Her Twin Baby Secret by Therese Beharrie

Author:Therese Beharrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-08T14:09:42+00:00

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‘You’re not drinking?’

‘Oh. Um...no.’ Alexa had prepared for this in the car. But there was something about actually being asked about her pregnancy, even indirectly, that made her freeze up. Probably the fact that she had to lie. ‘I’m driving.’

‘One drink wouldn’t hurt,’ Cherise said kindly.

There was nothing Alexa wanted less than kindness at that moment.

‘She’s a lightweight,’ Benjamin cut in. ‘One drink and she’s about as tipsy as I am after four. So, to answer your question—one drink would hurt.’

If she went by Benjamin’s tone, it wasn’t kindness that inspired his words. But it wasn’t malice either, and he was saving her from having to think about a more intricate lie. She gave him a half-smile in thanks, but looked away before she could see whether he smiled back. He was acting weird, and she didn’t want to be hurt by whatever mood he was in.

Because you’re already hurt.

No, she told the inner voice. She wasn’t hurt by Benjamin’s attitude. So what if he was acting like the old Benjamin? The one who was reluctant and competitive and reminded her more of her brother than of the person she was beginning to think of as more than an acquaintance?

If anything, the problem was that she had begun to think of him in a friendly manner. He wasn’t her friend—she wouldn’t make that mistake—but she’d confided in him and kissed him. No wonder she was feeling a little out of sorts now that he was acting like someone she hadn’t confided in or kissed. She should have anticipated it, and she hadn’t, and that was partly why she was feeling this way.

Benjamin had always been so competitive in class. She hadn’t known him before, so she’d assumed he was just a competitive person. Working with her brother, stealing her head chef... Those things seemed to prove it. Then he’d pretended to be her boyfriend in front of Lee. She’d seen him with his mother, he’d offered to give her Cherise... Those things didn’t seem like a person who was inherently competitive, but simply someone who liked competition.

There was nothing wrong with that. Hell, she was even willing to be in the competition with him. But that was before today had happened. Before she’d seen him watching her as she worked and she could all but feel the frustration radiating off him. He glanced at her so many times that she knew he was comparing. It was common sense as much as it was experience; she’d spent her entire childhood knowing what that comparison looked like. Lee had done it to her. And she had no desire, none, to be a basis of comparison again.

That was what this empty feeling in her chest was. Annoyance that Benjamin saw her as someone to beat. Someone to be better than. She didn’t think better or worse had anything to do with Cherise’s choice; it would be the person Cherise got along with best. Except it was clear Benjamin didn’t see it that way.

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