The CEO Above My Desk (Mckenzie Shinabery) novel Chapter 206

The CEO Above My Desk

Chapter 206

“You do not need to make every decision tonight.”

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That made me pause.

Bennett continued gently, “You don’t have to figure out motherhood tonight. You don’t have to figure out your marriage tonight.” Her eyes softened slightly. “And you definitely don’t need to figure out the next eighteen years while standing in a corporate bathroom during a federal investigation.”

“I just…” I swallowed hard. “I don’t even know how to tell Rowan.”

At that, Camille actually smiled. Not teasing this time. Soft. Knowing.

“Oh please,” she said quietly. “That man already looks at you like you personally invented happiness.”

My chest tightened painfully.

Agent Bennett nodded once slightly. “He’s observant.”

Camille snorted softly. “Obsessive.”

“Protective,” Bennett corrected calmly.

I leaned back against the counter slowly while staring at the test again. Positive. Still positive. Still terrifying.

Camille suddenly wrapped an arm around my shoulders and pulled me sideways against her.

And just like that, I finally let myself lean into somebody else for a second.

“I’m here,” she whispered quietly against my hair. “Okay? No matter what happens upstairs… no matter what happens with this case… I’m here.”

I stared at the pregnancy test for another long moment before finally reaching over and grabbing it off the counter. I wrapped the stupid test in toilet paper quickly before shoving it into my coat pocket.

A little gross? Sure. But honestly, I’d done worse.

Camille watched me carefully. “That cannot possibly be sanitary.”

“I survived motel coffee and gas station sushi once.” I shrugged weakly. “I’ll live.”

Agent Bennett snorted quietly under her breath before straightening again.

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I looked toward her tiredly. “So what now?”

Her expression shifted slightly back toward professional mode again. “Now,” she said calmly, “it’s your turn.”

Right. Federal interrogation. Wonderful.

I exhaled slowly before nodding once. “Okay.”

Camille immediately grabbed my hand before we left the bathroom. Not dramatically. Just quickly. Grounding me.

“You good?”

No. Absolutely not. But I still squeezed her hand back anyway.

Agent Bennett walked beside us quietly as the three of us headed back down the hallway toward the executive floor.

And somewhere between the bathroom and Rowan’s office lobby… A terrible idea entered my brain. A truly awful one. Petty. Emotional. Slightly immature.

I decided immediately that this was how I was telling him.

He was probably going to hate me for it. But considering he spent the last six hours hovering around me like an emotionally constipated security system while simultaneously helping interrogate his ex–assistant?

I felt a little justified.

As we pushed through the side office doors back onto the executive floor, Rowan was standing beside my desk talking quietly with Theo and Devin.

The second he saw me, his entire posture shifted immediately. Attention locking onto me instantly.

God. That man really did watch me constantly now.

I took one steadying breath. Then walked straight toward him.

Rowan opened his mouth immediately. “Are you alri-”

I pulled the pregnancy test from my pocket and slapped it directly against his chest. Hard enough it made a smacking sound against his suit jacket.

The entire executive floor froze. Completely. Theo’s mouth physically dropped open. Devin stared blankly. Camille immediately folded over laughing behind me.

And Rowan?

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Rowan just stood there holding the pregnancy test against his chest like his brain had fully disconnected from reality.

I didn’t stop walking. Nope. Absolutely not. If I looked at him right now I might actually combust from stress.

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I shoved open the conference room doors immediately while Agent Bennett followed behind me looking significantly more entertained than a federal agent probably should.

The second the doors shut behind us, she slowly raised one eyebrow toward me. “Should you maybe have done that differently?”

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I love how you’ve written Bennett.

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