The Tycoon's Secret Baby by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clare Connelly
Published: 2017-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Grace almost choked on a piece of papadum, she was laughing so hard.

“So Marco comes out of the hotel room, dressed in only a towel, and if you’ve ever seen Marco first thing in the morning without at least five coffees – well, you know. It’s not a good look.” Will paused to spoon some more curry into his mouth and Grace leaned back in her chair. Marco’s arm was rested along it and his hand dropped to her shoulder naturally, his fingers curling over her skin. She tilted her head to him, her eyes skimming his face. He was smiling too. The sight of it made every cell in her body sing.

“It was not, as I recall, first thing in the morning,” Marco said with mock-affront, winking at Grace to make his mood obvious. “It was the middle of the night.”

Thump, thump, thump. Could he hear her happy heart tap-dancing in her chest?

“It was 5am. And this guy we’d been out to dinner with – what was his name? Ronald?”

“Regan,” Marco corrected with a laugh.

“Right. Regan, unbeknownst to me has booked on our floor. We’d had a few whiskies to finish the night and obviously he’s kept the party going in his room. At some point, he’s decided to smoke a pack of cigarettes and the damned smoke alarms have gone off. The whole floor’s saturated.” Will was laughing so hard the words were coming out as a wheeze.

“And there’s Marco, dressed in a towel, in the middle of the hallway, demanding to know what was going on, and who was responsible. You were furious!”

“Everyone was furious,” Marco pointed out, squeezing Grace’s shoulder; her stomach dipped.

“But you were incensed. As if you couldn’t believe anyone would dare do something like that to you.”

“Suffice it to say, we did no further business with Regan Halt.”

“Yeah, you put a halt to that all right.” Will shook his head and reached for his wine, sipping it and then laughing some more. “You like things to go to plan.”

“That’s because they generally do,” Marco agreed with a banal lift of his shoulders.

Grace angled her head towards him, studying his profile. Was she another part of his life that hadn’t gone to plan? Perhaps initially, but now? She was fitting in with everything he wanted. His plan was her blueprint. The thought brought a small flicker of a frown to her face.

She didn’t like to think of them in those terms. As though she’d lost her own agency in a rush to please him. And yet, didn’t he deserve that? She’d taken their child and cut him deeply with her decision to keep him from their lives. Wasn’t the reparation hers to make?

Besides, she was getting almost everything she wanted, wasn’t she?

Confusion filled her anew and it was that moment when Marco turned to look at her, the smile still on his face as his gaze locked to hers. He skimmed her troubled face and leaned forward, pressing a kiss to her lips. A

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