Salazar's One-Night Heir by Jennifer Hayward

Author:Jennifer Hayward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

ALEJANDRO SPENT THE next two weeks working day and night to free himself up for his trip to England, his multi-billion-dollar acquisition occupying the lion’s share of his time. Aware that his fiancée was swimming in the deep end and doing her best to stay afloat, he brought work home with him and had dinner with her each night rather than cast her adrift in Manhattan.

Which also allowed him to work toward his other goal of proving to Cecily she could trust him. That he was that man she’d known in Kentucky. He found himself sharing pieces of himself he rarely did in an effort to have his fiancée do the same with him. It was going to take time, but slowly, ever so gradually, she was letting down her guard. He was beginning to see glimpses of the woman he’d first gotten to know—the open, vulnerable Cecily she was at the heart of her.

It infuriated him that her father hadn’t called with an olive branch. As if he truly meant to take the Hargroves’ crime to the grave with him rather than allow it to tarnish the family name. As if he cared more about his legacy than the daughter he’d disowned.

It was tearing Cecily apart—he could see it in her expressive blue eyes when her vulnerability shone through. Seeking to provide her with a distraction, he pushed ahead with his plans to buy them a place in upstate New York. While his real estate agent searched for the ideal property, he had Cecily work with an architect to envision what her dream stables would look like. Not only had it occupied his fiancée, it had put a sparkle back in her eyes and given them a project they could work on together.

By the time they boarded the Salazar jet for the anniversary party, they had developed a workable rapport between them. Her continuing to freeze him out was another matter. It wasn’t going to work this weekend with the façade they had to perpetuate, nor was it going to close the gulf that had grown between them. And since eliminating that tension, putting his life back into its pre-Kentucky order, was his number one priority right now, he needed to solve her.

Watching her now, curled up in a chair beside him as the jet leveled out into a smooth sea of blue, he felt that familiar tug of desire. Dressed in leggings and a sweater that emphasized her soft curves, her legs curled beneath her as she reviewed the architect’s revamped drawings, it was as if she flicked some internal switch inside of him just by being in the same room.

What would she look like when she started to show evidence of their child? He imagined those lush curves grown ripe with his son or daughter, a powerfully possessive feeling assailing him, one he couldn’t even begin to articulate. She would be even more desirable, if that was possible.

He ran a palm over his jaw. Sexual frustration was not, he was discovering, a state of being he enjoyed.

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