Expecting the CEO's Child by Yvonne Lindsay

Author:Yvonne Lindsay [Lindsay, Yvonne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2014-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

Jenna could hear Dylan’s heart racing beneath her ear, and her lips curved into a smile. He might be the CEO of the Lassiter Grill Corporation, he might be a world-renowned chef and playboy, but underneath it all he was still just a man. A pretty damn fine one, that was for sure. And, right now, he was hers.

Her man forever? She was beginning to believe it could be true. She’d loved spending time with him and his family this evening. Could she find the courage to reach out from behind her safe fortress and grasp what he offered? Only time would tell.

Dylan’s fingers traced a lazy trail from her hip to her shoulders and back again, his touch setting off tiny shivers beneath her skin. She stretched beneath his touch, like a cat, almost purring.

“Tell me what you like,” he asked softly. “This?” He firmed his touch. “Or this?”

“Hmm, let me take about the next twenty minutes or so to get back to you on that,” she replied.

He laughed and the sound filled her heart with happiness.

“Twenty minutes? That’s quite a commitment.”

“It might be,” she said, realizing that if she really wanted this—really wanted him—she needed to take the bull by the horns and open up to him.

But whenever he started talking about commitment it still struck a knell of fear inside her. He knew virtually nothing about her but the face she presented to him right here, right now. The person she was today was a far cry from the person she’d been eleven years ago.

Pretty much everything about Dylan and his life was an open book. Yes, he’d had sorrow in his life with the death of his parents and then his adoptive mother, and more recently, J.D. But with each loss, he’d had the advantage of family, of someone else willing to step up to the plate and fill that yearning hole in his life.

With the loss of his parents it had been J.D. and his wife, Ellie. With the death of Ellie, Jenna had learned tonight, Marlene had stepped into the breach to provide mothering to Dylan and his brother. What had Jenna ever had growing up, except a will for survival? That will had gotten her through her parents’ arguments, their one-upmanship and then her mother’s desertion.

It had gotten her through the news that her father was taking her to America, away from everything and everyone she’d ever known or allowed herself to anchor to.

Did she dare anchor herself to Dylan?

“You’re thinking so hard I can just about hear the cogs turning in your brain,” Dylan said teasingly. “Wanna share?”

She began to say no, but then realized that this was a perfect opportunity to give him some of her truths. What he did with it would define what happened between them in the future.

“I was just thinking about how different our lives were, growing up.”

“How so?”

“You had such stability, such strength behind your family. It’s like everyone has a place and they fit there, y’know?”

“Uh-huh.

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