Название: Park Avenue Secrets: Marriage, Manhattan Style
Автор: Barbara Dunlop
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781408980439
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“Our nephew,” Reed corrected.
“Yes, of course. And there are some grandparents in the picture?”
Reed gazed at his father’s inscrutable expression. “You mean the Vances?”
“I understand they’d like to raise the boy.”
“Lucas. His name is Lucas. And we’re his legal guardians.”
“Do you think that’s wise?”
An uncomfortable feeling wedged its way into Reed’s stomach. “It’s not a matter of wise or unwise, Lucas is our responsibility now.”
“Unless the grandparents win the court case.”
“They won’t.”
His father squared his shoulders and set his jaw. “I wonder if you’ve thought this through.”
Reed waited to see where Anton was going.
“Have you considered the impact this … nephew—”
“Lucas.”
“—will have on your future children?”
And then Reed got it. And it was horrible. “Please tell me you’re not suggesting—”
“He’s not your natural-born son.”
Reed coughed out a hollow, disgusted laugh. “You’re worried about his pedigree? You’re worried that he will somehow detract from … what? Their inheritance? Will his bad breeding somehow rub off on them?”
Anton’s eyes turned to flints and he put his infamous intimidation mask in place. But it wasn’t about to work on Reed.
“I’m adopting Lucas,” Reed said firmly. “He’ll have every legal right of any other child I may or may not have in the future.”
The mask slipped. “He’d be your eldest son. The Wellington heir.”
“Yeah,” said Reed. “How about that.”
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