Review: One Night Heir

One Night Heir by Lucy Monroe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3 ⭐⭐⭐ - OK decent reads.
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==>Reread August 2019 (- 1 ⭐ )
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==>Reread November 2017
Herdeiro Casual - Paixão 377 - Harlequin
(paperback portuguese edition)
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He dumped her because he wanted heirs and she had a health problem ... but got pregnant anyway. He just wanted the baby.

“I’m not. You know I cannot marry a woman who won’t be able to produce the next heir plus a spare.”

She tucked back down into bed, snuggling against him. “I could get used to this.” “It is too bad we cannot.” She heard the words, but they didn’t make sense, so they didn’t register.

“Continuing to have sex together will only make our eventual breakup all the harder, not to mention increasing the chances of the media picking up on our relationship. We’ve been lucky so far, they’ve left us alone.”

His expression was not hope producing. “A breakup between us is inevitable. Surely you understand this.”

“I cannot marry a woman incapable of providing heirs to the throne. It’s draconian, I know, but nevertheless, it is the way things must be.”

She was defective and therefore not worthy to be his bride. Oh, God. The silent prayer was filled with anguish, but received no heavenly reply.

“You do not love me.”

“Love is not an emotion I have the freedom or inclination to pursue.”

Every dream she’d nursed in the past months shattered, every hope she’d let herself entertain despite her past and present life that in no way matched his for brilliance ripped violently from her still bleeding heart.

He didn’t reply and she didn’t expect him to. It wasn’t the empty admonishment it might have been before she rang security on him the last time he’d been to her apartment.

“Even if I didn’t want to marry you, I would.” He gave gratitude that he did in fact like the idea of marriage to his lovely blonde. “Even better.”

“I believed pregnancy was impossible, or at least extremely unlikely,” he felt compelled to add. “Unlucky you.” “That is not how I see it.”

“You don’t love me.” She put her hand up when he made as if to speak. “In your mind, that doesn’t matter. I know, but it matters to me and I have to decide if I can be the best mother possible married to a man who does not love me and who found it so easy to discard me.”

“You do not trust me at all.” That shocked him. He was eminently trustworthy. “No, I don’t.” “That is not acceptable.”

He’d shattered her scarred heart when he rejected her and let Gillian know in unequivocal terms that he did not love her.

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