One Little Indiscretion by Joss Wood

Author:Joss Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-11T19:24:27+00:00

Six

In the small office Carrick had allocated to her at Murphy’s International, Sadie sat back in her chair and glared at her monitor. She had a ton of work to do, but she’d lost her ability to concentrate.

Carrick had strolled into her brain, plopped himself down and refused to leave.

Dammit.

Sadie pushed her laptop away and placed her arms on the desk, resting her chin on her fist. In a little more than a month her world had been flipped on its head, the plan of her life rewritten and reimagined.

Who knew that when she’d taken this job, a few scant weeks later she’d find herself pregnant and crazy obsessed over a man who made her blood sing?

Sadie thought back to her conversation with Hassan and, forcing herself to be as unemotional as possible, remembered his thoughtful comments on her situation. Was Carrick simply not good for Tamlyn or was he not good to her? Were Boston society’s perceptions fair?

In Carrick, she’d seen no trace of the man who’d treated Tamlyn badly, who was verbally abusive, who thought the sun dimmed when he sat down.

Carrick was tough, sure—he had to be to run a multinational, successful business like Murphy’s—and he took no prisoners, but so far, she hadn’t seen the jerky man Tamlyn had told her about. Not in the way he spoke to his staff, his brothers, his friends.

Her.

Sadie sighed. Maybe she was hoping he wasn’t the man Tamlyn and Beth said he was; maybe she wanted him to be a better version of himself with her; maybe she was seeing Carrick naively. He was the father of her unborn child, the man who took her from zero to horny in six seconds flat. It was natural for her to want to see the best in him.

And she couldn’t help remembering that she’d also only seen the best side of Dennis before the wedding. It was only when they were back in Boston, juggling the demands of two successful careers, both traveling internationally, when the ugliness started to creep in.

Like all things, it had started small...

She desperately wanted to believe that Carrick wasn’t another Dennis, that she wasn’t misjudging him. Would Carrick also eventually turn out to be a bastard? If she believed Tamlyn and Beth, then he would.

If she had to trust her intuition, she believed he wouldn’t.

But she’d trusted her intuition before and it had proved to be as faulty as a badly wired house.

Sadie rested her forehead on her bent arms, conscious of a headache building behind her eyes. She took a couple of deep breaths, felt her tension levels drop and told herself she was stressing about this for nothing. She wasn’t going to marry Carrick, nor fall in love with him.

If he showed himself to be a bastard to her child, she’d make sure her baby was protected.

She wouldn’t have these crazy thoughts running around her head if she hadn’t slept with Carrick a second time. But she had to be honest here; she had no intention of not having sex with him in the immediate future.

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