Expecting His Billion-Dollar Scandal (Once Upon a Temptation, Book 5) by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams [Williams, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-05-28T14:32:04+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘FIRST OF ALL I will need to have the pregnancy confirmed. I have a trusted doctor.’

‘I don’t see the point. I’m not lying and I don’t want anything from you. If you choose to disbelieve me, then that’s okay. I will have done what I came to do and I’ll leave here with a clear conscience.’ She burned with curiosity about this woman he had chosen to be his future wife. Were they lovers? She didn’t want to let her mind drift down those disturbing paths but she couldn’t block out images of him with another woman. Her hormones were all over the place and just thinking those thoughts brought the sting of tears to her eyes.

‘Provided there is a confirmed pregnancy, the announcement of our marriage will...not be a straightforward affair.’

Cordelia’s mouth fell open and she stared at him in astonishment. He didn’t notice. He was frowning, thinking, calculating. She realised that he was working out how to deal with the mess that had landed on his lap.

But marriage?

‘I will have to convene a family meeting,’ he continued, still seemingly oblivious to her gaping incredulity. He was thinking aloud and she could have been a potted plant in the corner of the room for all the attention he was paying to her. She was a problem that had to be addressed and he was in the process of addressing it.

‘“Convene a family meeting”?’ she asked, when in fact the question on the tip of her tongue was, Marriage? Are you insane? What on earth are you talking about?

‘Firstly, I will, of course, have to break the news to my father.’

It struck Luca that his father was probably not going to hit the roof, contrary to what everyone else might expect. He knew his father. Giovanni Baresi, like the entire Russo clan, of whom Isabella was one of four daughters, expected him to marry into the other great Italian winery. Celebrations might not be afoot just yet but once the expected announcement was made, and everyone knew that that time was just round the corner because neither he nor Isabella were getting any younger, then preparations would move swiftly and smoothly. The wedding of the decade would be arranged with the exquisite perfection of a highly organised military campaign.

His father had talked about this arranged marriage recently, before departing on his extended holiday. There had been pressure but the pressure had been slight.

An arranged marriage. What suited him from an emotional point of view, not to mention financial point of view, was, deep down, anathema to a man like Giovanni Baresi, who had always enjoyed the highs and lows of an emotional-roller-coaster personal life. His great love had died too young but that had not stopped him from searching for its replacement in every unsuitable nook and cranny.

It had been enough to turn Luca off the whole messy business of falling in love for ever, which was something he suspected his father had never really understood.

So to have the

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