A Forbidden Night With The Housekeeper (Mills & Boon Modern) by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

‘Your girlfriend is healthy but undernourished, Mr Durand, and exhausted. I’ve given her a supply of vitamins, but what she needs most right now is rest. And someone to make sure she eats three square meals a day. No more working on her feet for hours would also be a good idea,’ the doctor said, giving Maxim a judgemental look.

He ignored it. He didn’t care what the obstetrician thought of him, as long as she could reassure him that Cara was well.

The doctor packed the last of her instruments into her bag. ‘Your child is certainly much livelier than its mother at the moment. It has a firm, steady heartbeat and quite an impressive kick.’

‘It kicks?’ he asked, the words catching in his throat as his heart somersaulted in his chest. He’d been trying not to think too much about the baby.

The doctor smiled. ‘Your child is very active and big for dates, from what I can tell by touch. Cara says she missed her last prenatal appointment.’ The doctor sighed as she snapped the bag closed. ‘Apparently she overslept.’ The woman shot him the same judgemental look, probably wondering why a man as rich as he was had allowed the mother of his child to work long into the night for the minimum wage.

Maxim tried not to care what the doctor thought of him. Cara would no longer be risking her health working dead-end jobs. She might not have wanted him to support her, but everything had changed. He had a responsibility to her now that he had no intention of shirking, so he was going to give her no choice in the matter.

She was coming to live in Burgundy with him, as soon as he could make arrangements for them to be married. He’d considered the pros and cons of the arrangement while the doctor examined Cara and he could see no other solution that would satisfy him. He couldn’t trust her not to risk her health and well-being. And—while he doubted he would ever be capable of having a relationship with this child—he refused to allow it to be born without his name.

The doctor passed him her card. ‘If you want to bring her to the clinic tomorrow we can do a proper blood workup and an ultrasound scan to give the baby a thorough check. But, for the moment, I’d suggest leaving her alone to get a good night’s sleep.’

The implication was clear in the doctor’s stern expression—no sex tonight. Perhaps she had heard of his ‘insatiable appetites’ from the tabloid press. While he had earned that reputation in the past, the doctor’s stern look was ironic now, given that he hadn’t had the inclination to touch any other woman since he had left Cara’s bed five months ago.

‘Do not worry, I have no intention of demanding any sexual favours from Cara tonight,’ he said.

Or ever, he thought as he stuffed the doctor’s card into his back pocket, the sting of guilt unmistakable.

Having Cara in his

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