The Innocent's Shock Pregnancy. Carol Marinelli

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СКАЧАТЬ the waiter cleared their plates all Merida knew was that here was where she wanted to be—even if she found him daunting. Only it wasn’t his wealth or his financial prowess that daunted her, and it wasn’t even his reputation with women.

      It was this.

      How much she liked him.

      His utter ability to make the world disappear.

      They could be sitting in a late-night diner eating burgers and she would feel exactly as she did now—connected.

      She was telling Ethan things she had only ever told her closest friend, Naomi.

      ‘How much longer are you in New York?’ Ethan asked.

      ‘That depends,’ Merida said, and then admitted the truth. ‘I’m nearing desperation if I want to stay here.’

      She didn’t want to bring the night down with cold facts. But, as much as she loved performing in Near Miss, it paid just a tiny stipend, and her work at the gallery covered little more than the rent.

      Although there was still hope.

      ‘I’ve got an audition tomorrow morning, for a part on a prime-time television show.’

      ‘What part?’

      ‘You won’t laugh?’

      ‘I rarely do.’

      ‘A hooker,’ Merida said. ‘And a corpse. Although you might not believe it, playing a corpse does involve acting.’

      He didn’t laugh, but he did smile.

      And when he did, while looking in her eyes, even as she went to return it Merida faltered, because it made her toes curl beneath the table. How, she wondered, could he move her so with just a slight shift in that sulky mouth? It was as if he’d reached inside her and effortlessly turned up an inner flame.

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