The Icelandic Doc's Baby Surprise by Louisa Heaton

Author:Louisa Heaton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-08T18:10:49+00:00

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He watched her go, frustrated with the turn of their conversation. He’d hoped to clear the air of a few things, but instead they’d just muddied the waters somehow. The conversation should have remained light and breezy, but it had got serious quite quickly.

They both had desires here—and he wasn’t talking sexually, though that did complicate matters too. Because no matter how much he tried to ignore the feelings he had for Merry, they kept creeping back to the surface, and the fact that she was carrying his baby was making him feel all caveman-like and protective of her, too.

He’d never felt this way about a woman before. Perhaps that was why he’d been a little prickly this evening? Biting back when she’d accused him of never being committed to anything...

Because he was committed! To their baby. He was committed to providing that baby with the best life, and with two parents who would love it very much!

I’ll apologise when she comes back.

They could start the conversation over. Start afresh. They were friends—that would be easy enough. He didn’t like how it had made him feel to upset her. It was wrong. She was the mother of his child, and if they couldn’t agree right now, how would it be when the baby was here and they had to make other decisions?

When she came back to the table he stood up and watched her settle into her chair, before sitting down once more across from her. She looked a little flushed in the candlelight.

‘Are you all right?’

He needed to know that she was. They’d both had a difficult time lately, what with the scare and the whole change in circumstances for both of them. It was a lot to absorb.

She nodded, smiling.

‘I’m sorry, Merry. I didn’t mean to respond the way I did. I guess I’m just nervous.’

‘Of the situation?’

‘And of you.’

‘Me?’

‘I’ve never had someone important in my life since my parents, and yet here you are, carrying the most precious cargo. My child. And I know that you could leave at any minute. Get on a plane and disappear from my life.’ He reached out and took her hand across the table. Squeezed it. ‘You’ve become special and I never expected that.’

‘Because of the baby?’

‘Yes.’

She nodded, squeezed his hand back, then reclaimed it to pick up her glass and sip at her drink. She looked a little annoyed, not meeting his eye, and he wasn’t sure why. Hadn’t he just told her what she wanted to hear? He was being honest with her. As far as he could be, anyway.

The waiter came and took their plates and disappeared once again.

He looked at Merry. She was so beautiful tonight. In that little black dress that showed the smooth curve of her shoulders and bare neck. The twinkle of her earrings drawing the eye to her soft skin. Of course she always looked beautiful. Every man in this place probably thought the same thing.

He was stepping out into new

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