Penniless And Secretly Pregnant by Jennie Lucas

Author:Jennie Lucas [Lucas, Jennie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2020-08-07T18:07:08+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

DAISY STARED AT herself in the mirror of her pretty cream-and-pink guest suite in Leonidas’s New York mansion.

A stranger looked back at her, a glamorous woman in a red gown straight out of Pretty Woman. The dress caressed her baby bump, showcasing her full breasts, with a slit up the side of the skirt that showed off her legs. Long honey-brown hair hung thickly over her bare shoulders. Her eyelashes were darkened with mascara, her lips as red as the dress, all bought from the drugstore a few months ago. But she was wearing the scent Leonidas had bought her on their shopping excursion three days earlier. Even the shoes on her feet were new. That morning, just as she’d realized she could not possibly wear her scuffed-up black pumps with this dress, new shoes had mysteriously appeared at her door—strappy sandals covered with crystals in her exact size.

“Who are you?” Daisy said to the woman in the mirror. Her voice echoed against the bedroom’s high ceilings and white bed.

From the dog bed by the elegant fireplace, Sunny lifted her head in confusion. With a sigh, Daisy said to her, “It’s all right, Sunny. I’m all right.”

But was she?

She glanced back at her cell phone sitting on the vanity table, feeling dizzy. She didn’t just look different now. She was different.

When she’d come out of the shower an hour before, she’d anxiously checked her online bank account to see if her most recent payment, a deposit for nursing school, had cleared yet. Once that money disappeared from her account, she expected to have very little left, so she was nervous about checks bouncing if she’d forgotten anything.

But looking at her bank account, she’d lost her breath. She’d closed her eyes and counted to five. Then she’d looked at her account again.

Her bank account had the scant hundreds she’d expected—plus an extra million dollars.

Leonidas had just made her a rich woman.

Why? How could he? She’d never asked for his money! Daisy shivered in the red dress. But she knew it wasn’t for her, not exactly. It was to protect their baby, so she’d never worry or be afraid.

I will always provide for you. It’s my job as a man. You would not try to deny me that.

Especially since she’d denied him other things. Like kisses. When, her first night here, he’d almost kissed her outside her bedroom door, she’d been far too tempted. It had scared her. She’d known, if she ever let him kiss her, that she would surrender everything.

And her life had already become unrecognizable enough. She looked at herself in the ball gown. Could she really keep his money—even for her baby?

It was true she’d already quit her job. When she’d gone to the diner, her boss had been all too happy for Daisy to leave her job, no advance notice required.

“We don’t actually need an employee sitting at the register,” Claudia had confided. “But I knew it hurt your feet to wait tables, and I couldn’t fire you.

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