A Baby to Tame the Wolfe by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-03-26T19:57:13+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

‘WHAT THE HELL do you mean, the Smyth-Brown board still won’t let us bid on the final share allocation?’ Jack shouted. He’d had yet another sleepless night alone in his penthouse. The truth was he’d been tying himself in knots ever since tying the damn knot with Katherine three days ago.

He wanted his new wife to come to him. Wanted her to admit how much she needed him so he could forget about the devastated look in her eyes when he’d been straight with her about what he planned to offer this child.

He hadn’t lied about that, but the sheen of sadness in her expression still managed to get to him. It made him feel guilty about something he had never promised and could not change. Which made no damn sense whatsoever.

And now this! The main reason he’d decided to go for this marriage—well, one of the main reasons anyway—was to finally get the old fossils on the Smyth-Brown board to agree to Wolfe Inc’s bid for the controlling interest of the company. The original plan—way back when he’d first proposed to Beatrice—had been to use the marriage as leverage, to make them stop looking at him as a marauding corporate raider from the wrong side of the tracks and begin to see him as a settled family man they could trust.

His motives had become considerably more confused since then, thanks to his obsession with Beatrice’s sister and the idiotic decision not to use a condom. But, if he couldn’t even get this much out of the marriage, he was going to go completely insane.

‘Jack, chill out,’ Terry Maxwell murmured, completely unperturbed by his meltdown.

Terry was his right-hand man, his fixer, his consigliere and his chief financial strategist all rolled into one. Terry didn’t do deference because he’d been in Jack’s employ since Wolfe Inc had made its first million.

It had never bothered Jack before, but his temper surged when Terry added, ‘Someone leaked the fact you’re not living with your new bride. Daniel Smyth is not the only one beginning to question the authenticity of the marriage.’

‘What?’ Jack ground out the word, so furious and frustrated, he would not be surprised if steam began to pour out of his ears. ‘Who leaked it? I want them fired immediately.’

How dared that son of a bitch question his integrity, especially with women, after what the guy had done to his mother?

But, before Jack could begin to work himself up into even more of a temper, Terry said, ‘Jack, it could be anyone—you’ve been photographed coming and going from your penthouse. Perhaps the more cogent question is why aren’t you living in Grosvenor Square with your beautiful wife?’

‘That’s none of your damn business,’ Jack shot back, but he could hear the defensiveness in his voice as he strode to the windows of his thirty-fourth-floor office and glared at the view of the Shard on the opposite bank.

It wasn’t Terry’s fault he’d got into this fix with Katherine, allowing his libido and his pride to dictate his actions.

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