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Lusty Billionaires Bundle
The Billionaire’s Pregnant Mistress
by Lucy Monroe
PROLOGUE
THE cold porcelain of the bathrooainst Alexandra Dupree’s forehead as she leaned against it, her sto upset in as s starved by the unpleasant moments spent bent over the sink
After a ht her body erect A se of nausea hit her, but she was able to control it Okay, as unpleasant as this new earlyeven less pleasant to perform She stared at the small white stick with all the wariness she would feel for a snake found curled around the base of the commode
Di birth control So she’d convinced herself one late period didn’t o At first she’d thought she had the flu, sure there could be no possibility she was pregnant even though the condoht on time a week later
She still didn’t understand how this could be possible, but she had too many symptoms to deny Her breasts were tender She was tired all the time She’d cried when Dimitri told her he had to spendto their Paris apartment for several days She never cried
She forced herself to do as necessary for the pregnancy test Ten es as she stared at the blue line confir she carried the child of Dimitrius Petronides
Diive vent to his frustration
“You know it is time You are thirty, heh? You need a wife, soantly, while he fixed Diround
Dirandfather He had barely survived a heart attack five days ago Die, Grandfather”
The man who had raised Dimitri and his brother since their parents’ deaths snorted “Don’t try to get around me with your charrave knowing you will do your duty by the Petronides name”
Di to die”
His grandfather shrugged “Who of us is to say ill die? But I’ as it once was Is it so much to ask you irl She’ll ive you Petronides babies”
Eyes sliding shut, the older man breathed shallowly as if his short speech had taken ive Dirandfather’s doctors wanted the old ery, but he had refused to discuss it
“Why won’t you have the by-pass operation your doctor is reco?”
“Why won’t you randchildren to look forward to, the pain of such an operation would be worth going through”
Di you won’t have the operation if I don’t marry Phoebe Leonides?”
Dark blue eyes, so much like his own, opened to stare at Dimitri with all the stubbornness a Petronides male had to bear “Yes”
CHAPTER ONE
ALEXANDRA nervously smoothed the kerchief style silk halter-top over the nonexistent bump where her baby rested under her heart
The unaccusto had allowed her to wear the sexy outfit to boost her flagging morale She turned to the side and surveyed herself in the full-length ne silk hip-hugging pants and sexy halter looked no different than it had when Dimitri had left for Greece