Los Hijos Del Millonario: by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Romance, Love Stories, Contemporary, Adult, England, Inheritance and succession, Pregnancy, Billionaires
ISBN: 9780373896554
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

"I intend to be," he replied softly.

"But especially gentle," she said with relish. "It's a. . dangerous time, you know."

Luke frowned at her innuendos. "What is?"

"Oh, dear, Sophie hasn't told you yet."

"Told me what?"

She smiled with satisfaction. "I'll leave it to your little bride to tell you. Have fun." She stepped back from the car, waving with the other guests.

The car shot away so fast that Sophie was flung back against the headrest. "What did she mean?" Luke asked grimly.

She turned slowly from waving to look apprehensively at his cold hard face. "I don't know," she lied miserably.

His foot pressed firmly down on the accelerator. "Yes, you do. What was she talking about, Sophie? "

"It's all your fault," she accused shakily. "You gave them the idea in the first place.''

"Explain yourself," he snapped.

She took a deep breath, her hands entwined nervously on her lap. "My stepmother has the mistaken idea that I'm expecting your baby," she told him.

Luke gave her a hard, probing look, noting the vulnerability of her trembling mouth, the shadows in her eyes. "And why should she think that?"

"Because you told them—"

"But why does she think it is a fact?" he asked abruptly.

"Because I—I was sick just now and I—I haven't—I—"

"I see." Cold angry eyes raked over her slender curves. "And is it true?"

"You know it isn't!" she gasped. "We haven't—"

"The child does not have to be mine," he interrupted abruptly.

Sophie gave him a horrified stare. "You can't be serious!"

"I am very serious. If I find you have… The marriage will end immediately if I find it to be true," he said harshly.

"But you know it isn't," she said desperately, tears swimming in her eyes.

“The evidence would seem to show otherwise."

"Evidence!" Anger entered her voice. "I'm not on trial, Luke. Just because I happen not to have—well, that doesn't mean anything other than that I've had a lot on my mind lately. It sometimes has that effect.''

"I hope for your sake that that is the case. I would not like to think that your afternoon meeting with Sedgwick Jones came to any more than a tumble in the hay."

"A tumble in the— You're disgusting!"

"I am your husband," he stated, one of his hands moving out to clasp her chin in a cruel grasp. The expression in his eyes could only be called possessive. "You will do well to remember that it is I and I alone who has the right to claim your body."

Sophie wrenched out of his grasp, uncaring of the pain it 'caused. "And when that happens you'll know once and for all that I'm not pregnant."

"How will I know that?"

"Isn't it obvious?" she snapped.

He gave her another cold look. "We shall see."

Sophie was treated to his icy politeness all the way to the airport, accepting the magazines he bought her as an indication that they were not to talk on the short flight, either. She was right—Luke sat back in his seat, his eyes closed.

. Instead of reading the magazines as he had obviously

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