best, and whatever I have done is simply a mistake that cannot be taken back anymore. You’re going to have to trust me, mother.”

“Alright,” said Nate’s mother cautiously. She was clearly afraid of what Nate was going to say right now but she wasn’t going to show her fear. She was going to listen to what her son had to say and she would react accordingly.

Nate appreciated that his mother did not preemptively react the way so many people did when they were told that they were going to receive bad news. It made it easier for him to do what he was about to do. It made it easier for him to talk things out with his mother and tell her what had been going on for so long.

“Mother,” said Nate, “I’ve gotten a girl pregnant.”

“Oh Nate,” said his mother. “What have you done? What if the board members find out about this? What do you think they will do? Do you think they are going to let you run the company after you have behaved so utterly irresponsibly?”

“I highly doubt they are going to let me do anything now,” said Nate, “and I don’t care. I don’t care if they find out. I’m done trying to hide this. I’m done trying to be ashamed, mother, because I want to be a father to this child. The girl that’s pregnant, I love her mom, I really do.”