His Royal Love Child by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-10T01:52:25.312000+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HE GRIMACED. “As long as we are handing out apologies, I am sorry that I hurt you.”

She winced tiredly. “I really don’t want to talk about it right now.” She yawned. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk at all, but I’m just so sleepy…I’m too tired to work anything out in my head, much less discuss it. Do you mind?”

“No. Whatever you might like to think, we have a whole lifetime to work out our differences. But I am not going to pretend I did not ask you to marry me.”

“But you didn’t.”

“What?” he demanded in a dangerously soft voice.

“You didn’t ask. You told me that for the sake of our unborn baby we should marry.”

For the second time in as many days, red scorched the skin along his sculpted cheekbones. “I should have asked, but I got carried away with my delight.”

It was such an endearing admission, she patted his chest in approval. “No matter what happens, I’m really, really glad you’re happy about the baby.”

“Only one thing is going to happen. We are going to marry.”

“I’ll think about it. That’s the best I can do, right now. I mean it. My mind is in a muddle and I feel like I have the flu, and I’m so tired, I could fall asleep standing up.”

“Then it is a good thing you are lying down. I will look into an effective remedy for your morning sickness, but for now I will get you some crackers and weak tea. My marketing director said that was something that used to help her.”

He carefully laid her back against the pillows and then got up to leave.

He came back a few minutes later and cajoled her into eating half a dozen saltines and drinking a glass of water. Afterward, she slipped into sleep, secure in the fact that Marcello was watching over her and their baby.

When she awoke two hours later, Marcello’s warmth surrounded her. It felt so good that she didn’t move, not wanting the sensation of peace and safety to end.

“You are awake?” he asked from behind her.

“Yes, how did you know?”

“Your breathing pattern changed.”

“Oh.”

“My mother has invited us to have dinner with her tonight.”

She went stiff with shock. “Your mother?”

What had he been doing while she was sleeping, calling newspapers and making announcements?

He turned her to face him. “My mother. She is ecstatic about the baby, but equally thrilled I am finally remarrying.”

“You told her about the baby? You told her that we were getting married?” Every trace of lingering sleepiness vanished in the face of his revelations.

“We are close. She would be hurt if I did not tell her.”

“But I never said I would marry you!”

“You will.”

Danette took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “You are so darn arrogant.”

“It runs in the family.”

“No doubt.”

“So, you will come to dinner and make my mother happy?”

“I don’t know if I’ll make her happy or not, but I would like to get to know her.” She only wished

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