The Italianâs one-night heir
Vulnerable Megan Whittaker has orders to find out if tycoon Dario De Rossi plans to acquire her fatherâs business. Reluctantly, she agrees, but doesnât expect to be so distracted by their searing chemistry that she ends up in his bed!
Dario does have takeover ambitions, but when Megan is violently punished for her night with the enemy, he feels honor-bound to protect her. They escape to Italy, but this commanding businessman soon discovers a deeper problem. Not only is Megan suffering from amnesia, meaning she believes theyâre engaged and passionately in love...but sheâs also carrying his baby!
âDario, are you even listening to me?â
He forced his gaze back to Meganâs face. Her pale skin had acquired a healthy sun-burnished glow in the last week, her cheeks now a bright scarlet hue even more tempting than that damn bikini. He wanted to lick that fluttering pulse in her collarbone so much that he could almost taste her sweet, spicy aroma on his tongue.
The way he had every night in his dreams.
Her eyes had widened. Was that trepidation or shock he could see in them, their misty green bright with stunned knowledge? Then she rolled her lip under small white teeth and everything inside him shattered. All the smart, practical, moral reasons why he couldnât taste her seemed to explode in a cloud of nuclear fallout.
âStop biting your lip,â he said, his voice a low, husky croak he barely recognised as his own.
âDario! Donât speak to me like that.â
He wrapped his hands around her upper arms and hauled her to him.
Then all coherent thought fled as his lips landed on succulent skin and his hands captured the lush curves that had finally pushed him over the edge into madness.
One Night With Consequences
When one nightâ¦leads to pregnancy!
When succumbing to a night of unbridled desire itâs impossible to think past the morning after!
But, with the sheets barely settled, that little blue line appears on the pregnancy test and it doesnât take long to realise that one night of white-hot passion has turned into a lifetime of consequences!
Only one question remains:
How do you tell a man youâve just met that youâre about to share more than just his bed?
Find out in:
The Sheikhâs Baby Scandal by Carol Marinelli
A Ring for Vincenzoâs Heir by Jennie Lucas Claiming His Christmas Consequence by Michelle Smart The Guardianâs Virgin Ward by Caitlin Crews A Child Claimed by Gold by Rachael Thomas The Consequence of His Vengeance by Jennie Lucas Secrets of a Billionaireâs Mistress by Sharon Kendrick The Bossâs Nine-Month Negotiation by Maya Blake The Pregnant Kavakos Bride by Sharon Kendrick A Ring for the Greekâs Baby by Melanie Milburne Engaged for Her Enemyâs Heir by Kate Hewitt
Look for more One Night With Consequences stories coming soon!
USA TODAY bestselling author HEIDI RICE lives in London, England. She is married with two teenage sonsâwhich gives her rather too much of an insight into the male psycheâand also works as a film journalist. She adores her job, which involves getting swept up in a world of high emotions, sensual excitement, funny, feisty women, sexy, tortured men and glamorous locations where laundry doesnât exist. Once she turns off her computer she often does choresâusually involving laundry!
Books by Heidi Rice
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Vows They Canât Escape
One Night, So Pregnant! Too Close for Comfort
Mills & Boon Modern Tempted
Beach Bar Baby
Maid of Dishonour Cupcakes and Killer Heels The Good, the Bad and the Wild On the First Night of Christmasâ¦
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.
To Bryony, who made sure I gave this story the depth it deserved.
And Daisy, who talked me off the ledge a few times while I was doing that!
Dario, Megan and I thank you both sincerely.
PROLOGUE
âDARIO DE ROSSI IS escorting you to the Westchester Ball tomorrow night and you need to seduce him while youâre there.â
âWhat? Why?â Megan Whittaker was fairly sure sheâd just been transported into an alternate universe. An alternate universe that was two hundred years past its sell-by date. Either that or her father had lost his mind. Whichever way you looked at it, the demand he had just levelled at her from across his walnut desk in the Manhattan offices of Whittaker Enterprises, without even the hint of a smile on his face, was not good news, because he did not appear to be joking.
âTo save Whittakerâs from possible annihilation,â her father snapped. âDonât give me your whipped puppy look, Megan,â he added. âDo you think I would ask this of you if there were another option?â