Billionaire Grump's Baby: An Enemies to Lovers Fake Marriage Romance by Roxy Reid

Author:Roxy Reid [Reid, Roxy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

18

LUKE

I escape my kind but mind-numbingly boring uncle by saying I need another drink and heading to the bar. But the last thing I need is more alcohol. Kissing Hazel over and over again has already got me feeling half drunk.

Cooper is going to kill me.

He never responded to our email wedding invitation, so I assume he’s deep in the wilderness somewhere, collecting samples or measuring pollution levels or whatever environmental scientists do.

I mean, I’m trying to keep these kisses as G-rated as possible. But apparently Hazel got bored with behaving, because that last kiss had her threading her hands through my hair, slipping her tongue into my mouth, and pressing against me like she was the kind of bride who expected a wedding night.

I was hard in an instant.

And then the brat pulled away and winked at me.

I was halfway to hauling her off somewhere private so I could give her the kind of spanking that would teach her not to play with fire before common sense caught up with me.

God, I’m going to hell.

Maybe I do need that drink after all.

I signal the bartender.

“There you are! It’s been so hard to get you alone,” Hazel’s mom Kathy says. She has Hazel’s delicate bone structure and big brown eyes, although her own face has softened over the years, and she has smile lines at the corner of her eyes.

I wonder what Hazel will look like in thirty years. Will her smiles be etched in her face too?

Wait. Why the hell do I care what Hazel will look like in thirty years?

Hazel’s dad, Bill, stands beside Kathy, his face serious. Like Cooper, he wears his hair short, dresses plainly, and has a habit of trying to make small talk by sharing obscure science trivia.

I make myself smile, but I brace myself for the inevitable criticism. Bill and Kathy Dawson opened their home up to me more often than not in undergrad, when I didn’t want to spend holidays with my own father. Hell, one time when Dad and I were in a particularly bad fight, Cooper had let me crash with his family over Christmas. Kathy had gone out in a snowstorm to buy me a sweater that matched the one she’d already gotten Cooper, so that I’d have something to open on Christmas morning too.

It’s both the cheapest and most valuable thing anyone has ever given me.

And how do I repay them? By stealing their daughter away in a rushed wedding that screams “scandal.” They probably think I knocked Hazel up or something.

An image of a pregnant Hazel pops into my head, reclining in my bed while she gives me crap about working too much and uses my credit card to fulfill every bizarre pregnancy craving she has.

For a second, I almost smile.

Then I remember I don’t want kids and shove the image aside. I definitely don’t want kids with Hazel.

The bartender passes me a cocktail, and I sip it gratefully. I don’t know what it is, but it’s stiff and good.

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