Penniless and Secretly Pregnant by Jennie Lucas

Author:Jennie Lucas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-07T18:07:08+00:00

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A moment before, entering the house, Leonidas had looked at Daisy’s lovely, distant face as she’d stood half in shadow. For the first time, he’d questioned whether he’d done the right thing, offering her painting at the charity fundraiser without her knowledge or permission.

But the idea of Daisy giving up her dreams was unbearable to Leonidas. Whether her painting was actually worth a million dollars, or a hundred, he didn’t care. He was accustomed to his own despair, but a world where a warm, loving woman like Daisy had no hope was a world he did not want to live in.

So he’d taken the painting from the guest room, and offered it to the charity’s auction committee. He’d known if the painting was the last item up for auction, that at least a few people in the audience, after imbibing champagne all night, would assume the painting was an unknown masterpiece, and that others, seeing the bidding war heat up, would not want to be left out, and would swiftly follow suit.

Leonidas would never forget the look on Daisy’s beautiful face when her student painting had sold for a million dollars. Not until the day he died.

As they’d left the grand hotel, he’d gloried in the successful outcome of his plan. But she’d been silent all the way home, refusing to meet his eyes. He’d started to have doubts. Perhaps he should have asked her permission. Perhaps—

And so he’d turned to her, as they stood alone at the base of the stone staircase. But even as he’d tried to ask, he’d been unable to look away from her.

Daisy was more beautiful than any art ever created.

Her long brown hair fell over her bare shoulders. Her full breasts thrust up against the low sweetheart neckline of her red column dress, the fabric falling gently over the swell of her pregnant belly. Her dark lashes fluttered against her cheek as her teeth worried against her lower lip, so plump and red.

In the shadows of the foyer, the sparkling light refracted in the hundred-year-old crystal chandelier, gleaming against her lips, her cheekbones, her luminous eyes.

And then she’d kissed him.

As her soft lips touched his, he felt a shock of electricity that coursed down his body, from his hair to his fingertips to his toes. His muscles went rigid. He burned, then melted.

He’d been forcing himself to abide by his promise not to touch her. But every day, every hour, he’d felt the agony of that. All he’d wanted to do was kiss her, seduce her, possess her.

But now she was kissing him.

With a rush, he cupped his hands along her jawline, moving back to tangle in her hair, drawing her close. He kissed her hungrily, twining his tongue with hers. He felt out of control, as if his hunger might devour them both. He wrenched away, looking down at her. His heart was pounding.

“Come to bed with me,” he whispered, running his hand down her throat, along the bare edge of her collarbone.

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