Inherited: One Nanny by Emma Darcy

Author:Emma Darcy [Darcy, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781460864951
Google: zSKSFSS4yrgC
Publisher: Mills & Boon (UK)
Published: 1998-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

BEAU leaned back against the door to the Rose Suite and shut his eyes in sheer anguish at having committed the worst folly of his life.

Trapped!

Trapped by the oldest method in the world.

Impossible for him to shun a woman he might have made pregnant. What’s more, if she had his child he was tied to her for life!

And he’d walked right into it like one of those suicidal animals—lemmings—that threw themselves off cliffs. No rationality to what he’d done. No stopping for wiser consideration. His brain had fused and animal instinct had taken over the driving seat. He should have shot himself in the foot before going into Maggie Stowe’s bedroom. It might have kept him sane.

Summoning up the last shreds of his utterly depleted energy, he pushed away from the door and plodded down the corridor to his own suite. One hell of a day, he thought, and hell’s fires were still burning. He’d be damned lucky if he wasn’t scorched forever from this night’s work. Never in his life had he lost his head so completely. Never! He had no answer to it.

Sweet relief to reach his own bedroom and crawl between the sheets. He was wrecked. In every sense. Maggie, the cat, had clawed him inside out and finished up with a dish of cream that would never run dry... if she was pregnant and carried it through. Which she would. Beau had no doubt about it. The way she’d checked his attitude about fatherhood made that course a certainty.

Not that he’d want her to sneak off and have an abortion. His child was his child. Getting rid of it was not an option in his book. All the same, he desperately hoped there would be no consequences from tonight’s madness.

In all fairness to Maggie Stowe, he couldn’t say she’d planned it. There was no way she could have anticipated his visit to her suite. He had to believe her claim that she hadn’t expected to see him, so she hadn’t set out to seduce him by wearing the sinfully provocative slip of silk and lace.

No, she definitely hadn’t planned it, but she was a dead-set opportunist. Why else would she have flaunted herself in a sizzling challenge to him? It was a carnal come-on if ever he saw one. No protest from her when he’d responded to it. No attempt to stop him. She’d been right with him from the start, revelling in the whole mad ride.

For a moment, his body gripped with the memory of how fantastic it had been, the incredibly intense excitement of... But it still shouldn’t have happened. Giving great sex was fine but it wasn’t all he wanted in a woman. For the mother of his child he’d want a few other attributes, especially someone he could trust!

And what did he have in Maggie Stowe?

A woman from nowhere!

Still, worrying about what couldn’t be changed wasn’t going to get him anywhere, either. Sleep was what he needed. He’d face whatever he had to face tomorrow.

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