Seven Minutes In Heaven_A Standalone Billionaire Romance by Cynthia Dane

Author:Cynthia Dane [Dane, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Billionaire Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2018-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Claire’s life was a rollercoaster of unfathomable emotions for the next five weeks. It didn’t help that said life continued down a destructive path of one sickening reveal after another.

Wish I could say that not getting the role was the worst. Ha! More like it was the easiest thing to digest since, as her agent always reminded her, there would be more roles and auditions. Failing to get one forgettable rom-com role was hardly the end of the world. Even if Jake had written the script with her in mind.

Fuck. Jake.

He was quietly relentless in his pursuit of Claire. Whenever their paths crossed at the Carter mansion or at the one industry party they both happened to attend, he was the consummate gentleman who only asked polite questions about her career and the wedding planning. Yet when she went home, she was subjected to unsigned letters, bouquets of her favorite flowers and, if she could believe it, the occasional mixtape comprised of soundtracks to movies they both loved. He called the first one, “Thoughts of You, Set to Late ‘90s Romance.” Songs from She’s All That and 10 Things I Hate About You were at the top of the list. At least he forewent the Titanic music, even though that was how Claire felt about their mutual attraction.

Because it was mutual. Agonizingly so.

She dreamed about him almost every night. Sometimes they were simple, sweet dreams like going for walks on the beach or having dinner at the top of a building. Other times she woke up so hot and bothered from how good he felt between her legs, that she flung herself over the edge of her bed and screamed into her nearest laundry pile. No matter what, she woke up with a tightened chest and a heart that asked her to please forget about that man.

She often woke up sick. It got to the point that her mother gave her dirty looks every time Claire raced to the toilet to be sick out of one of her orifices. The fact she missed two periods in a row was chalked up to stress. The alternative was something she couldn’t bear to think about.

Until she couldn’t ignore it anymore.

Just buy it. Claire stood in the middle of a Malibu pharmacy, sunglasses on and black scarf wrapped around her head. The tabloids had run an article about Claire and Arthur planning their May-December wedding of a lifetime, and it sparked a new slew of think-pieces on the internet. Was Claire a victim? Was Arthur a predatory creep, or just a creep? Whatever happened to Carmen, anyway? Hey, had anyone seen Jake recently? Wasn’t he cute?

So Claire was not in the mood to be spotted in the family planning aisle… not buying condoms or Kotex.

Buy the fucking tests! Two missed periods, enough puke to last her a lifetime, and constant, rabid thoughts of the last man she had been with? Pregnant. She was fucking pregnant, and it wasn’t even her fiancé’s child.

It was his son’s child.

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