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He'd raised himself from the depths of poverty to the heights of wealth and power. But Ethan Curtis knew polite society would be forever closed to him. Unless a woman from the most exclusive social circles—namely Mary Kelley—gave him a child.
Mary was stunned by the arrogant millionaire's proposition. But she agreed to give him what he wanted to protect her family. She thought their 'lovemaking' would be as cold and heartless as Ethan seemed to be. Nothing could have prepared her for her sudden desire for this man she'd sworn to hate.
Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree.
Favourite Scene:
She put down her napkin and tried not to stare at the lush curve of his lower lip. “I won’t pretend that we’re friends, or even friendly.”
“Fine, but can you really despise me? For wanting a child?”
She laughed, shocked at how obtuse he was being. “Is that a serious question? Of course it’s understandable and wonderful to want a child—blackmailing a woman you know nothing about to get one is not.”
He leaned forward and with a trace of a growl said, “True.”
Another Fav Scene:
“What the hell happened on the flight?”
She sighed, stopped in her tracks and faced him. “A very large man decided to take a nap on my shoulder, and no amount of pushing and prodding and poking would wake him up. I was stuck in this insanely awkward position for two hours. I wonder if they have a chiropractor on the island.”
Ethan stared at her.
“What?” she asked.
“You poked someone?”
She sighed with heavy patience. “It was just with the eraser end of a pencil.” But, oh, how she had wanted to do so much more. “Little good it did. It only made him snore harder. And don’t even get me started with the lady on my right.”
“Did you poke her, too?”
“No, but I thought about it.”
My Review:
Funny. Good opening scene, the H/h are smack dab in the middle of sex, the hero has blackmailed the heroine into having his baby. She's fighting it, doesn't want to agree. She tells him a month later that she's pregnant, but she isn't, she's just buying time to get her father out of trouble. I don't understand what she really hoped to achieve by lying about the pregnancy, the most she could get away with it for would have been three months. Anyway, she ends up working for the hero and getting close to him, and perhaps getting pregnant for real this time. They have conflict over class: he's come from a trailer park and he wants to have a baby with the blue-blooded heroine to get some respect socially. Social class doesn't mean much to me, so that wasn't much of a conflict to me. I liked that the H/h got to know and like/love each other realistically, after the time they spent together.
My Rating: 3/5 stars, pretty good read.
