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Carrying The Spaniard's Child
JENNIE LUCAS
There can be no resistance…only surrender!Waitress Belle Langtry’s night of no regrets with ruthless playboy Santiago Velazquez was never meant to be more than a sinfully sweet memory. Until fate has other plans, and Belle finds herself carrying the baby she never thought possible!Santiago has long rejected all notions of fatherhood, so Belle’s news is shocking. He might refuse to trust her, but Santiago won’t let Belle escape his claim – to her or their child! His plan? To bind Belle with his ring, and keep her in thrall to him with his touch!Secret Heirs of Billionaires
There can be no resistance...only surrender!
Waitress Belle Langtry’s night of no regrets with ruthless playboy Santiago Velazquez was never meant to be more than a sinfully sweet memory. Until fate has other plans, and Belle finds herself carrying the baby she never thought possible!
Santiago has long rejected all notions of fatherhood, so Belle’s news is shocking. He might refuse to trust her, but Santiago won’t let Belle escape his claim—to her or their child! His plan? To bind Belle with his ring, and keep her in thrall to him with his touch!
Santiago’s voice was low, controlled, but Belle felt his cold fury. He was all gorgeous on the outside, she thought. Too bad his soul was even harder than his body.
“You made your choice,” she whispered. “You abandoned us. This baby is mine now. Mine alone.”
He lifted a dark eyebrow. “That’s not how paternity works.”
“It is if I say it is.”
“Then why tell me you’re pregnant at all?”
“Because three days ago I was foolish enough to hope you could change. Now I know it would be better for my baby to have no father at all than a man like you.” She lifted her chin. “Now, get off my land.”
Growing dangerously still, Santiago stared at her, jaw tight.
“Let me tell you what’s going to happen, Belle.” As he looked at her his voice was low and deep, almost a purr. “You’re going to marry me.”
Was he crazy or was she?
“Marry you?” Belle gasped. “Are you out of your mind? I hate you!”
“I’ll admit I made a mistake, trusting you. I should have known better. I should have known your innocence was a lie. I shall pay for that…” He moved closer, with a gleam in his dark eyes. “But so will you.”
Secret Heirs of Billionaires (#ueb84b8f4-7ce5-529e-ad7c-692d4fac961b)
There are some things money can’t buy…
Living life at lightning pace, these magnates are no strangers to stakes at their highest. It seems they’ve got it all… That is until they find out that there’s an unplanned item to add to their list of accomplishments!
Achieved:
1. Successful business empire
2. Beautiful women in their bed
3. An heir to bear their name?
Though every billionaire needs to leave his legacy in safe hands, discovering a secret heir shakes up his carefully orchestrated plan in more ways than one!
Uncover their secrets in:
Unwrapping the Castelli Secret by Caitlin Crews
Brunetti’s Secret Son by Maya Blake
The Secret to Marrying Marchesi by Amanda Cinelli
Demetriou Demands His Child by Kate Hewitt
The Desert King’s Secret Heir by Annie West
The Sheikh’s Secret Son by Maggie Cox
The Innocent’s Shameful Secret by Sara Craven
The Greek’s Pleasurable Revenge by Andie Brock
The Secret Kept from the Greek by Susan Stephens
Look out for more stories in the Secret Heirs of Billionaires series, coming soon!
Carrying the Spaniard’s Child
Jennie Lucas
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
USA TODAY bestselling author JENNIE LUCAS’s parents owned a bookstore and she grew up surrounded by books, dreaming about faraway lands. A fourth-generation Westerner, she went east at sixteen to boarding school on scholarship, wandered the world, got married, then finally worked her way through college before happily returning to her hometown. A 2010 RITA® Award finalist and 2005 Golden Heart® Award winner, she lives in Idaho with her husband and children.
Books by Jennie Lucas
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Uncovering Her Nine Month Secret
The Sheikh’s Last Seduction
To Love, Honour and Betray
A Night of Living Dangerously
The Virgin’s Choice
One Night With Consequences
The Consequence of His Vengeance
A Ring for Vincenzo’s Heir
Nine Months to Redeem Him
Wedlocked!
Baby of His Revenge
At His Service
The Consequences of That Night
Princes Untamed
Dealing Her Final Card
A Reputation for Revenge
One Night In…
Reckless Night in Rio
Visit the Author Profile page
at millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/) for more titles.
To my husband, my own fairy-tale hero.
Contents
Cover (#u58ffb063-e56c-5e3e-87df-21f93e165c24)
Back Cover Text (#ub1287b7c-817f-5ba8-ad86-ff763abf0d80)
Introduction (#ucf3c85ad-6776-5661-9fb2-29b59a74775a)
Secret Heirs of Billionaires (#ucf96c72a-765f-5047-983b-e766606c7cf0)
Title Page (#u8f793878-a00f-5356-9b18-d1615abd8827)
About the Author (#u2fad7092-7e1c-5e75-9977-7d03d39b80b8)
Dedication (#u3e81a0c5-8719-5e89-98bc-480da2736849)
CHAPTER ONE (#u65de324c-effe-537f-99a0-fc8270a9798f)
CHAPTER TWO (#u241b99fb-ffee-5460-b1f9-265bbc5fee32)
CHAPTER THREE (#u2d2aab72-89e5-5b43-8b66-e1664422cd6d)
CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER ELEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)
Extract (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE (#ueb84b8f4-7ce5-529e-ad7c-692d4fac961b)
BELLE LANGTRY HAD hated Santiago Velazquez from the moment she’d laid eyes on him.
Well, not the exact moment, of course. She was only human. When they’d first met at their friends’ wedding last September—Belle had been the maid of honor, Santiago the best man—she’d been dazzled by his dark gorgeousness, his height, his broad shoulders and muscular body. She’d looked up at his dark soulful eyes and thought, Wow. Dreams really do come true.
Then Santiago had turned to the groom and suggested out loud that Darius could still “make a run for it” and abandon his bride at the altar. And he’d said it right in front of Letty!
The bride and groom had awkwardly laughed it off, but from that moment, Belle had hated Santiago with a passion. Every word he said was more cynical and infuriating than the last. Within ten minutes, the two of them were arguing; by the end of the wedding, Belle wished he would do the world a favor and die. Being the forthright woman she was, she couldn’t resist telling him so. He’d responded with sarcasm. And that had been their relationship for the last four months.
So of course, Belle thought bitterly, he would be the one to find her now, pacing the dark, snowy garden behind Letty and Darius’s coastal estate. Crying.
Shivering in her thin black dress, she’d been looking toward the wild Atlantic Ocean in the darkness. The rhythmic roar of the waves matched the thrumming of her heart.
All day, Belle had held her friend’s adorable newborn as Letty wept through her father’s funeral. By the end of the evening reception, the pain in Belle’s heart as she held the sweetly sleeping baby had overwhelmed her. Gently giving the baby back to Letty, she’d mumbled an excuse and fled into the dark snow-covered garden.
Outside, an icy wind blew, freezing the tears against Belle’s chapped skin as she stared out into the darkness, heartsick with grief.
She would never have a child of her own.
Never, the ocean sighed back to her. Never, never.
“Belle?” a rough voice called. “Are you out here?”
Santiago! She sucked in her breath. The last man she’d ever want to see her like this!
She could only imagine the arrogant sneer on the Spaniard’s face if he found her crying over her inability to have a child. Ducking behind a frost-covered tree, she held her breath, praying he wouldn’t see her.
“Belle, stop trying to hide,” he said, sounding amused. “Your dress is black, and you’re standing in the snow.”
Gritting her teeth, she stepped out from behind the tree and lied, “I wasn’t hiding.”
“What are you doing out here, then?”
