Dani Collins - Beauty And Her One-Night Baby (Once Upon a Temptation, Book 2)

From irresistible beast in the bedroom...

to father of her child!

The first time Javiero Rodriguez sees CEO Scarlett Walker after their impassioned night together, shes in labor with his baby! No matter how shocking the surprise, Javiero wont let his son grow up in a broken home like he did.

Scarlett has worked hard for independence and she cant accept empty vows. Yet the scars Javiero gained in a jaguar attack havent lessened the tycoons rugged appeal. Which means every day is a heated reminder of the pleasure they shared...and could share again!

USA TODAY Bestselling Author

Canadian DANI COLLINS knew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later, after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts, she got The Call. Her first Mills & Boon novel won the Reviewers Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews. She now works in her own office, writing romance.

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Beauty and Her One-Night Baby

Dani Collins

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ISBN: 978-1-474-09824-3

BEAUTY AND HER ONE-NIGHT BABY

2020 Dani Collins

Published in Great Britain 2020
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For Phil, Eva and your adorable boys.
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Contents

H ER WATER BROKE .

Horrified, Scarlett Walker hoped that if she didnt look it wouldnt be true. She stared at the hook on the back of the stall door where her handbag hung and prayed she was wrong.

She knew what had happened, though. There was no mistaking such an event and no, no, no. This was supposed to happen next week, at the island villa that had been her home for the last six years. Or last week, when shed been sitting vigil at her employers bedside. Anytime but today.

Not now.

Please not now.

It was a futile wish. In fact, she should have predicted this would happen. She had so many butterflies in her stomach they were knocking her baby clean out of her right before she walked into a boardroom to face a small but extremely volatile group of personalitiesincluding the babys father.

What would he say?

Shed found Javiero Rodriguez dynamic and powerful and intimidating before shed slept with him. For nine months shed been dreading and anticipating the moment when she would finally face him again.

Now she had to rush off to the hospital.

Thanks a lot, baby, she thought with a fleck of ironic hysteria. She wouldnt have to face any of them. Saved!

But how was this her life?

The Walker colors were shining brightly in her today. If there was a way to turn an everyday, natural occurrence into a trashy satire, the Walkers were there to make it happen. Scarlett wanted to sit back down on the toilet and cry her eyes out.

No time for that, though. With a sob of desperation, she fumbled her phone from her handbag and texted her best friend, Kiara.

My water broke. Help!

She pulled up the skirt she had so recently wriggled into place over her hips. Only her maternity underwear and one shoe were wet. She wrangled herself out of the unflattering cotton knickers with the stretchy front panel and discarded them in the bin.

Dont need those anymore.

Shakily, she left the stall long enough to wet a hand towel and grab a small stack of the folded ones off the shelf. Thank God it was empty in there. She edged back into the narrow stall and closed the door, then dropped the towels on the floor to blot up the puddle while she gave herself the quickest of bird baths.

She had let her doctors any day now yesterday go in one ear and out the other. Had she really expected this baby would stay inside her forever?

Kind of. Shed had so much going on that she hadnt let herself think about anything other than ensuring her healthy pregnancy. She certainly hadnt envisioned the moment when the baby would actually arriveor how that event would unfold.

Who had time for labor when she was facing a ton of work finalizing Nikos burial arrangements and continuing to manage his estate? Then there was Kiaras show in Paris. She had promised to help her with her artists statement and had somehow deluded herself into believing she could attend.

Really, Scarlett? Due next week, yet planning to fly to Paris in three?

Denial was a wonderful thinguntil it stopped working. It was screeching to a halt while she stood on the hand towels, waiting for Kiara and deliberately avoiding thoughts about how Javiero would react to everything he would learn today.

To this.

Not for the first time, she tried to will herself back in time and make a different decision. Shed been processing her employers refusal of further treatment and frustrated with certain decisions he had made with regard to his errant sons. Maybe those two men didnt deserve much consideration, given their mulish refusal to see their father in his last days, but Scarlett had been compelled to prod them one last time.