Finding My Baby Daddy (Pandora and Benjamin) novel Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Pandora looked at her dad’s house, taking a few deep breaths, trying to muster up the courage to go inside.[

‘I am a grown woman with a job, a car, and a house!‘ she told herself, but she also had that small voice in the back of her mind repudiate. ‘Did you forget the ex–husband whom your father asked you not to marry?‘]

Pandora groaned, knowing she was about to start her engine and just leave with how conflicted her thoughts were.[]

She jumped when she heard a sharp knock on her car’s window.

“Sorry.” Nina smiled as she looked through the window. Pandora let out a nervous laugh and opened her car door. “Is everything alright?” Nina asked as she looked her stepdaughter over.[]

“Yeah,” Pandora muttered and shut the door.[]

Nina and she walked to the house the older woman shared with her father. They had known each other since high school. They went from being close friends to raising Pandora together. Nina’s husband cheated on her ten years ago and Pandora’s father, Walter, stuck by her side.[]

Her father had just retired from being a prosecutor and started his own law firm around the time and Nina became one of his first clients. Of course, Nina couldn’t stay with her estranged husband during a divorce, so she asked Walter if she could rent a room in his house. And as months passed, the two fell in love and got married. This was a few months before Pandora’s marriage fell apart.

“Hello, dear,” Walter said, looking up from his paper. “Pandora?” he carried on when he noticed his daughter. He put the paper away, frowning. “You look terrible.”

Pandora rolled her eyes before sitting down. Why did people think it was okay to point out that she didn’t look as lovely as usual? Wouldn’t they assume that people who looked like crap probably felt like crap as well? She somehow doubted anyone wanted to be reminded that they looked like hell had frozen over.]

“Is there something wrong?” Nina asked and touched Pandora’s hand.[]

“Not really,” she whispered.[]

As her eyes stayed on Pandora’s, she frowned.]

“What’s wrong? Do I need to call the doctor?” her dad inquired frantically.[]

“No, Dad. I already saw the doctor,” she said. This information further worried her father.]

“How bad is it?”

‘Depending on how bad you think it is to have a daughter who is divorced and pregnant. At least, I am not dying, right?” Pandora thought about her response before taking a deep breath.]

“I’m pregnant,” she let out the news finally.[]