Claiming The Rancher's Heir by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2020-09-02T17:30:50+00:00

Seven

Creed knew he had basically lost his mind earlier, but he didn’t regret it.

In fact, he was making plans to call his lawyer. He was going to do whatever he had to do to get his way. That was when Wren showed up on his doorstep.

She looked strange. Because she was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, and she looked smaller somehow, and yet resolute.

It was the resoluteness that concerned him.

“I’m sorry I left things the way they were earlier,” she said, breezing into his house without an invitation.

She wandered into his living room, sat on his couch.

When she had come before, she had been in his bedroom, his bathroom and his kitchen for a cup of coffee before she had run out in the early hours of the morning.

Not his living room. But there she was, sitting on the couch like a satisfied, domesticated feline. Except he had the feeling that nothing about Wren was particularly domestic.

“What exactly are you here for?”

“Not to agree to your demands. Sorry. But it’s ridiculous to think that we have to get married just because we’re having a baby.”

“Is it?”

“It is to me. I’m pretty much one hundred percent not here for it.”

“That’s a shame. Because I’m one hundred percent...” He frowned. “Here for it? What the hell does that even mean?”

“Why?”

She was glaring at him with jewel-bright eyes, and it was the determination there that worried him.

“What do you mean ‘why’? I told you earlier. It’s because I’m not going to take a back seat to raising my child.”

“Why? I mean, you don’t even know the kid.”

“Neither do you, and you’re sure that you want it.”

“Sure. But I’m...you know, carrying it. I sense the miracle of life and whatever,” she said, some of the wind taken out of her sails.

“No, if you can be certain then I can be certain.”

“You have to be honest with me,” she said. “Because when I left here earlier what I realized was that I don’t actually know anything about you. We have worked in proximity to each other for the last five years. And we fight. We... We create some kind of insane electrical surge when we are together, and I can’t explain it. And somehow in all of that, I convinced myself that I knew you. But that night that we were here together after the party, there was something wrong. I knew it, even though I didn’t know what it was. And when I told you I was pregnant... Look, I didn’t expect you to be thrilled about it. But I didn’t expect you to demand that I marry you. And I think the problem is, we just don’t know each other.”

“We know each other well enough. I’d be good to you. I wouldn’t cheat.”

She didn’t look convinced. Not by his offer, not at all. And she should be. What the hell more could she possibly want? Love, he supposed. But here they both were in their thirties, not anywhere near close to settling down, and they were having a kid.

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