Expecting His Billion-Dollar Scandal by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-12T14:32:04+00:00

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Within twenty-four hours, Cordelia realised that by serious Luca had actually meant boardroom-formal.

She had shown little resentment at having to prove to Luca what she knew to be the case. She was pregnant. She could have suggested taking a simple test—another one—but if he wanted to involve a consultant, then he would whether she did a thousand tests or not.

Along with the fact that he was not the man he’d said he was, she was discovering all kinds of sides to his personality that had not been at the forefront when they had had their brief, heady affair.

He was stubborn, proud, ridiculously traditional. He was also a man who expected to get exactly what he wanted and what he wanted was his child, with her as the price he would pay to achieve that.

The second the pregnancy had been confirmed, he had ushered her out into the fading sunshine, straight into the passenger seat of his low, sleek sports car and from there directly back to his mansion. Nothing had been said on the drive. He’d been thinking. She could sense that. As for the direction of his thoughts... Cordelia could only guess but, whatever she’d come up with, she had a suspicion that it would only cover part of the ground.

She’d reminded herself that it didn’t matter what he was thinking because he couldn’t force her to do anything she didn’t want to do, and what she didn’t want to do was marry a guy for all the wrong reasons.

Still, her stomach had been tightly clenched with nerves by the time they had arrived back at his house and he’d ushered her through the front door and into a kitchen that was as big as a ballroom and just as grand.

Had she decided about her father? he’d asked. Bring him over or deliver the news via phone? He would give her a night to mull it over and to digest the direction her life would now be taking. She was free as a bird to explore every nook and cranny of the house. It was, however, late. He would instruct the resident housekeeper to deliver her food to her bedroom. He, meanwhile, had phone calls to make but he would see her first thing in the morning for breakfast and they would begin their discussions about the future they would now be sharing.

If he had hoped to soothe her frayed nerves, he’d definitely gone about it the wrong way. She had barely been able to enjoy the lavish pasta meal that had been delivered to her door at a little after eight by a shy young girl who had practically genuflected as she’d revealed the elaborate meal she had wheeled in on a super-sized trolley.

Cordelia had tossed and turned, thinking about how she was going to handle the forthcoming conversation.

Now, here she was, summoned by the very same shy young girl who had delivered her meal the previous evening and taken through the vast, echoing mansion to

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