One-Night Pregnancy by Lindsay Armstrong

Author:Lindsay Armstrong
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Romance & Sagas, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780263877915
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
Published: 2010-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT WAS the sound of a car driving away that broke the spell for Bridget—that

long, long moment when she was mesmerised by what he’d said, what he’d

admitted, and the impact it had had on her.

‘Who…?’ she whispered.

He looked across at the departing plume of dust on the driveway behind the house.

‘Fay. If we have no dinner guests she takes the afternoon off.’

‘Oh.’

He looked at her wryly.

‘I’m just a little speechless,’ she confessed.

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‘You’ve offered me advice yourself,’ he reminded her. ‘To move on,’ he

elucidated.

‘I know, but I didn’t expect to—’ She couldn’t go on.

‘To feature so prominently in it?’ he suggested, humour glinting in his eyes.

‘No.’ She took a shaky little breath. ‘But when you put it like that, it’s terribly

tempting. It sounds like a partnership. It sounds—sensible. But that’s what it is,

isn’t it?’

He frowned. ‘What do you mean?’

‘It’s…’ She sought for the right words. ‘It’s a marriage of convenience, really.’

He didn’t speak for a long time, then said, ‘But that seems to recommend itself to

you?’

She shrugged.

‘Bridget,’ he said slowly, ‘I made some of the worst decisions of my life in a rush

of—of passion, I suppose you could say. But respect, affection, and something to

build on like a child, our child, recommends itself to me, yes.’

‘I—I still need to think about it,’ she murmured in some confusion—because his

words, while so sane, seemed to strike a little chill through her. ‘You must see

that—well, it’s the last thing I expected, and—’

‘No, I don’t think you need to think about it,’ he contradicted. ‘There can’t be any

reason why it isn’t the best solution. You’ve told me your life—career-wise,

anyway—is probably due for an overhaul. Is there anyone in your life it could

make the slightest difference to?’

‘No,’ she denied. ‘There’s no one. Apart from my mother, and whatever I do is

going to take her by surprise.’

‘Then is there any reason to deny this baby both its parents in a secure home? Is

there any reason not to put its welfare before everything else?’

Bridget turned away suddenly as his gaze bored into her. Was she thinking only of

herself now? Was the fact that Adam had so much to offer—billionaire status, in

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other words—irrelevant really? She’d accused him of dangling a carrot before her,

but perhaps that was immaterial. So what was behind her reluctance? Her own

feelings?

Or a secret, inner suspicion that she was far better off without an Adam Beaumont

who didn’t really love her, even though he respected and felt some affection for

her?

How selfish was that, though?

‘Bridget?’

She turned back at last. ‘I—maybe you’re right.’

‘Should we do it, then?’

Bridget discovered that she couldn’t speak, because a fine trembling had started

within her and had spread so that she was shaking from head to toe, shaking and

feeling quite incapable of coherence.

She was unaware that she was also paper-pale and her eyes were as dark as

emeralds.

Adam Beaumont cursed beneath his breath as he read accurately the enormous

strain she’d been under, was still under, and did the only thing he could.

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