Hot New Neighbor by Sienna Chance

Author:Sienna Chance [Chance, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-29T18:30:00+00:00

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Ellie

Two months later

I looked in the mirror, frowning at my reflection. My hips had definitely widened, but other than that my pregnancy wasn’t showing at all. My belly was still flat when I ran my hand over it. I was glad for that—the only thing I’d decided so far about this baby was that I was going to keep it. What I didn’t know was where I was going to raise the baby or how I was going to explain who its father was one day. I didn’t know how to tell a child that I’d been left after a brief affair with a man who decided to go back to his beautiful, perfect wife.

“What are you looking at?” Heather asked.

I made my face blank and turned to her. “Nothing. Just some wrinkles.”

She snorted. “You don’t have wrinkles, Ellie.”

“Yes, I do,” I insisted, going over to sit next to her. So far, I hadn’t told anybody about the pregnancy. I didn’t want to see the look of sympathy on Heather’s face when I told her I was going to be a single mother, abandoned after Lucas left me for another woman. I didn’t think I could stomach her expression, so I kept the baby a secret for now. I was about to go on tour in Europe for my latest book, which had risen to the international bestseller list with the help of Lucas’s cover. It had gained attention from the highest literary magazines advertising romance and had sold millions of copies throughout the world. It seemed like I’d become a star overnight, but I didn’t feel like I could enjoy any of that success, not when I’d lost the one person I’d ever truly loved.

“Are you excited about your trip?” she asked.

“Not really,” I said dully. I hated the idea of going to book signings and speaking to the public, especially knowing that some of them would inevitably ask me about the model on the cover of the book. I’d have to explain that it was a friend who’d let me use his photos and try to leave it at that. I also didn’t like to be in front of people in the first place—I was a writer, someone who stayed behind the keyboard. That’s how I did my talking. My agent had explained to me that there would be a reading and that people would ask me questions, and after that I could leave as quickly as I wanted. I only hoped I could get through it without embarrassing myself in front of my readers.

The trip to Europe lasted only a couple of weeks, and by the time it was over I was completely exhausted and ready to be home. Being pregnant seemed to make me tired all the time. Tired and hungry. It was getting harder by the week to hide my pregnancy but luckily the biggest thing that had changed so far was my breasts, which had swollen in size and had to be hidden under baggy t-shirts that didn’t flatter my body at all.

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