He agreed to give her his genes. He didn’t expect to lose his heart…Here comes THE BABY PROJECT by Miranda Liasson…
About
THE BABY PROJECT
Liz Kingston spends her life delivering babies
and longs for one of her own. All she needs is someone with fabulous genetic
material. Who better to ask than her sexy ex-fling, who has no interest in ever
settling down or being a father.
International
correspondent Grant Wilbanks loves danger and travelling the world. But nothing
in all this Brit’s experience could have prepared him for the way a torrid
affair with Liz makes him feel. When she asks for his assistance, he figures he
can help her out with a simple donation. No strings, no emotions,
just…test-tube science.
But this
simple favor gives them both more than they ever bargained for. Grant agrees to
her terms, but stepping away gets harder and harder because the more time they
spend together, the more he finds himself falling…and losing the battle to
safeguard his heart.
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Excerpt:
Liz wanted him for the most unflattering reason:
because she knew he’d flee without a doubt. “So you want me to donate my
sperm—into a test tube?” Grant could hardly say it. He could hardly believe he
was having this discussion. The idea was utterly ludicrous.
“This would be a one-time thing, the perfect
arrangement. You’d give your sample and walk away. Easy-peasy.”
“You mean create a child and walk away?” Somehow,
his brain felt numb. He was having difficulty wrapping his head around it.
“Well, I wouldn’t want you to think of it like
that. You’d donate a sample and I’d do the rest. You’d do it as a favor to me.
No strings attached. No responsibilities, no worries, and no claim to
fatherhood. There’d be no need to tell anyone that you’re the father. And
Dottie will be moving away soon, so there’d be no need to say anything to her,
either. You’d just go back across the world to your job and forget about me.
Simple, yes?”
He struggled not to physically wince at her words.
How little she thought of him. But then, he’d given her no other way to think.
He’d been a no-show. He plowed his fingers through his hair. God, he should never
have come here. What had he been thinking, getting tangled up with her again? The
intensity of his feelings for her had caught him by surprise—all it had taken
was one glance at those big, dark, pleading eyes, her lovely full lips, her
vivaciousness, her compassion, her sarcasm…
He’d known he was in trouble from the second she’d
tossed her tea at him. The same stirring, the same wanting that he’d fought so
hard to forget, it had all come avalanching back.
And God help him, he wanted her now, just as he had
on all those hot, humid African nights. Yes, he’d admit it—he’d wanted to see
her. To know how she’d been. To say he was sorry.
What a fool he was to think that that would be
enough.
Yet what could he really offer her? He was at the
top of his game as a reporter, recognizable around the world, always ready to
go anywhere at a moment’s notice. He had no family, no home. He was as
domesticated as a Bengali tiger.
“So will you
consider it?” she asked.
He opened his mouth to say no.
“I desperately want this, Grant. It’s my last
chance to become a mother.”
Damn
her for turning to him with those big doe eyes, with that pleading look that
gutted him. That had the effect of rendering him utterly helpless. If he had
any sense at all, he’d flee into the house and take cover immediately.
This seemingly simple request was surely fraught
with a million complications. If he was wise, he’d simply say no immediately
and cut this ridiculous discussion off at the pass.
He tried to avoid eye contact but like a wreck on
the side of the road, he couldn’t turn away.
The answer was no. It would always be no. But he
couldn’t bear seeing the hopeful expression she wore.
One look at her and he understood down to his
marrow exactly what he was seeing in her eyes. Longing, yearning, desperation.
She was asking him for something so simple and yet so life-changingly complex.
He’d have to disappoint her, of course. He’d be out
of his mind to say yes. The word no
formed in his throat, one breath away from being expelled through his lips.
“Let me think about it,” he found himself saying
instead.
Miranda Liasson loves to write stories about everyday people who find love despite
themselves, because there’s nothing like a great love story. And if there are a
few laughs along the way, even better! She’s a Romance Writers of America
Golden Heart winner and an Amazon bestselling author whose heartwarming and
humorous small–town romances have won accolades such as the Gayle Wilson Award
of Excellence and have been Harlequin Junkie and Night Owl Reviews Top Picks.
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