Billionaire Bachelors: Ryan

Billionaire Bachelors: Ryan
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If Ryan Shaughnessy had been told that one day he'd marry his best friend, Jessie Reilly - secretly the girl of his dreams - and they'd be expecting twins, he would've said, "pinch me."But even his wildest dreams never included a proposal inspired by the need to rescue Jessie from the sperm bank! Yet as her due date neared, Ryan sensed more than just a hormonal change in Jessie.Dare he hope she saw him not only as the father of her babies, but as a devoted husband, a passionate lover…and undeniably the man of her dreams?

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Marry Jessie. She Wants A Baby, You Want A Family.

The idea was so shocking that Ryan stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk, causing a woman to glance at him oddly.

Marry Jessie. The thought made his heart race alarmingly. Part of him was still that adolescent boy with a crush on his lissome young neighbor. With those long legs and the graceful way she carried herself, she was most definitely elegant, but she was also volatile. If she disagreed with him, she said so in no uncertain terms.

He’d told himself he was over Jessie, that she’d been an adolescent fantasy. But in the back of his mind he knew he’d been comparing other women to her for the past ten years or more.

And he was over her. Just because he couldn’t stop thinking about her didn’t mean anything except that he was still as physically attracted to her as he’d always been.

Was it ridiculous to think that he could make a life with her now, a life that included the children he’d always wanted?

He reached for the phone. After all, what did he have to lose?

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Billionaire Bachelors: Ryan

Anne Marie Winston


ANNE MARIE WINSTON

RITA Award finalist and bestselling author Anne Marie Winston loves babies she can give back when they cry, animals in all shapes and sizes and just about anything that blooms. When she’s not writing, she’s chauffeuring children to various activities, trying not to eat chocolate or reading anything she can find. She will dance at the slightest provocation and weeds her gardens when she can’t see the sun for the weeds anymore. You can learn more about Anne Marie’s novels by visiting her Web site at www.annemariewinston.com.

For Mary Anne Trent

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

—G. Randolf

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Epilogue

One

“Boston financial wizard Ryan Shaughnessy comes in sixth on our list of the Northeast’s most desirable bachelors. Shaughnessy, 32, a self-made multimillionaire with diverse business interests, holds the patent on Securi-Lock, a decade-old technological innovation that has taken the world of home security in a new and vital direction. Widowed two years ago and childless, Shaughnessy makes his home in the exclusive Brookline community of Boston’s Back Bay. He stands six-foot-three and weighs in at 205 pounds. If you want to capture the interest of this eminently available hunk, you should take up swimming, rowing and jogging.”

Ryan Shaughnessy glared at his lunch date with ill-concealed poor humor. “Put that thing away.”

Jessie Reilly was still chortling as she dropped the magazine back into her bag. “I’m impressed,” she said, and the sparkle dancing in her eyes made him narrow his own. They’d grown up together and he knew that look. It usually meant trouble for him. “I mean, who’d ever have thought that skinny kid next door would grow up to be an ‘eminently available hunk’?”

Ryan forgot to be annoyed as her amused gaze met his. Jessie looked as good as she always did to him, in a slim-fitting charcoal suit and high black boots to protect her feet from January’s icy weather, and he felt the familiar little shock of attraction in his solar plexus when her wide smile lit her face. “If I’d known you were bringing that rag,” he told her, “I might have skipped lunch.” Right. Like you’d ever miss an opportunity to spend time with Jessie.

Jessie had been his neighbor during his childhood, his first hopeless adolescent love and his good friend forever. She joined him here on the third Wednesday of every month for lunch. As she shook her dark hair back from her face, it gleamed with coppery highlights. He was aware that more than one man in the room watched her as she relaxed at the table he’d reserved by the fireplace in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel’s bar.



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