His Merciless Marriage Bargain
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I love you, my beautiful boy.
Her eyes stung all over again, her heart so very full.
They’d come full circle, she thought, and what an astonishing circle it was. Full of love and hope and the happy-ever-after she’d thought was only found in fairy tales.
Which must mean fairy tales did come true. At least, in Venice they did.
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Ruby.
Pregnant.
Impossible. She couldn’t be. They’d used protection.
He could still remember how he’d felt when he’d kissed her. When he’d heard her soft sigh of surrender. How she’d shuddered, crying out with pleasure in his arms. How he’d done the same.
And she’d been a virgin. He’d never been anyone’s first lover. Ares had lost his virginity at eighteen, a relatively late age compared to his friends, but growing up as he had, he’d idealistically wanted to wait for love. And he had, until he’d fallen for a sexy French girl the summer after boarding school. It wasn’t until summer ended that his father had gleefully revealed that Melice had actually been a prostitute, bought and paid for all the time. I did it for your own good, boy. All that weak-minded yearning over love was getting on my nerves. Now you know what all women are after—money. You’re welcome.
Ares’s bodyguard closed the car door behind him with a bang, causing him to jump.
“Sir? Are you there?”
Turning his attention back to his assistant on the phone, Ares said grimly, “Give me her phone number.”
Two minutes later, as his driver pulled the sedan smoothly down the street, merging into Paris’s evening traffic, Ares listened to the phone ring and ring. Why didn’t Ruby answer?
When he’d left Star Valley, he’d thought he could forget her.
Instead, he’d endured four and a half months of painful celibacy, since his traitorous body didn’t want any other woman. He couldn’t forget the soft curves of Ruby’s body, her sweet mouth like sin. She hadn’t wanted his money. She’d been insulted by his offer. She’d told him never to call her again.
And now…
She was pregnant. With his baby.
He sat up straight as the phone was finally answered.
“Hello?”
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HIS MERCILESS MARRIAGE BARGAIN
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