To Catch a Man (In 30 Days or Less) (The BAD BOY BILLIONAIRES Series) by Judy Angelo

understand.  I know you’re busy getting ready for the
baby.”  She bit her lip.  She would just have to be patient.  Stone would be
back soon enough.  Johannesburg was only two and a half hour's drive away.  She
turned back to Jenna.  “Did he say what time he’d be back?”
    “He said he’d be gone three, maybe
four days.”
    Three or four days.  In Indie's
world that was a lifetime.  She was already down to the wire and then to lose
that many days?  Her heart sank.  So near to her goal and yet so far.  There
was nothing she could do but wait.
    But Indie did not have to wait long
before excitement hit the compound.  The following day she was in the classroom
with the ninth graders when Kirk rushed up to the door.
    “My truck won’t start.  Where’s the
driver?”  He was breathing hard as if he’d run all the way from his house.
    “Fenyang is away on holiday.  He
went back to his township but Dominic should be around here somewhere.”  Then,
seeing desperation leap into his eyes, Indie got up from her chair and hurried
to him.  “What’s wrong?  Is it Jenna?”
    “Yes, and the truck won’t start
and…and…I just have to find the driver.”  Kirk looked just about ready to pull
out his hair.
    “Boys,” Indie yelled over her
shoulder, “I’ll be right back.”  She grabbed Kirk’s arm.  “Come on.  I’ll find Dominic. 
You go back and stay with Jenna.  Don’t leave her alone.”
    Kirk ran off across the yard and
Indie headed straight for the kitchen.  There were not that many places on the
compound where a young man could hang out and the kitchen was a likely place to
start.
    And there he was, resting in the back
while Cook and his assistants chopped carrots on the counter.
    As soon as Indie explained the
situation Dominic dashed off to get his Jeep and then he was off to Kirk and
Jenna’s place.  Minutes later the van roared through the gate of the compound
to the cheers of the ninth grade boys who had sneaked out of their classroom.
    After that exciting turn of events
nothing happened.  Three days passed and Stone did not return.  Then it was
four days and then five.  Meanwhile, the clock kept ticking toward her
deadline.
    Six days into the wait Indie heard
the roar of the Jeep and it was Stone, finally back from his mission in
Johannesburg.  He’d called a couple of times during his absence but how could a
phone call from over a hundred miles away help her?
    And then, when she went out into
the yard and saw him striding toward her, she knew that it hadn’t just been
about the marriage.  It had been about Stone.  She’d missed him terribly and
now, at the sight of him, she wanted to run into his arms.
    But she couldn’t.  Instead, she
waited until he was standing right in front of her.  She looked up and to her
relief she could see in his eyes that he’d missed her, too.
    That look in his eyes spoke volumes. 
It was a look well worth the wait.
    ******
     
    It was three days later when they
got the call.  Jenna had delivered a seven-pound baby girl.
    Indie could only laugh when she
heard the news.  “Can you imagine, they tore out of here a week ago, all
because of a false labor.  But I’m glad they didn’t come back.  Joburg was the
safest place for Jenna to be.”
    “Particularly since she needed a
C-section,” Stone said, then he tilted his head toward Indie.  “What do you
think about you and me going to the city to meet this new member of the
family?”
    “I think that’s the best thing
you’ve said to me since you got back.”  Indie knew she probably looked like an
idiot with the wide grin on her face but she didn’t really care.  She was dying
to get off the compound, and she wanted to see the new baby.  And to take a
trip to Johannesburg with Stone – what better way to spend some alone time with
him?  “When can we leave?  Now?” 
    He shook his head.  “First thing in
the morning.  We can set out at sunrise and have the