The Baby Bombshell
Shadow Creek, Montana #2
Victoria James
Publication Date: April 10, 2017
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Bliss, Contemporary Romance
Lily Cookson has a few rules for the New Year, the most important being don’t fall for Jack Bailey. The gorgeous, rugged man returned with a new look and a determination to win her back, catching her off guard. After a forbidden night in his arms, she vows never to let it happen again. But when morning sickness kicks in a few weeks later, Lily realizes staying away from Jack just got a whole lot harder.
Jack Bailey left Shadow Creek behind five years ago when his world imploded around him, knowing it would be best for everyone if he was gone…including Lily. It took him a long time to get his life back on track and grow into the kind of man she needs him to be. Now he’s determined to prove to Lily that he’s back for good and ready to commit, but the secrets she’s holding onto are nothing compared to the bombshell he drops…
She
squeezed her eyes shut and he took that opportunity to close the distance
between them, gently folding her up in his arms until all she could breathe was
him. She stood there, not hugging him back, but not pushing him away. His chest
was hard against the side of her face. His hands were in her hair and she knew
all she had to do was lean back slowly and his mouth would be on hers. But she
wasn’t ready for that, because she knew all her control would be gone at that
point. Instead, she breathed in the scent that was him. It was like she was
home.
All
at once, her past and her present, her pain and her joy was all here, wrapped
up in the one man she needed more than anyone. God did she want to believe in
him. Her arms wrapped around his waist, and she felt him shudder before his
strong arms held her tightly. “Lily, there’s been no one.”
She
wanted to push him, but instead ended up clutching two fistfuls of his shirt.
“I can’t ever get back together with you. It doesn’t matter that you claim you
still love me, that you never stopped loving me. It doesn’t matter that it’s
New Year’s Eve and you, the love of my life, are back in town and looking so
good that all I want to do is jump you,” she said, blabbing an embarrassing
mile a minute, hating that she had no filter when she was drunk and that she
had a tendency for theatrical, dramatic jabbering. “It doesn’t matter that
we’re here. Alone. Two adults with a past but no hope for a future.”
“Lily.”
“I
don’t trust you anymore,” she whispered, aware that she was pulling him in
closer as she spoke. God, he stilled smelled like Jack. He felt like her Jack.
She closed her eyes, feeling his hands on her wrists, pulling them off his
chest. His hands cupped each side of her face, and she felt the calluses, such
a contrast to the tender way he was holding her. Oh God, she was such toast.
One night. She could do one night.
His
lips hovered over her mouth, and it took all her self-control not to whimper.
“Give me tonight. One night to prove to you that we still belong together.” She
reminded herself to breathe normally, but it was so hard to breathe normally
with Jack whispering about a night together. His beard scraped against her
cheek as he whispered in her ear, and her knees threatened to buckle. “I wrote
to you every day. Every single day, because it made me feel close to you,
because I missed you so damn much.”
She
squeezed her eyes shut, tilting her head up, surrendering, as his words
impacted her until she couldn’t defend herself anymore. “One night. Then
tomorrow my new number one New Year’s resolution is going to be ‘no more Jack
Bailey.’”
There
was the tiniest hint of a smile, like he was making a resolution of his own,
before his mouth finally captured hers in what had to be the best reunion kiss
of all time.
Victoria James is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance.
Victoria always knew she wanted to be a writer and in grade five, she penned her first story, bound it (with staples and a cardboard cover) and did all the illustrations herself. Luckily, this book will never see the light of day again.
In high school she fell in love with historical romance and then contemporary romance. After graduating University with an English Literature degree, Victoria pursued a degree in Interior Design and then opened her own business. After her first child, Victoria knew it was time to fulfill her dream of writing romantic fiction.
Victoria is a hopeless romantic who is living her dream, penning happily-ever-after’s for her characters in between managing kids and the family business. Writing on a laptop in the middle of the country in a rambling old Victorian house would be ideal, but she’s quite content living in suburbia with her husband, their two young children, and very bad cat.
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