A Camden's Baby Secret
Love and the reluctant mogulA tragic accident has left software mogul Callan Tierney guardian to a young girl and caregiver to her elderly grandparents. But ‘family man’ isn’t Callan’s strong suit and he chafes at his new responsibilities. Until he reluctantly accepts the help of Livi Camden – a one night stand who’s haunted his dreams ever since…Two months ago, widow Livi Camden finally let loose with one exotic Hawaiian night that left her breathless…and pregnant. Now, on a mission to make amends to a family her forbears have wronged, Livi finds herself helping her one-time tropical lover. As passion re-ignites, she hesitates to reveal her pregnancy. Is Callan willing to add husband and daddy to his list of family duties?
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Love and the reluctant mogul
A tragic accident has left software mogul Callan Tierney guardian to a young girl and caregiver to her elderly grandparents. But âfamily manâ isnât Callanâs strong suit and he chafes at his new responsibilities. Until he reluctantly accepts the help of Livi Camdenâa one-night stand whoâs haunted his dreams ever since...
Two months ago, widow Livi Camden finally let loose with one exotic Hawaiian night that left her breathless...and pregnant. Now, on a mission to make amends to a family her forbears have wronged, Livi finds herself helping her onetime tropical lover. As passion reignites, she hesitates to reveal her pregnancy. Is Callan willing to add âhusbandâ and âdaddyâ to his list of family duties?
âAnyway,â he repeated, ânow here we are...â
âHere we are,â Livi echoed.
âAnd I thought maybe we should talk about... you know... where we go now.â
He did meet her eyes then, and Livi responded with an acknowledging raise of her chin. But she didnât say anything because she had no idea where they should go nowâespecially factoring in that pregnancy test she had in that bag in the trunk of her cousinâs car.
âHow about we just put it behind us?â he suggested then. âForget it happened. Start fresh...â
Easy for him to say.
âYou want to help Greta,â he went on, âand now sheâs kind of my jobâher and the Tellersâso weâll be seeing each other. But Hawaii was... well...â
A one-night stand? A vacation fling? Pure stupidity on her part? Yes, what exactly should they call it?
As bad as the past two months had been for Livi, this was worse. This was excruciating. It felt like a brush-off. As if he was telling her that even though theyâd slept together, he didnât want there to be anything more than that.
And while she certainly didnât, either, it was still a rejection. One she hadnât signed on for because she hadnât so much as entertained the idea of Hawaii going anywhere further.
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The Camdens of Colorado: Theyâve made a fortune in business. Can they make it in the game of love?
After years of grieving the loss of her soul mate, Livi Camden has done something completely out of character. An attempt to escape the pain of a lonely wedding anniversary led to a night of abandon in the arms of a stranger. Filled with regret, now not only is she afraid sheâs pregnant, that man has suddenly come back into her life.
Software mogul Callan Tierney already has his hands full when he reconnects with the beauty he had to run out on. The former bad boy has lost his two best friends and inherited their nine-year-old daughter and her grandparents.
There couldnât be a worse time for Livi and Callanâs paths to cross again, let alone for them to sort through what happened in Hawaiiâthe results of which Livi is keeping secret until she decides if Callan should be told at all.
Will she or wonât she tell him? Can Callan handle any more? Those are questions that have to be answered amid the memories of their amazing night together. But it was an amazing night...
Hope you enjoy finding out what happens!
Happy Reading,
VICTORIA PADE is a USA TODAY bestselling author. A native of Colorado, sheâs lived there her entire life. She studied art before discovering her real passion was for writing, and even after more than eighty books, she still loves it. When she isnât writing sheâs baking and worrying about how to work off the calories. She has better luck with the baking than with the calories. Readers can contact her on her Facebook page.
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Maybe I shouldnât have come today, Livi Camden thought as she leaned against the wall in one of the downstairs bathrooms of her grandmotherâs house.
For over a week now sheâd been having slight waves of nauseaâmostly in the mornings. But on this warm, sunshine-filled Sunday afternoonâthe second week of Octoberâit became much worse than a slight wave the minute sheâd come in and cooking smells had greeted her.
The bathroom had a window to the backyard and she opened it so she could breathe in the outside air.
Better...
The wave began to pass.
That was good. She hated feeling nauseous and she also didnât want to have to go home. She loved Sunday dinner at her grandmotherâs house with all her familyâeven if she wasnât sure she was going to be able to eat much today.
Family had been everything to her since sheâd lost her parents as a child and, along with her siblings and cousins, had become the responsibility of her grandmother. It was her family that kept Livi going when loss struck four years ago with Patrickâs death.
Plus, GiGi had called and said she wanted a few minutes alone with her today, and whatever request her grandmother made of her, Livi did her best to fulfillâespecially if it meant helping with the family project of making amends to those wronged by the Camdens in the past.
