The Honor Bound Groom by Jennifer Greene

Author:Jennifer Greene [Greene, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 7

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S wiftly Kelly pushed open the gold-rimmed doors to the Fortune company lobby and charged toward the elevators. George, the security guard, had walked her in, but this late in the day—past six—she was hoping most of the employees had gone home. She hadn't been back inside the Fortune headquarters in a month now, and any other time she'd have loved to catch up with old friends. Tonight, though, she was not only in a hustle, but her ski parka and cranberry sweat suit and snowboots didn't exactly fit with the Fortune formal dress code. Particularly carrying a bulky satchel, Kelly figured she looked more like an aspiring bag lady than a corporate wife.

Well, there was no help for it. Glamour and women with submarine-size tummies just didn't go together, and with any luck, she wouldn't run into anyone except for Mac's secretary.

Luck was on her side. Once the elevators whooshed open on Mac's floor, she didn't see a soul until she hiked into the outer office. Ellen immediately rose from her desk chair. Typically Mac's secretary was dressed with immaculate taste, a gray-and-taupe dress, her silvery hair twisted in an elegant bun—but her smile was warm and welcoming. Kelly never had to worry about putting on the dog for Ellen—she protected Mac better than a bulldog, which was all it had taken for the two women to become friends.

"Kelly! It's good to see you. I'll get Mr. Fortune right away—"

"No, no, I didn't come here to interrupt him. I just talked with him on the phone a couple hours ago, so I know he's tied up with meetings."

"Well, yes, he is. But if he knew you were here—"

"It's okay. I didn't come to see him. I just came to drop something off." She dropped the satchel on Ellen's desk. "I'm on my way to childbirth class—originally Mac had planned to go with me, but when I heard what a horrendous meeting schedule he had today, I told him to skip it. But since I was in town, anyway … well, you know how he is. He'll go for fast food if there's no time to catch a real dinner. And he'll likely pick Mexican, because he loves it—"

"And likely hot Mexican, because he likes that even more." Ellen's eyes were already twinkling. Maybe her style and manners were formal, but she and Kelly had the same certain insider information on the boss. "And then he'll be—"

"—Sick to his stomach and cranky. So I just brought him a dinner he could microwave." Kelly didn't mention there was another package in the satchel. Mac would find it, and Ellen didn't need to know.

They'd survived a month of marriage as of today. She thought Mac deserved a reward, but what to give him was the problem. Her heart wanted to put together a romantic dinner, but her heart was increasingly, stubbornly, dumb where Mac was concerned. An intelligent, eight-month-pregnant woman shouldn't have her mind on sex all the time—or on seducing a husband who didn't want to be seduced.

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