A Baby To Make Her His Bride (Mills & Boon Modern) (Four Weddings and a Baby, Book 4) by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins [Collins, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-03-31T18:30:00+00:00

She was gone thirty minutes later.

Jasper told himself that was good. His preference was to navigate this alone, as he had done for most of his adult life. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to involve himself in Vienna’s divorce drama, although he didn’t—yet he already had, he acknowledged grimly. Not that he had any regrets in how he’d handled Neal. If anything, he hadn’t been hard enough on him. He should have scared him off for even glancing at Vienna ever again.

No, his far greater concern was that a public acknowledgement of their involvement could put her in the same jeopardy he and his family faced. He had already been thinking they should deny their relationship and part ways as quickly as possible when she had said, There’s nothing more between us than casual acquaintance.

That had slid with unexpected abrasion across a very old wound, one that shouldn’t still be so raw, but was.

In those seconds, as she offered to put her team at his disposal, as if he couldn’t afford his own flight and security detail, he’d flashed back to a very well-dressed woman in a Lexus pulling up beside him as he was doing cart returns at the grocery store. She had introduced herself as his girlfriend’s aunt and offered an upscale shopping bag with string handles. It had contained his hoodie, his favorite book on mineral identification, and the empty keychain that read Sweet, matching the fob on his own keys that read, Heart.

Your things, the woman had said. Annalise is staying with me while she finishes school.

But what about—?

His heart had thrust itself into his mouth.

She’s seen the broader picture of her future. It doesn’t include becoming a mother right now. Or you. Don’t contact her.

Her body, her choice. Jasper had respected that. Given the still fresh loss of his mother and his crushing responsibilities to his father and sister, he’d been in a panic as to how he would also support a partner and a baby, but he felt no real comfort in having all of that yanked away. Especially not when the disdain in that woman’s face left him feeling so inadequate and unworthy.

Her future doesn’t include you.

Like he was some kind of war criminal. Annalise hadn’t changed schools to avoid gossip. She hadn’t wanted to see him.

And there was Vienna dismissing their relationship just as dispassionately, now that her association with him had consequences.

With bile sitting in the back of his throat, he had carried her bag to the garage and nodded curtly when she said goodbye.

He didn’t dwell on her abrupt departure. He had his own vehicle and his own crisis to manage, which was where he forced his thoughts to turn.

After a brief call to his father, warning him to take precautions, he called his lawyer to advise that he was moving his timeline up. He might not catch Orlin Caulfield in his net, but he could still snag a lot of slippery fish.

He packed as he made his next call, requesting his financial advisor reactivate all his accounts.

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