The Virgin's Shock Baby. Heidi Rice
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The Italian’s one-night heir
Vulnerable Megan Whittaker has orders to find out if tycoon Dario De Rossi plans to acquire her father’s business. Reluctantly, she agrees, but doesn’t expect to be so distracted by their searing chemistry that she ends up in his bed!
Dario does have takeover ambitions, but when Megan is violently punished for her night with the enemy, he feels honor-bound to protect her. They escape to Italy, but this commanding businessman soon discovers a deeper problem. Not only is Megan suffering from amnesia, meaning she believes they’re engaged and passionately in love...but she’s also carrying his baby!
‘Dario, are you even listening to me?’
He forced his gaze back to Megan’s face. Her pale skin had acquired a healthy sun-burnished glow in the last week, her cheeks now a bright scarlet hue even more tempting than that damn bikini. He wanted to lick that fluttering pulse in her collarbone so much that he could almost taste her sweet, spicy aroma on his tongue.
The way he had every night in his dreams.
Her eyes had widened. Was that trepidation or shock he could see in them, their misty green bright with stunned knowledge? Then she rolled her lip under small white teeth and everything inside him shattered. All the smart, practical, moral reasons why he couldn’t taste her seemed to explode in a cloud of nuclear fallout.
‘Stop biting your lip,’ he said, his voice a low, husky croak he barely recognised as his own.
‘Dario! Don’t speak to me like that.’
He wrapped his hands around her upper arms and hauled her to him.
Then all coherent thought fled as his lips landed on succulent skin and his hands captured the lush curves that had finally pushed him over the edge into madness.
When one night…leads to pregnancy!
When succumbing to a night of unbridled desire it’s impossible to think past the morning after!
But, with the sheets barely settled, that little blue line appears on the pregnancy test and it doesn’t take long to realise that one night of white-hot passion has turned into a lifetime of consequences!
Only one question remains:
How do you tell a man you’ve just met that you’re about to share more than just his bed?
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The Consequence of His Vengeance by Jennie Lucas
Secrets of a Billionaire’s Mistress by Sharon Kendrick
The Boss’s Nine-Month Negotiation by Maya Blake
The Pregnant Kavakos Bride by Sharon Kendrick
A Ring for the Greek’s Baby by Melanie Milburne
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Look for more One Night With Consequences stories coming soon!
The Virgin’s Shock Baby
Heidi Rice
USA TODAY bestselling author HEIDI RICE lives in London, England. She is married with two teenage sons—which gives her rather too much of an insight into the male psyche—and also works as a film journalist. She adores her job, which involves getting swept up in a world of high emotions, sensual excitement, funny, feisty women, sexy, tortured men and glamorous locations where laundry doesn’t exist. Once she turns off her computer she often does chores—usually involving laundry!
Books by Heidi Rice
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Vows They Can’t Escape
One Night, So Pregnant!
Too Close for Comfort
Mills & Boon Modern Tempted
Beach Bar Baby
Maid of Dishonour
Cupcakes and Killer Heels
The Good, the Bad and the Wild
On the First Night of Christmas…
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.
To Bryony, who made sure I gave this story the depth it deserved.
And Daisy, who talked me off the ledge a few times while I was doing that!
Dario, Megan and I thank you both sincerely.
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