Penthouse Prince: A new York City Romance by Tara Leigh

Author:Tara Leigh [Leigh, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955659024
Published: 2021-06-09T18:30:00+00:00

Tristan

What was I thinking? Dumb question, of course. I’m not thinking, not when it comes to Reina. But this is a new low. I’ve always used a condom. Always. “Yes, of course. Riding bareback isn’t exactly on my list of acceptable risks.” But damn, it felt good to be inside Reina without any barrier, no matter how thin, between us. Even now, I can’t bear to pull out of her.

“Okay, that’s good. It’s not on mine either.”

When your last name is Bettencourt, a talk about the birds and the bees comes in the same breath as birth control. Not long after waking up in sticky sheets, I was taught that my sperm might as well be pellets of gold. That there are girls who will do anything to have a Bettencourt growing in their belly.

One of them is now my stepmother. Not that my father ever said it in so many words. But he doesn’t have to. I was young when my mother died, although not so young that I don’t remember their easy way with one another, the excited squeal—from both of us—that always accompanied my father’s arrival home from work. More slideshow than movie, I can replay certain moments of the life we once shared inside my mind.

Holding her hand as I walked into my first day of kindergarten. Our last Christmas together. Dance parties in the kitchen while we waited for cookies to bake. Falling asleep to the sound of her singing “Star Light, Star Bright.”

When my mother was alive, our home had been filled with joy and laughter, and I always felt safe and loved. But everything changed after her death, including my relationship with my father. He dealt with his grief by throwing himself into work. I was handed off to a series of nannies. For years, there was a detachment to the way he looked at me. Only when I was in my teens, around the time the twins were born, did that wall begin to crumble. I was pretty resentful of them at first, but then they grew on me, too. I couldn’t stay mad at two toddlers who wrapped themselves around my legs the moment I walked in the door and planted wet, sloppy kisses on my cheeks every chance they got.

The twins are definitely the best part of my father’s marriage to Claudia, which is nothing at all like the marriage he had with my mother. Claudia doesn’t squeal when my father walks through the door, and while I don’t recall any heated arguments or slammed doors, their kisses are more perfunctory than passionate. Her face lights up at the sight of diamonds, not the sound of the front door opening. A pregnancy was Claudia’s ticket into the big leagues, a new life as Mrs. Tristan James Xavier Bettencourt III.

And now here I am, my cock still sheathed within Reina, no barrier between my semen and her womb. Just a pill and a promise.

Can I trust her? Should I?

And why didn’t

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