Their Baby Bargain. Marion Lennox

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      Coming back here hurt like hell!

      ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, get out there and eat your pizza,’ he told his older, wiser face. ‘I don’t know why on earth you’re bothering with this kid—with a baby!—but if you must, you must. Just organise her a life and then get out. Take your car and ride off into the sunset. Fast.’

      Because any other way would lead to…what? Emotional attachment? Pain he’d sworn never to experience again.

      No. He couldn’t face that.

      And then he heard a horn sound at the gate, and a cow lowing in the distance as it was forced to move aside for the taxi. Here, then, was dinner. And nappies. And domesticity.

      ‘It’s just for a week,’ he told himself harshly. ‘And then you leave!’