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She’s carrying the Rossini baby

Will she become the billionaire’s bride?

Restoring his faacy is all that’s i ballerina Ruby Martin teht of fiery pleasure! Yet when sweet Ruby confesses she’s pregnant, Matteo de between thenore his desire for Ruby, too?

Experience the dranancy romance!

“I’nant,” Ruby blurted

“You’re what?” Matteo said, the words hehi his head

He was at the —somehow His hands were in his hair, on his face, in fists on the glass He spun around

“How can you be? Didn’t we Weren’t you”

He paced again—to the bathrooather into his hands and splashed it on his face He stared at himself in the mirror

A father? That wasn’t the face of a father!

He wasn’t cut out for that He wasn’t even cutting his own path in life—he hadn’t filled his father’s shoes in business—nevera kid of his own He could never be a father, not now, like this

He walked back out She was still there, standing exactly as he’d left her

Dear God, what had he done?

Silent, soulful sobs began to rack her body He thought of his mother’s face, his father’s smile, the mess he’d made of his life

And this wo a life between them

Unable to sit still without reading, Bella Frances first found roe of twelve, in between deadly dull knitting patterns and recipes in the pages of her grandazines An obsession was born! But it wasn’t until one long, hot sulish literature, that she fell upon the legends that are Harlequin books She has occasionally lifted her head out of the barmaid, financial adviser and teacher, as well as to practice (but never perfect) the art of rown-up) cherubs

Bella lives a very energetic life in the UK but tries desperately to travel for pleasure at least once a month—strictly in the interests of research!