Baby Before Business (Silhouette Romance) by Susan Meier

Author:Susan Meier [Meier, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The next morning Madelyn arrived at Bryant Development late for Ty’s regularly scheduled meeting with his department heads. When she got off the elevator, she said good morning to Joni, then took a quick breath, straightened her shoulders and walked into the conference room.

“Ms. Gentry, I see you’ve decided to join us. Even though you’re—” he glanced at his watch “—thirty minutes late.”

Head high and spine ramrod straight, Madelyn took a seat at the far end of the long table. “I dropped Sabrina off at my parents’ this morning.”

“Really? What a novel idea to have a third party watch the baby rather than bring her to work.”

Madelyn opened her notebook, glad he was behaving like a moron. She’d actually mourned her decision not to sleep with him the night before. Not because she wanted to prove she thought he was a good person, but because the fire burning through her veins every time they touched was unlike anything she’d ever felt.

Until he spoke. Because when he spoke, his true colors came out. He was probably the most self-absorbed, cold, emotionless man she’d ever met. If he had given her one word of tenderness or romance the night before, she would have melted. Instead, he’d propositioned her as if sex were nothing but a way to prove a point, insulting her to the tips of her toes. Yet in a way, that was lucky. His view of making love proved that she had been wrong about him. There wasn’t a nice guy inside Ty. He was a one-dimensional, selfish, success-at-any-cost jerk. Madelyn kept giving him the benefit of the doubt because the good things he did confused her into thinking he had a heart. But he didn’t. His sense of responsibility forced him to raise his brothers, provide a home for his cousin’s child and create good jobs for the townspeople. He was responsible. He wasn’t nice.

Still, as she watched him conduct his meeting, she couldn’t stop the sexual awareness that snaked through her. He lifted his arm to point at a number on the overhead screen, opening his black jacket and exposing his white shirt, and she remembered there was a fabulous male form beneath because she’d seen him in jeans and T-shirts. She’d tasted the sureness of his kiss, the experience of it. Even without making love to this man, she felt sure he knew a million ways to pleasure a woman, and if they ever did succumb to their passion, the explosion would be surreal. The experience would be surreal.

She stopped that thought. Sex without emotion was only sex and she shouldn’t even be thinking about it. But she was curious. Damn curious. Still, she couldn’t sleep with someone just for the fun of it. Especially not someone totally devoid of emotion. She had been brought up to want relationships with good men. Actually, having been taught to look for a morally upright man might explain why she kept theorizing that Ty Bryant had a good side. She was searching for a way to make her fantasy of sleeping with him legitimate.

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