Secret Baby Scandal
Bayou Billionaires #4
By: Joanne Rock
Releasing May
1 (eBook) and May 10 (Paperback)
Harlequin Desire
Harlequin Desire
Blurb
His
proposition: pretend they’re a couple to end a scandal. But she has secrets of
her own…
Tatiana
Doucet has dealt with sexy, arrogant athletes most of her life. But Jean-Pierre
Reynaud is a whole different animal—in bed and on the field. Unbeknownst to
him, their one amazing night produced a son. Now her family’s biggest football rival is back, offering a seductive wager she can’t
refuse.
Jean-Pierre
despises the media. When rumors fly, he knows a fake relationship is the
perfect diversion for the tabloids—and Tatiana’s unbridled passion is the
perfect diversion for Jean-Pierre. But when she drops a baby bombshell, the scandal
will rock them both!
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
Son?
Jean-Pierre had taken hits
from the toughest, strongest, meanest players in the NFL. Afterward, as he lay
in the grass with his ears ringing and his vision blurred, he would struggle to
snap out of the slow-motion fog that felt kind of like being underwater.
That was exactly how he
felt walking into Tatiana’s apartment, her words slowly permeating his
consciousness along with the cry of an infant. Dazed, confused and trying to
stand up straight despite the floor shifting under his feet, Jean-Pierre stood
in her foyer and waited for her to return from wherever she’d disappeared.
“Mr. Reynaud?” An older
woman in a simple gray dress stepped into the living area to his right. “Miss
Doucet asked if you wouldn’t mind joining her in the family room. It’s just
past the staircase on the left.” She pointed the way and then went about her
business, picking up a few things in the living room.
A bright blue blanket. A
baby bottle.
Seeing that bottle was like
the second hit when you were already down.
At the same time, it was
enough to make the mental fog evaporate and get his feet moving.
Fast.
He needed answers now.
Hell, he needed answers months ago. Tatiana had done a whole lot more than
throw his career into a tailspin tonight with her unguarded remark to a member
of the press. She’d been hiding the biggest possible secret that was going to
bind their lives together forever.
“Tatiana?” Her name was a
sharp bark on his lips as he entered the spacious suite overlooking Central
Park.
Framed playbills lined the
walls along with photos of Tatiana and her family. Tatiana with her father at
her graduation from Columbia. The Doucets outside of a downtown skyscraper with
the brass name plaque of her prestigious law firm. Every picture was a reminder
of the life he might have had with her if her family hadn’t turned her against
him.
A blaze crackled in a
fireplace on the far side of the living area. And beside it, in that warm glow
of flickering light, he spotted her on the dark leather love seat, cradling a
tiny bundle of blankets to her breast. Tatiana’s dark brown curls shielded her
body as much as the blanket, the firelight making the skin of one shoulder glow
where she’d unfastened her dress to feed the baby.
Her baby.
His…son.
Something shifted inside
Jean-Pierre, his whole world tipping on its axis as everything changed
irreversibly.
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