by Jillian Dodd
“I want to learn more about you. Tell me.”
“There is not much to tell. I had a crappy childhood. Moved out with some guy as soon as I could and have been on my own ever since. I was working as a cocktail waitress, and like everyone else who comes to Hollywood, I was waiting for my big break.”
“You want to be an actress?”
“I thought so. Now, I don’t know what I want.”
“Your relationship with the man with money, is it over?”
“It can’t be because I quit my job for him and have nowhere to go. So basically, I’m fucked.”
“Join the club,” Juan says, downing his champagne and pouring himself another. “My father is gravely ill. I am the eldest son, and it is my duty to take over our business holdings and provide for my family when he passes. Which will be soon. That means I must retire from polo, a game I have spent my lifetime perfecting—the game I love.”
“You’re quitting polo?” I ask, a little devastated. I was hoping to go to a match with him.
“Yes. I must stop my playboy ways, marry in the church, and produce an heir. Considering my last girlfriend dumped me for a younger man and my ex-wife did not succumb to my charms a second time, I am going to fail my family. It may sound silly to an American, but in my culture, family is everything. And I have been given a great responsibility.”
“I’m pregnant,” I blurt out. Shit. Why did I just say that?
He squints his eyes, thinking. “And the rich man is the baby’s father?”
“This makes me sound horrible, but I met this man just after I learned I was pregnant. I was devastated. This guy was all VIP and I needed an escape from daily life. I only planned on it being a one-night stand. But he swept me off my feet, took me on his private jet to parties around the world. I got caught up in it and in him. Then some girl who broke his heart like ten years ago, who was still married, came back into his life and wanted to get back together with him. In my mind, I was protecting him from her. By that time, I had missed work, got fired, and got kicked out of my apartment. I was desperate, so I told him it was his. The baby’s real father was a bartender. He doesn’t even know I’m pregnant and wouldn’t want to have anything do with the baby.”
“What’s his heritage?”
“The baby’s father?”
“Yes.”
“Um, his father was from Ecuador and his mother was from Argentina.”
“Interesting. How far along are you?”
“Eleven weeks,” I admit. “That’s the other thing. I don’t think the guy with money will be thrilled to learn I am pregnant with someone else’s child. He’s kind of an ass.”
“I’m kind of an ass, too,” Juan says, laughing. “Or so I am told. But I’m going to change that. It is important to me.”
“You’re one of the nicest human beings I have ever met,” I tell him, sincerely.
“Then clearly, I have you fooled,” he teases. “I like that about you.”
I smile. He’s flirting with and teasing me. It’s like everything he does, every breath of air he takes, is part of one long stretch of foreplay.
He asks the waiter guy to bring me some sparkling water and a lime. Then he says, “Will you please excuse me?” He points to the chaises on the sun deck. “Why don’t you relax? I will be back momentarily.”
I wait for a whole lot of moments and start wondering if he’s jumped ship.
Guess that’s what I get for being honest.
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Books by Jillian Dodd
The USA TODAY bestselling series,
The Keatyn Chronicles®
Stalk Me
Kiss Me
Date Me
Love Me
Adore Me
Hate Me
Get Me
Keatyn Unscripted
Aiden
Hollywood Love Series
(A Keatyn Chronicles Spin off)
Fame
Power
Money
Sex
Love
That Boy Series
That Boy
That Wedding
That Baby
The Love Series
Vegas Love
Broken Love
Spy Girl Series
The Prince
The Eagle
The Society
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jillian is a USA TODAY bestselling author who writes fun romances with characters her readers fall in love with, from the boy next door in the That Boy trilogy to the daughter of a famous actress in The Keatyn Chronicles to a kick-ass young assassin in the Spy Girl series.
Jillian lives in a small Florida beach town, is married to her college sweetheart, has two grown children, and two Labrador Retrievers named Cali and Camber. When she's not working, she likes to travel, paint, shop for shoes, watch football, and go to the beach.