Contract with Consequences. Miranda Lee
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each other.’
‘You think I don’t like and respect you?’
‘We haven’t exactly been the best of friends over the years.’
‘But that’s all in the past, when we were just stupid kids. We got along very well today, didn’t we?’
‘Yes,’ she agreed reluctantly. ‘Yes, we did. Oh Lord, I still don’t know. If we go ahead and do this, what on earth are we going to tell everyone?’
‘We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Your priority at this point is becoming pregnant. Your body obviously isn’t clicking with the sperm donor you chose,’ he went on with cool, corrupting logic. ‘You need to try someone different.’
Scarlet knew that, if she failed to get pregnant again with her chosen sperm donor, she’d regret not accepting John’s offer. It was a case of do now, or possibly die childless!
‘Okay. Okay. I’m going to throw caution to the winds and just say yes.’
‘Great,’ John said, feeling more excited than when he’d found oil. ‘So what’s the plan?’
‘I’ll contact the clinic first thing tomorrow morning and arrange for a time for you to go in and give them a sperm sample. Then, when—’
‘Hang on!’ John interrupted immediately. ‘That’s not how it’s going to be done at all!’
‘What do you mean?’
‘I mean I have no intention of becoming a father via a turkey baster. Or a syringe. Or whatever they use these days. If we’re doing this, let’s do it right.’
‘You mean you … you want to have sex with me?’
CHAPTER SIX
JOHN smiled wryly. ‘Don’t sound so shocked, Scarlet. I’ve wanted you since the first moment I saw you today, not to mention for years while we were growing up.’
Scarlet blushed furiously, shocked, yet secretly elated to discover that the feelings which had so blindsided her today had been returned for so long.
‘But don’t start thinking that I’m doing this just because of that—because I’m not.’ Even as the denial left his mouth, John suspected he was morally skating on thin ice here. If what he was saying was strictly true, then why not just do what she suggested—go to this clinic and give them a sperm sample?
The truth was he did
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