Secretly Pregnant by the Tycoon by Bella Mason

Author:Bella Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-02-24T14:50:20+00:00

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Matt was seated in the lounge, elbows on knees, head dipped down. He knew this house could be everything he needed but, as it stood now, he didn’t enjoy coming back here. This was his parents’ home, not his. They were both gone. He could speak to neither of them. Couldn’t tell them about his baby or his plan to marry Hannah. He wanted to be the perfect father, but he didn’t know what that was. A stolid family man, just like his father? He didn’t want that for his child, but he didn’t know anything else.

It looked as though, at any moment, his mother would walk into this place to talk about some charity fundraiser or other. That his father would pour a scotch and retire to his office to work some more, without a smile or any acknowledgement that he was happy to see his son. But they wouldn’t. And this house reminded him of them. They were gone. All he had was Sarah.

Feeling Hannah’s presence, he looked up to see her enter the room with a box in her hand.

‘There’s a lot of stuff here. Not a lot of you, though,’ Hannah said.

‘I haven’t spent much time here since leaving boarding school. After school, Alex and I shared an apartment while we studied.’

‘Is that where you started Command Technologies?’

‘Yes. Having Alex’s buy-in, it was easy to attract investors and the capital I needed. I’m good at leveraging what I have.’ He was doing the same thing now. Maybe Hannah would be able to turn this house into a home for them. ‘What’s that?’

‘Photographs. The drawers and cupboards were empty except for this. I was wondering if you’d like to take it with you?’

Of course they were empty. Sarah had wanted very little from here, having inherited the country manor, which she’d promptly sold, unwilling to move away from her own home. Matt had had people come in to remove what had been left. All of it had either been donated to various charities or auctioned off. He thought his mother would have approved. He didn’t recognise the box, though.

He fought the urge to lean into Hannah as she sat beside him, pulling off the lid.

‘You were always a heartbreaker, weren’t you?’ she said lightly, handing the pictures over. His body tensed. ‘Are these all your family pictures?’

‘They must be.’ They hadn’t taken pictures often and, when they had, it had been a planned-out affair. After Matt and Sarah had been sent off to boarding school, the opportunities for such things had become fewer.

‘It’s like it’s you but not you,’ she said from beside him. ‘They’re so cold.’

He took the pictures, looked at the first one and threw it back into the box, shutting the lid firmly.

‘Do you want to talk about it?’ Her voice was tentative.

‘Do I want...? No, Hannah, I don’t,’ he said sharply. ‘This doesn’t concern you.’

‘Matt...’

‘Are you done snooping? You were supposed to be taking a look at this house to see if it could suit our family.

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