The Girl Nobody Wanted Lynne Raye Harris by Lynne Raye Harris

Author:Lynne Raye Harris [Harris, Lynne Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-03-04T20:10:04+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

PREGNANT.

Anna stared at the test stick in her fingers, her entire body going hot and cold and numb all at once. She was pregnant. With Leo’s child. How had it happened? How could it possibly have happened?

She blinked and fell back against the bathroom counter. Oh, God.

No. No, no, no.

It had been a month since they’d been rescued from the island. A month since she’d last seen him. As soon as they’d reached Santina, he’d left again. It had broken her heart, but it’s what she’d wanted. What she’d insisted on.

She’d returned to her home on Amanti and hidden herself away, waiting for the media attention to die down.

And it had. There’d been a little bit of a stir over their plane crash and subsequent rescue by Santina’s coast guard—but then nothing. Alex and Allegra, and their various siblings, had proven far more interesting to the collective conscious lately, thank goodness.

Leo had gone his merry way, she’d gone hers, and the press had turned their attention to the more flamboyant members of the Jackson family—and even some of the Santinas—and the fallout from the clash of families at the engagement party.

But now … this. Oh, God, this.

She’d missed Leo. She’d missed his touch, his laugh, his arrogant and cocky grin. She’d missed the feel of his body sliding into hers, the exquisite pleasure he’d given her for two days on that island. She’d missed swimming with him naked, and she’d missed lying beneath a makeshift shelter and making love during a raging storm.

She’d missed everything about being with Leo. But she’d pushed him away, shoved him from her life without so much as a backward glance. It was her fault he was gone.

She looked at the test again, hoping that she’d read it wrong, that the answer had changed somehow. It had not. And she had to tell Leo. He had a right to know. She considered, for one brief moment, terminating the pregnancy.

But she didn’t want to. Already, though it frightened her, she loved the idea of a child that was part her and part Leo. How could she not? She’d felt so adrift recently, but now she felt as if she had a renewed purpose, a reason to be the best person she could be. She would stop feeling sorry for herself and she would teach this baby everything she knew. Her baby would have the freedom to be whatever he or she wanted to be.

From this moment forward, Anna would protect her baby at all costs.

She put the test stick in a drawer. As she was turning away, she caught sight of her reflection in the mirror and stopped short. She looked tired, drawn. Her skin was golden, her eyes bright, but there was a strain in her expression that hadn’t been there before. She ran a hand over her cheeks, her forehead. There were circles under her eyes. She’d been so, so tired lately.

Now she knew why she couldn’t drag herself out of bed in the morning.

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