The Billionaire's Baby Negotiation by Day Leclaire

Author:Day Leclaire [Leclaire, Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Category, Texas, Billionaires, Women Ranchers
ISBN: 9780373768219
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2007-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

Six

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The minute the meeting ended, Joc escorted her straight to the jet. She waited until they were aboard and in their seat with their seat belts fastened before speaking.

“I’m sorry, Joc,” she said.“For what?” But he knew. She could see the bleakness of that knowledge gathering in his eyes.

“Is there anyone in your life you can trust?”

He hesitated before shrugging. “My sister, Ana.”

“Ana. The one who lives in Verdonia. How often do you get to see her?”

His expression remained impassive, but she caught the flicker of pain before it vanished behind a facade of indifference. “Whenever I feel like flying out there.”

Her heart went out to him. “You’re all alone now, aren’t you? Instead of having Ana in your corner, she’s moved thousands of miles away. She’s married to a prince and has a fabulous life. One you aren’t part of. It isn’t the two of you against the world, anymore, is it?”

“Don’t.”

He spoke just that one word, but it told her more about him than anything he’d said until this point. Anguish bled through his voice, as well as an immeasurable loneliness. He had no one. He’d cut himself off from personal connections, all because he couldn’t trust. She grieved for him, grieved for all he lacked in his life. He’d chosen that path of solitude, whereas it had been thrust on her. Even so, she had friends and neighbors and ranch hands, not to mention Claire. Until last year she’d also had her grandmother. But the main difference between them was that she trusted each and every one of those she’d included in her life. They were as close to her as family.

“We have a problem, Joc. And I don’t see an easy solution to it.”

He fixed her with his dark gaze, throwing up barriers so high and dense that she didn’t have a hope of penetrating them. “What problem?”

“If I’m pregnant, you’re going to have to let me in. And if not me, you’ll need to open yourself up to our child. Otherwise, how will his relationship with you be any different than your relationship with Boss?”

There was nothing left to say after that and Rosalyn closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. She wished she could nod off. She hadn’t slept much last night and she’d have to hit the ground running the instant she arrived in Dallas. She didn’t want to think about all the work that had accumulated while she’d been busy playing the role of billionaire’s mistress.

To her surprise she did nod off at some point, waking with a soft moan to Joc’s distinctive touch. She wanted to blame the way she responded to him on being in that helpless realm between dreams and reality. But in truth, she leaned into him, softened against him, lifted her mouth for his possession for one reason and one reason only.

She wanted him still.

She wanted him on the most visceral level possible, a level that ignored logic and common sense. A primitive, physical level that demanded a taking she could no longer have.

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