One Night to Risk It All by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates [Yates, Maisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9780373132423
Google: hqnUAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0373132425
Barnesnoble: 0373132425
Goodreads: 18812507
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-14T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

IT HAD BEEN TWO WEEKS since Cannes. And two weeks since they’d last had sex. And Alex was pretty sure his head was going to explode, if parts farther south didn’t first.

He had no idea how to reach her. He’d never wanted to reach a woman before, not in any way beyond the physical. But Rachel... He wanted something more from her. Without having to give more than was comfortable. Surely that wasn’t completely unreasonable.

She didn’t want all he had to give anyway.

Not if she had any concept of what it might mean.

Hell, he wasn’t sure he had a complete concept of what it might mean and he didn’t aim to acquire one.

Still, she was staying with him, even if she was wandering around sniffing indignantly at him half of the time. She was hiding, and he knew it. But he found he didn’t care, so long as she was close. Barring the small blip of a headline about them cavorting in paradise, which had something to do with them being snapped together having dinner in Cannes, no one had picked up on what was actually happening, and considering the tenuous situation, that was fine with him.

She seemed pale, though. More so than when they’d first met, and he hated the idea that he might be the cause of it. Shouldn’t be surprised, though. That came back to him. To what was in him. A boy that no one could love, a man who was fundamentally flawed down to his very genetics.

That black blood filtering through his veins. The image he could never quite shake.

He saw her sitting out on the terrace and walked through the room, out the door, to join her. “Good morning,” he said.

“Hi.”

“Ready for the doctor to come?”

“Yes. It seems pretty extravagant to have her do a house call.”

“Until you’re ready for the story to break, we need to keep it as low key and close to home as possible. I assume you aren’t ready?”

“No. I haven’t told my father yet.”

“Have you spoken to him?”

She nodded. “Very briefly. He’s worried. I told him... I told him that I was just enjoying a little bit of fun. He said...” She blinked rapidly. “He said that was fine. That it was about time I did. Why is he so supportive of me? Even when I make such stupid mistakes?”

“Why shouldn’t he be?”

“I don’t know. I guess it would make more sense if he’d just get mad.”

“Why? You’re a grown woman. You can make your own decisions.”

“I’m not sure if I make good ones.”

A maid appeared in the doorway. “Dr. Sands is here.”

“Great. Send her in,” Alex said.

Dr. Sands, Rachel’s doctor, whom he hadn’t met yet, came out onto the terrace smiling. It felt so strange to have a doctor standing there. To know that this was about the baby.

Sometimes—well, all the time—it was so much easier not to think about the baby.

But then, if there was no baby, Rachel would have no reason to be there.

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