Her Surprise Baby Christmas by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

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“Darling, it’s been an age. Where have you been?”

Vitalo stared at the view from his office window, his phone held too-tight in his hand as Kat’s voice filled his mind, her breathy tones so familiar, so flirtatious. So wrong.

Everything inside of him clenched. He held the phone to his ear and immediately wished he hadn’t answered it.

A week after marrying Bella and he had no damned idea how he was going to navigate the Kat situation. His new mother-in-law also happened to be the woman he’d been coveting for a decade, the woman he would have said he’d fallen completely in love with as a twenty five year old man. The woman he’d denied himself, for love and loyalty of a dead friend.

A woman he could have any time, if he snapped his fingers.

His eyes narrowed in on a bird, flying along the beach, before it disappeared from view.

“I’ve been calling and messaging. What’s happened?”

Well, Kat, I got your daughter pregnant and then I married her. He winced. “I’m on the island,” he said, finally.

“Why?” He could practically hear her pulling a face of disbelief. “You never go there this long.”

“I’ve decided to spend more time here,” he said.

“But it’s so far from me!” A pout was in the words. “And I miss you.”

“How’s married life?” he asked, and regretted the tone of his voice almost immediately, because it had sounded accusing, as though he blamed her for re-marrying, when in actuality, he was glad.

“Lorenzo is still cross with me,” she sighed.

“I’m sure he will forgive you eventually.”

“When will you be in Athens next, darling?” She turned the conversation back easily. “I miss you.”

Panic rose inside of him, and it was an unwelcome and unfamiliar experience. He had the strangest sense the four walls of his office were closing in on him, pushing at his edges, squashing him into a tiny gap; air was scarce, and stars danced against his eyes.

“Not for some time,” he said, surprised the words weren’t laced with self-condemnation.

“It is only a short flight. Why don’t you send the helicopter for me, next time I’m in Greece. I’ll come for the weekend…”

Danger lurched at his feet. “Kat, you’re married. And even if you weren’t, Andrew was my closest friend, and you were his wife. We have had this conversation many times. I cannot fathom why you think I will change my mind.”

She expelled a soft breath, and he waited, holding his own, his body held stiff and tight, his mind on pause. “Because you’re a man,” she said, and laughed lightly. “And I’ve seen how you look at me. How you’ve looked at me for years. One of these days, you’re going to get sick of denying yourself what you really want.”

His stomach clenched at the words that might have been true six months ago – words that revolted him now. And though he’d decided to wait, though he knew the situation required tender handling, he heard his drawled response: “I got married, Kat. Not long after your wedding.

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