Executive Mother-To-Be by Nicola Marsh

Author:Nicola Marsh [Marsh, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Nate staggered from Kris’s house like a drunk, the half glass of wine he’d had sloshing around his stomach till he thought he’d throw up.

Kris was pregnant.

He was the father.

Straightening, he glanced back at the house, his heart clenching at the sight of the woman carrying his child silhouetted against an upstairs window before she quickly closed the blinds.

He’d known something was different lately.

She’d been too withdrawn, too accepting of his proposals the last couple of weeks, agreeing to practically everything he’d put forward without so much as a minor skirmish or argument.

He’d attributed it to their new-found truce, and in a way he’d been too happy to question it. Building a strong working relationship with her had been rewarding, fostering a friendship even more so.

He loved the way they were on the same wavelength. He’d have an idea, she’d put the finishing touches on it. He’d propose an amendment, she’d sanction it. They were a great team, and he could envisage RX moving forward into the upper echelon of Australian TV at a rate of knots.

But it was more than that.

He loved her quicksilver smile, the triumph in her deep blue eyes when they made an idea happen, her loud laugh when RX’s latest comedy series hit the top of the ratings. He loved her fierce independence, and now all that was about to change, courtesy of him.

She was carrying his child.

Hell.

Bracing himself against the front fence, he took a deep breath, the crisp, bracing Melbourne air filling his lungs, hopefully clearing his head.

He couldn’t do this.

No matter how much he liked Kris, he couldn’t be the man she wanted.

Taking a chance on fatherhood was a risk he wasn’t willing to take.

Releasing the fence, he turned away from her house and strode down the street towards his car, his long, angry steps eating up the pavement.

If hearing Kris’s news had shocked him, it had nothing on the bolt of disappointment when he’d realised he couldn’t be the father she wanted for her child—yet for one brief, crazy moment when she’d first told him he’d had a startling vision of the two of them together, his arm around her while she cradled their baby.

Irrational, stupid and beyond belief, the absurd surge of hope that their one incredible night together could’ve resulted in a baby had thrilled him before he’d bolted, running from his demons.

He didn’t want to be a father.

Reaching his car, he slammed a hand against the bonnet, hating the painful memories slashing through the fog of confusion caused by Kris’s revelation.

Could he take a risk again?

No, he couldn’t do it.

With his head pounding with unanswered questions, Nate gunned the engine and slid away from the kerb.

He needed time to think, time to get his head around the fact he’d fathered a child, and what on earth he was going to do about it.

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