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.[]

Pandora snorted and he tapped her arm gently.

Just trying to give hope to my daughter. I also want hope that my daughter will marry a good man and have a baby on the way.“]

“I was married, Dad, no baby… but married. Now, I don’t have a husband but a baby on the way,” she chuckled. It was a good exchange, in her opinion.[]

“I am here for you,” Walter said, kissing the side of Pandora’s head.]

“So, I can be excited then?” Nina asked, clapping her hands in excitement.]

“If you must,” Walter answered, sounding nonchalant.[]

“Of course, I should!” Nina exclaimed, hugging Pandora to her.

After she got home, Pandora ran a bath. She had just propped her head on a bath pillow and closed her eyes when a loud bang made her jump. She looked around the room as her brain tried to work out what it was. The loud thumping sound came again, but this time she was able to determine that someone was knocking on her front door.]

Her heart pounded as there was a third round of knocking. This time, it sounded more like they were trying to break her door down