His Heir, Her Secret (Highland Heroes Book 1) by Janice Maynard

Author:Janice Maynard [Maynard, Janice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Mother-To-Be, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Beautiful & Feisty, Reconcile The Past, Small Town & Rural Area, Family & Domestic Life, Highland Heroes, Marriage of Convenience
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Published: 2018-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Eleven

A man knew when he had been summarily dismissed. Hell.

Isobel’s worried expression underscored his own unease. She shook her head. “I’m sorry, lad. Do you think she heard the whole conversation? I shouldn’t have butted in.”

Given his grandmother’s obvious distress, Brody didn’t have it in him to chastise her. “Not to worry,” he said lightly. “I’ll smooth things out with Cate.”

“Not tonight.”

“No,” he said ruefully. “It won’t be tonight.”

Only when he undressed at 1 a.m. and crawled naked into his lonely bed did he realize how much he had come to anticipate the sweet hours with Cate at the end of each day. Her changing body was a miracle to him.

The wounded look he had seen in her eyes earlier troubled him. Was he at fault in this situation? He’d proposed marriage, damn it. What more could she expect from him?

A restless sleep did nothing for his disposition. He spent the long hours alternating between unsettling dreams and awakening to find himself with a painful erection. By the time he arrived in the kitchen the following morning, he was in a foul mood. It didn’t help that Cate barely acknowledged his presence. Isobel had not made an appearance. One of the signs she was slowing down at all was that she liked to sleep in until nine or ten.

Brody poured himself coffee. The American custom was one he had embraced eagerly. Today he would have mainlined the caffeine if he could. Instead, he downed the first cup and started in on a second.

Cate sat at the small table in the breakfast nook, her head buried in a pregnancy magazine.

He took the chair at the opposite side of the table and stared at her, hoping to force a confrontation. Apparently, her ability to ignore him was greater than his patience for being ignored. “Look at me, Cate,” he said, forcing the words between clenched teeth.

She glanced up, wrinkled her nose dismissively and returned to her reading.

Brody counted to ten. “I don’t understand why you’re so pissed at me,” he said, aggrieved and truculent.

Very slowly, she folded down the corner of the page she had been reading, closed the magazine deliberately and met his ill humor with a bland green-eyed gaze. “You called our baby a problem,” she said. “I wasn’t aware that my child and I were such a great hindrance to your welfare. I would tell you to get the hell on a plane and head back to your precious moors, but you’re not a man known for taking direction well, now, are you?”

Her snotty tone sent him into the red zone. “You don’t want to mess with me this morning, Cate,” he said, each word distinct and as threatening as he could make them.

His attempt at cowing her bounced off as if she had sealed her emotions in a deep freeze. “Go away, Brody. Let me have my breakfast in peace.”

This time he had to count to twenty. He was angry and horny and completely out of his depth.

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