Carrying the Lost Heir's Child
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They’d both immediately known the name—Rose. How could they name their baby after anyone but the woman who, in a roundabout way, brought Lily to the estate?
While Lily loved how private she and Jake had been for the past several months, she was eager to introduce him to her world, to show everyone that true love existed and she’d found it.
They’d visited her mother and she and Jake had clicked perfectly. Lily couldn’t be happier with how her family was growing, how she was being welcomed into the Barringtons as if she’d always been part of them. Damon had fully embraced Jake, as well. The two men were already power planning for the upcoming racing seasons. Just because the girls were retiring and gearing up to open a riding school for disabled children didn’t mean Damon was ready to let go just yet. Especially with his son breeding Don Pedro. The families were truly meshing in every way.
Linda and Damon turned, moving from one family member offering hugs and smiles to another. So much happiness enveloped them. Each couple had fought through pain, through obstacles that could break most others.
With three more children in the Barrington clan taking off, Lily knew this dynasty was truly just getting started.
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Prologue
“I’m sorry.” Briana Harper interrupted her business partner in the middle of their weekly meeting. “Did you just say we’ve booked the Missy Kline and Ian Lawson wedding? The Missy Kline and Ian Lawson?”
Natalie, the wedding planner and office manager, looked up from her tablet, her brow furrowing in mild irritation at Bree breaking her flow. “Yes,” she said with a heavy sigh. “What’s the big deal with that? We have plenty of celebrity weddings.”
Bree shook her head and returned to tapping absently at her own tablet. “I’m just surprised, that’s all.” That wasn’t all, but she wasn’t going to tell her best friends and business partners that. One of the most important rules at From This Moment was to remain professional at all times. It didn’t matter if the ring bearer knocked over the wedding cake, a guest spoke up during the dreaded “if anyone has any reason why these two should not be wed” moment or the groom was your ex-boyfriend. So Bree kept her mouth shut.
“They’re all over the magazine covers at the grocery store checkout lines,” Gretchen added. “I don’t know how you could’ve missed it. Apparently she’s pregnant, too.”
“I guess I’ve been eating too much takeout,” Bree muttered. Pregnant. The bare-midriff pop queen was going to have Ian’s baby. For some reason that bothered her. A lot. How could she have missed this news?
Natalie flung her dark brown hair over her shoulder and continued on with her Monday morning briefing. When Natalie was focused on the job, there was no room for joking around or unnecessary drama.
Each Monday, the four owners of From This Moment met to discuss new clients, business issues and the previous weekend’s wedding.
From This Moment was a one-stop wedding venue that catered to the discriminating Nashville bride. Anybody who was anybody got married at their facility. In just six short years, college friends Natalie, Amelia, Gretchen and Bree had gone from being nobodies with a dream to members of the Nashville business elite.
Together, they were a powerhouse of wedding perfection. If they couldn’t do it, they knew someone who could. Anything the bridal couple wanted, they made it happen. No request was too complex, and they built a reputation on that. That, and a policy of strict confidentiality.
Natalie was right; they did have their fair share of celebrities marry here. Missy Kline was just one more star they could add to their roster of famous clients, but Bree couldn’t care less about her. She was far more interested in Missy’s groom—Nashville music producer and owner of SpinTrax Records, Ian Lawson.
Once upon a time, Ian had been the center of Bree’s universe. They had met as freshmen at Belmont University in Nashville and for more than a year, they had been inseparable. He had been the sexy coffee shop musician with the long hair in his sleepy eyes and the smile that could charm her panties off. When he’d played his guitar and sang to her, all was right in the world. And then he had stopped playing and everything went wrong.
“Bree?”
Bree’s head snapped up. The other three ladies were looking at her. She’d obviously missed something. “Yes?”
“I said,” Natalie repeated, “will you be able to do the engagement portraits this Thursday and still be back in time to cover the rehearsal dinner for the Conner wedding on Friday?”
Now it was Bree’s turn to frown. “Why wouldn’t I be back in time? It only takes a couple hours for an engagement shoot.”
“The bride wants to do the photo shoot at the groom’s cabin in Gatlinburg.” Amelia repeated the detail Bree had missed.
“That should be fine.”
“Okay, good.” Natalie made a note. “I’ll get you the address of the cabin. Plan to arrive around noon.”
That was that. Once Natalie noted something in her tablet, it was virtually signed in blood. There was no getting out of it now. Bree would finally come face-to-face with the man who had haunted her thoughts and dreams for the past nine years.
And his new bride.
Copyright © 2015 by Andrea Laurence
ISBN-13: 9781460344675
Carrying the Lost Heir’s Child
Copyright © 2015 by Jules Bennett
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