The Good Guy: An office romance (Creative in Love Book 3) by Nicola Marsh

Author:Nicola Marsh [Marsh, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Parlance Press
Published: 2022-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Nate staggered from Kris’s house like he’d drunk more than half a glass of wine, the alcohol he’d consumed sloshing around his stomach until he thought he’d puke.

Kris was pregnant.

He was the father.

He glanced back at the house, his heart clenching at the sight of the woman carrying his child silhouetted against an upstairs window before she quickly closed the blinds.

He’d known something had been different about her lately. She’d been too withdrawn, too accepting of his proposals the last few weeks, agreeing to practically everything he put forward without so much as a minor challenge. He’d attributed it to their new-found truce and in a way he’d been too happy to question it. Building a strong working relationship with her had been rewarding, fostering a friendship even more so.

He loved how they were on the same wave length. He’d have an idea, she’d put the finishing touches on it. He’d propose an amendment, she’d sanction it. They were a great team and he could envisage RX catapulting into the upper echelons of Australian broadcasting fast.

But it was more than that. He loved her quick smile, the triumph in her deep blue eyes when they made an idea happen, her loud laugh when their latest comedy series hit the top of the ratings. He loved her fierce independence and now all that was about to change, courtesy of him.

She was carrying his child.

Hell.

Bracing against the front fence, he took a deep breath, the crisp Melbourne air filling his lungs and hopefully clearing his head.

He couldn’t do this.

No matter how much he liked Kris, he couldn’t be the man she needed him to be.

Taking a chance on fatherhood equalled a risk he wasn’t willing to take.

Releasing the fence, he turned away from her house and strode down the street towards his car, his long, angry steps eating up the pavement.

If hearing Kris’s news had shocked him, it had nothing on the bolt of disappointment when he realised he couldn’t be the father she wanted for her child.

Yet for one, brief, crazy moment when she’d first told him he’d had a startling vision of the two of them together, his arm around her while she cradled their baby. The absurd surge of hope that their one incredible night together could’ve resulted in a baby had thrilled him before he’d bolted, running from his demons.

He couldn’t be a father.

Reaching his car, he slammed a hand against the bonnet before getting in, hating the painful memories slashing through the fog of confusion caused by Kris’s revelation.

Could he take a risk again?

No, he couldn’t do it. The pain would be too great.

With his head pounding with unanswered questions, Nate gunned the engine and drove away.

He needed time to think, time to get his head around the fact he’d fathered a child and what on earth he was going to do about it.

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