Harlequin Western Romance March 2018 Box Set by Trish Milburn

Author:Trish Milburn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488082344
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

She hated blurting the news like that. Hated the way his face seemed to drain of color. Hated that she felt like some kind of lowlife for getting them into this predicament.

It takes two to tango.

She’d been repeating the words to herself the whole way to Southern California. It didn’t help that she’d had to lie in order to escape the clutches of her family. They thought she’d flown west to talk to a potential sponsor, which meant she’d had to drag her publicity agent into the ordeal so that Amanda could cover for her. She hated asking Amanda to lie. Thank goodness the woman was professional enough not to ask questions.

“Are you sure?”

She almost laughed. “Oh, yes.” She crossed her arms in front of herself. He hadn’t seen the pregnancy tests lined up on her counter. “I’m sure.”

He tipped his cowboy hat back, presumably so he could see her better, and she admitted the dark-haired cowboy was just as handsome as she had remembered with his sideburns and square chin. Pictures on the internet didn’t do him justice. No wonder she’d fallen into bed with him.

“How?” He shook his head, the right side of his lips tipping up into a wry grin. “I mean, I know how, but you took precautions, right?”

“Of course I did.” She placed her hands on her hips. “You were the one that didn’t use a condom.”

“I told you we should, but you were in such a dang hurry.”

She took a deep breath because he was right. She’d been the one to tell him not to worry.

“I guess it doesn’t really matter.” She shook her head. “What’s done is done, but in hindsight, it was a stupid mistake. My ob-gyn thinks I didn’t take my birth control pills regularly enough—not,” she quickly added, “that I missed any. I didn’t. I just lead a busy life, and that weekend we were testing a new car and I wasn’t on time and sometimes that can lead to trouble, or so I’ve learned the hard way.”

His shoulders had tensed even more, she noticed. It was easy to spot given the breadth of them beneath his blue-checkered shirt.

“So what are you going to do?”

Okay, so points for not getting angry with her over the birth-control thing, or calling her names or reacting like a jerk. Negative points for using the word you.

“We are going to decide that together.”

The shell-shocked look had begun to fade. He nodded, tipped his black cowboy hat back a bit more. A cowboy. That was so not her usual type, and yet here they were.

She turned, pulled up a chair and sat down across from him. The motel was a real dive. She had told herself not to feel insulted that he’d recommended it, but then she reasoned he’d been trying to keep their relationships under wraps and so had chosen a place off the beaten path. Still, the worn brown carpet and tiny little room wasn’t exactly what she was used to when traveling.

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