The Best Man for the Job by Lucy King

Author:Lucy King [King, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781472017680
Google: 514XAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2014-06-01T04:30:00+00:00

EIGHT

Pregnant.

Hmm.

The following morning, after what had—strangely enough, given the events of the past twelve hours—been the best night’s sleep she’d had in weeks, Celia sat at the little square table in her kitchen and stared at the pile of pregnancy tests she’d bought just in case the one last night had been as faulty as the condom they’d used.

As proven by the half a dozen pairs of blue lines dancing in front of her eyes it hadn’t, and so now she was going to have to face facts.

Heaven only knew how, but overnight she’d managed to block it out. Most probably she’d been in too great a state of shock, too overwhelmed by the enormity of the news and too knackered to process it. This morning, however, she felt refreshed. A bit calmer, at least with regards to her health. Her headache had gone, and the pain and palpitations were dwindling, as if discovering the reason for them—coupled with the sheer relief she hadn’t been suffering any of the things that Marcus had suggested—had alleviated them.

Not that she was feeling all that calm about the fact that she was pregnant. No. That was making her insides churn, the coffee she’d drunk earlier and the toast and marmalade she’d just rustled up rolling around in her stomach and from time to time threatening to reappear.

What a bloody mess.

The emotional side of her was livid at the situation. At bad luck, statistics that left room for failure, and most of all with herself for not being stronger willed in that damn vegetable garden.

The rational side of her thought there was little point in being angry or trying to apportion the blame. What was done was done and she just had to deal with it. She had to put all that to one side and figure out what the hell she was going to do about it, which meant that she now had to face options she’d never expected to have. Had never wanted to have.

She could keep it. Or she could not keep it.

What a choice.

A tiny piece of her wished she didn’t have to make it. That the law, society, religion or even her own moral stance on the subject dictated what she had to do and the decision would be out of her hands.

But she squashed that piece of her because she was lucky to live somewhere where she had the choice. The same somewhere that gave her the opportunity to have a career, independence, freedom of thought and speech and deed.

If she gave her options the kind of logical consideration she gave everything—with the exception of that one crazy afternoon of hot sex with Marcus bloody Black—she’d come to the right decision. She trusted in her ability to do that. She was intelligent, confident and had a whole world of information at her fingertips. She’d research. Weigh up the pros and cons and search the depths of her heart and soul, if necessary. And then she’d make up her mind, and know that whatever she chose it would be the right thing to do.

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