The Nurse's One-Night Baby by Tina Beckett

The Nurse's One-Night Baby by Tina Beckett

Author:Tina Beckett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-02-03T13:39:06+00:00


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Serena waited for him to say something. To respond to what she’d just told him. She was horrified that she’d sat here in his office and had sex with him instead of having the hard conversation she’d come here to have. But she never quite thought straight when she was around him. And to have blurted out that she was pregnant so soon after making love with him again... None of this was happening the way she’d wanted it to.

But now that she’d said it, she couldn’t take the words back.

He blinked as if not quite sure what to say. “Sorry?” He shifted her on his legs, easing out of her.

She hated the feeling but understood that he was probably in shock. Maybe she should backtrack and try this again.

“I... I...” She took a deep breath. “I haven’t been feeling quite right for the last couple of weeks, and I couldn’t figure out why.”

“You didn’t look like you felt at all well when we were running. And add that to what you said before we parted ways...”

Her teeth scraped against each other a couple of times as she tried to drum up the courage to say again what she needed to say. “I couldn’t get up the nerve to tell you what was wrong that day.”

“And now you want to.”

He looked confused. Maybe Toby hadn’t actually heard what she’d said a minute ago. She hadn’t exactly shouted out the news. “Yes. As I said, I wasn’t feeling well and realized my cycle was later than it had ever been. So... I decided to take a pregnancy test.”

“I see.”

He was calm. Too calm.

A sense of horror and foreboding rushed over her. “I’m pregnant. And as you now know, Avery is not the father. Although I’m sure you might wish he were.”

“You’re pregnant?”

The words were said with that same strange calmness even as her brain was still busy staggering back to its feet after what they’d just done together.

Why was he staring at her as if he still didn’t understand what she was saying?

He repeated the words once again before he blinked. “Oh, hell. I’m the father?”

This time his voice wasn’t monotone, and although he hadn’t shouted it at her, his words nevertheless struck her with the force of a sledgehammer.

She scrambled off him. “I’m so sorry. I just thought you should know.” She licked her lips as she stood there in complete disarray, the fact that she was naked from the waist up barely registering with her. “I should never have...” She motioned at the chair he still sat in.

Should never have what? Let him make love to her?

Yes. Exactly that. Except she’d been so caught up in his words as he said he could never forget that night, or her, that she couldn’t think clearly. She’d been bewitched by him. Just like she had been at the bar in Cozumel. Only none of that was his fault. She never should have let him make love to her before he knew the truth about why she’d wanted to speak to him.



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