Dressed in Yellow: BBW Contemporary Romance (10 page)

Epilogue

Aiva touched her rounded tummy, smoothing her hand along the white satin. She felt her husband step close to her, saw a flute of bubbling amber liquid in a champagne glass under her nose.

“Sparkling cider,” he said, voice deep with amusement. “The caterer evidently gets a lot of request from old country brides for sparkly cider rather than champagne during their wedding dinners.”

Aiva made a face, but she’d been to one too many pop up weddings… where the community marveled nine months later at the virility of the groom to get his bride with child on their wedding night. Yeah, right. A polite fiction that everyone was satisfied with- as long as there was, indeed, a wedding.

She turned in his arms, careful not to spill the cider. “It will be interesting to see how many days from now I give birth. My father will be counting you know.”

Leon grimaced. “May you go two full weeks overdue, then.”

Aiva laughed, and kissed her husband.

And welcomed their first child, a baby girl, forty-one weeks later.

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No. No no
 no no—

Leah slid along the wall, trying to reach the door. Marcus paced her, like a big, graceful cat tracking his prey. And that’s what she felt like—prey.

“Mr. Hawkins—”

“Marcus.” He stepped between her and her goal, crossing his arms “How many times do I have to tell you? I don’t like formality.”

She loved it, especially with him. It kept him at a distance. Untouchable. She needed him to be untouchable. Former bad boy, gorgeous heartbreaker—God, she couldn’t survive another heartbreaker.

“I can’t,” she said. “You’re my boss, and it’s such an important event, I wouldn’t—” She cut herself off.

“Wouldn’t what, Leah?” The way he said her name made her shiver. “Wouldn’t want to embarrass me?”

He moved to her and leaned in, those dark blue eyes intense, so close his breath warmed her cheek. Too close. She could smell his cologne, a mix of sandalwood and some warm musk that made her want to sniff his neck—and the rest of him. While he was naked.

Stop it.

His deep voice wrapped around her. “You have too much class to embarrass me. Do you have a gown suitable for black tie?”

She swallowed, incredibly aware of him. “No,” she whispered.

“I will have something sent to your apartment.”

Oh, God.

“Mr. Hawkins—”

“Go finish the letters, then head home, Leah. You have a party to get ready for.”

“But—”

“I will have a car sent for you at seven.”

“But—”

He caught her around the waist and turned her to the door, letting his hands slide down to her hips before he gently pushed her out of his office and shut the door in her face.

Shit. Holy shit.

Leah had a date with her boss.

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