The Cost of Claiming His Heir by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-02T15:23:32+00:00

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‘It is what?’

‘A slow cooker,’ Becky explained with a patience she was fast losing.

‘How does it work?’

She shook her head, amusement suddenly replacing the exasperation. Every kitchen item she’d looked at in the Trapani Department Store Emiliano had brought her to had been met with questions. It was like going shopping with an overly curious toddler. Except Emiliano was a fully-grown man who’d never cooked a meal in his life. ‘It cooks food slowly. It means I can chuck stuff in it before I go to work and then it will be all cooked and delicious when I get home.’

‘I’ll hire you a chef.’

‘I don’t need a chef. I need a slow cooker.’ And she needed to find a way to at least contribute towards all the stuff he was buying for her.

If she’d realised he was taking her to a department store that only catered for the filthy rich she’d have insisted on going to one that catered for the opposite end of the financial spectrum. It wasn’t until she’d sat on a sofa so comfortable she imagined it was used up in heaven and then looked at the price tag and almost had a heart attack that she’d understood just how astronomically expensive it all was here. She’d jumped off it and was on the hunt for a cheaper one—fat chance, she’d quickly learned—when Emiliano had appeared at her side and smugly told her it was hers. When she’d tried to get around his generosity by refusing to look at bedroom furniture, he’d fixed her with a look and said if she didn’t choose stuff for herself, he would choose for her. When she’d then begged him to take her somewhere cheaper, he’d fixed her with that same look and said, ‘I will not have the mother of my child putting up with second-rate stuff when I can afford the best.’

‘But I don’t need Egyptian cotton sheets with a thousand threads,’ she’d protested.

‘You might not, but I do.’ He’d then put his mouth to her ear and added, ‘Believe me, bomboncita, I will be sharing the sheets with you whenever I can.’

She’d had to press her thighs together to counteract the throbbing warmth his seductive words had roused and hoped no one could see the flush of colour staining her cheeks. The plan for him to take her shopping had been delayed by two days as, other than taking the dogs for long walks together, they’d found it impossible to drag themselves out of bed.

They had been the most heavenly days of her life.

They moved on from the slow cooker—Emiliano patted it to let the poor sales assistant tasked with helping them know they wanted it—and, after selecting a coffee machine, Becky found the utensils. She laughed to find a fish slice here cost as much as a slow cooker would have done in a reasonably priced store.

‘Why don’t you already have these things?’ Emiliano asked while Becky dithered over which knife set she wanted.

‘I lived

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