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Secret Baby, Convenient Wife
Dervla was the nurse who'd tended his wounds when he was injured. He was the sexy billionaire who'd seduced her. She refused to be his mistress, so Gianfranco made her his wife….He had only one condition when they no children…For a year they were blissfully happy, making lazy love in the mornings, hot passionate love by night. But Dervla was carrying a secret. She was expecting her husband's baby….
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Kim Lawrence
837 books212 followersThough lacking much authentic Welsh blood, Kim Lawrence comes from English-Irish stock. She was born and brought up in North Wales. She returned there when she married, and her sons were both born on Anglesey, an island off the coast. Though not isolated, Anglesey is a little off the beaten track, but lively Dublin, which Kim loves, is only a short ferry ride away. Today they live on the farm her husband was brought up on. Welsh is the first language of many people in this area and Kim's husband and sons are all bilingual she is having a lot of fun, not to mention a few headaches, trying to learn the language! She is a keen gardener and cook and enjoys running often on the beach, as living on an island the sea is never very far away. She is usually accompanied by her Jack Russell, Sprout don't ask, it's long story!
With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel. In 1995, she published her first novels and now she can't imagine doing anything else.
With small children, the unsocial hours of nursing didn't look attractive so encouraged by a husband who thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to, Kim tried her hand at writing. Always a keen Mills & Boon reader, it seemed natural for her to write a romance novel. In 1995, she published her first novels and now she can't imagine doing anything else.
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July 5, 2018
Wonderful read,loved both the hero and the heroine. Dervla touched my heart she is such a great stepmother to Gianfranco's son and so patient with the hero who is not a bad guy at all just totally oblivious to his deep feelings about his wife. Still he respected her, took his marriage vows seriously and when he finally realized he was in love with Dervla and the way he told her, well that was the best scene in the whole book. The epilogue was also adorable beyond words! Heartwarming story!
August 14, 2018
Another nominee for worst title ever. The baby is secret for about a week, and as far as the hero is concerned his wife is not that convenient.
The H meets the h when he goes to the hospital for his 13 year old son. He falls head over heels in what he thinks is lust for the, yawn, virginal heroine/nurse. He wants her. He gets her, but he has to put a ring on it.
He's told her that he can't love her, but he can't keep his hands off her. My eyes rolled, not again! But, it becomes pretty obvious, pretty soon that the H is clueless about his feelings. The h runs away, and his son throws his hunky dad a bone by pretending to run away so the H can have an excuse to run after her. The son needs a book.
The h can't get pregnant which suits the H fine as he has low-grade guilt over his first wife dying from the results of gestational diabetes. When the h turns up pregnant, I hope that wasn't a surprise, the H flips his lid which infuriates the heroine.
Toss in an evil OW wannabe who manipulates the heroine into thinking wife number one was the love of the H's life, a nice teen stepson, a runaway wife, and a totally besotted, out of his mind with it hero. He wrings his hands, he slaps his hand to his head, he rants, he paces, and, yes, he even apologizes for being so stupid.
The H meets the h when he goes to the hospital for his 13 year old son. He falls head over heels in what he thinks is lust for the, yawn, virginal heroine/nurse. He wants her. He gets her, but he has to put a ring on it.
He's told her that he can't love her, but he can't keep his hands off her. My eyes rolled, not again! But, it becomes pretty obvious, pretty soon that the H is clueless about his feelings. The h runs away, and his son throws his hunky dad a bone by pretending to run away so the H can have an excuse to run after her. The son needs a book.
The h can't get pregnant which suits the H fine as he has low-grade guilt over his first wife dying from the results of gestational diabetes. When the h turns up pregnant, I hope that wasn't a surprise, the H flips his lid which infuriates the heroine.
Toss in an evil OW wannabe who manipulates the heroine into thinking wife number one was the love of the H's life, a nice teen stepson, a runaway wife, and a totally besotted, out of his mind with it hero. He wrings his hands, he slaps his hand to his head, he rants, he paces, and, yes, he even apologizes for being so stupid.
May 11, 2022
Reread 5-1-2022 I enjoyed this just as much the second time through.
***FOURS STARS***
This story had all the feels I could possibly want from a story about a woman married to a man, who just can't move on to love her after the loss of his first wife (the only TRUE love of his life) . Whew, the angst was delicious in this story. BTW, if anyone has other books with this dead wife/love of the hero's life, angsty as hell genre; please send the recs my way. I cannot get enough of this theme. It truly makes for beautiful angst. This story had a very sweet ending as well.
***FOURS STARS***
This story had all the feels I could possibly want from a story about a woman married to a man, who just can't move on to love her after the loss of his first wife (the only TRUE love of his life) . Whew, the angst was delicious in this story. BTW, if anyone has other books with this dead wife/love of the hero's life, angsty as hell genre; please send the recs my way. I cannot get enough of this theme. It truly makes for beautiful angst. This story had a very sweet ending as well.
June 5, 2017
This could have been such a good story - all the elements were there. A quick marriage. The specter of the Hero's dead first wife. Infertility - then a miracle pregnancy. A teenage step son to deal with. A wanna be OW subtly dropping her poison as she goes. An emotionally shut down hero and an insecure heroine.
Instead of trusting a straightforward narration - every angsty moment is stopped in its tracks by a flashback to happier times. I guess that was supposed to heighten the angst because of the juxtaposition, but it just drained all the energy out of the story.
It didn't help that the heroine bit her lip every two pages and cried every four. Her TSL moment when she went up a mountain during a storm with the threat of flash floods while she was in labor - I can't even. And not only did she have one miracle baby - she had another one 18 months later - and both were delivered by the hero. My belief - she is not suspended.
Instead of trusting a straightforward narration - every angsty moment is stopped in its tracks by a flashback to happier times. I guess that was supposed to heighten the angst because of the juxtaposition, but it just drained all the energy out of the story.
It didn't help that the heroine bit her lip every two pages and cried every four. Her TSL moment when she went up a mountain during a storm with the threat of flash floods while she was in labor - I can't even. And not only did she have one miracle baby - she had another one 18 months later - and both were delivered by the hero. My belief - she is not suspended.
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July 5, 2018
The h and H are married, she wants kids desperately and he has never said he loves her plus he doesn't want anymore children.
She had problems and it is doubtful she will conceive without assistance. Whaddaya know, she winds up preggers and he has to work through his feelings about it.
Add in a family friend who wants the H and tries about everything to get him and the recipe for drama increases.
They finally confess their love for each other only to wind up having to deliver the baby in an isolated mountain cabin. Good story with nice HEA.
She had problems and it is doubtful she will conceive without assistance. Whaddaya know, she winds up preggers and he has to work through his feelings about it.
Add in a family friend who wants the H and tries about everything to get him and the recipe for drama increases.
They finally confess their love for each other only to wind up having to deliver the baby in an isolated mountain cabin. Good story with nice HEA.
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March 4, 2010
This was a cute, quick read. Dervla and Gianfranco are married when the book starts, and their fast courtship is told in flashbacks. Dervla has the usual inferiority complex of the ordinary heroine who can't understand why the Italian God has fallen for her. Especially since she cannot conceive, although Gianfranco doesn't want any other kids anyway. She meets him when his son and he comes into the emergency room at the hospital where she works as a nurse. Initially, Gianfranco is arrogant and biting to her. But, under the worry for his son, is a strong attraction for the sweet, kind, redheaded nurse who cares for his son. He doesn't take long to sweep her up in his clutches, offering marriage when she refuses to be his mistress.
One year into the marriage, Dervla has read about a fertility treatment that might be able to help her to have kids. When she approaches Gianfranco, he says no. She thinks it's because he doesn't love her enough to want kids with her. That he doesn't love her at all. But the truth is, he feels guilt about persuading his first wife, who he impregnated as a naive nineteen year old, not to have an abortion and to marry him. When she dies due to diabetes complications as a result of her pregnancy, he decides that getting a woman pregnant is too much of a risk. He marries Dervla, making it clear that he doesn't want any other children.
Gianfranco is a typical HP hero, although his inability to understand how in love he is with his wife, is endearing, and inspires tender feelings in me as a reader. I wish he was able to communicate his feelings better, but Dervla could have used help with that as well. They both have some lessons to learn, as the miracle of their love brings them closer together and heals past wounds, along with some help from his matchmaking thirteen year old son.
Kim Lawrence is one of my favorite HP writers, because of the feel-good elements in her stories. This one definitely gave me that happy vibe. Recommended.
One year into the marriage, Dervla has read about a fertility treatment that might be able to help her to have kids. When she approaches Gianfranco, he says no. She thinks it's because he doesn't love her enough to want kids with her. That he doesn't love her at all. But the truth is, he feels guilt about persuading his first wife, who he impregnated as a naive nineteen year old, not to have an abortion and to marry him. When she dies due to diabetes complications as a result of her pregnancy, he decides that getting a woman pregnant is too much of a risk. He marries Dervla, making it clear that he doesn't want any other children.
Gianfranco is a typical HP hero, although his inability to understand how in love he is with his wife, is endearing, and inspires tender feelings in me as a reader. I wish he was able to communicate his feelings better, but Dervla could have used help with that as well. They both have some lessons to learn, as the miracle of their love brings them closer together and heals past wounds, along with some help from his matchmaking thirteen year old son.
Kim Lawrence is one of my favorite HP writers, because of the feel-good elements in her stories. This one definitely gave me that happy vibe. Recommended.
May 20, 2022
Cute and very good reading, despite the awful title.
I must confess I don't choose any more hp with those titles, and this is wrong because sometimes they are worth reading and much better than the title and cover.
And with this one I was positively impressed.
The hero is a widower with a 12 yo child and the heroine is a nurse.
He married young and it was a mistake and his wife died of gestational diabetes.
He feels guilty, even if he didn't love her, because he insisted on having the child knowing she was sick.
He asks the heroine to be his mistress but she's a good girl and she won't be nobody's kept woman, so he proposes.
He tells her he don't do love and he's really relieved that she can't have children because he doesn't want to repeat the awful experience with his first wife.
The heroine accepts because she's in love with him.
(of course he's in love with her very much but he tried to deny the fact to himself, which was cute becaue he's smitten)
After some months the heroine tells him she would like to try to have a new fertility treatment, but the hero refuses.
The heroine understands now that he wasn't only being supportive when he told her it didn't matter if she didn't have children, he really didn't want others.
And now she thinks he doesn't want her children.
Misunderstanding after misunderstanding the heroine is pregnant without any efforts, and she's very afraid of telling the hero.
Evil ow tells him the news and he goes ballistic.
He's afraid that something could go wrong so he hires a nurse and a doctor and he stays away from her bedroom.
Of course the idiot doesn't tell the reason of his behavior so she thinks he's already tired of her.
And this situation goes on for months until in the end the hero finally tells her he loves her and his declaration was really romantic and awsome, one of the best I've read recently.
I loved this one, the hero was sometimes a lil bit cold and not so nice, but never nasty, and we forgive him because he was so obviously smitten that he's pitiful, there's a ow but the hero doesn't even like her and he is also smart enough to see through her (unusual thing for a hp hero).
And teenage son is smarter than his papa, and a real matchmaker.
I must confess I don't choose any more hp with those titles, and this is wrong because sometimes they are worth reading and much better than the title and cover.
And with this one I was positively impressed.
The hero is a widower with a 12 yo child and the heroine is a nurse.
He married young and it was a mistake and his wife died of gestational diabetes.
He feels guilty, even if he didn't love her, because he insisted on having the child knowing she was sick.
He asks the heroine to be his mistress but she's a good girl and she won't be nobody's kept woman, so he proposes.
He tells her he don't do love and he's really relieved that she can't have children because he doesn't want to repeat the awful experience with his first wife.
The heroine accepts because she's in love with him.
(of course he's in love with her very much but he tried to deny the fact to himself, which was cute becaue he's smitten)
After some months the heroine tells him she would like to try to have a new fertility treatment, but the hero refuses.
The heroine understands now that he wasn't only being supportive when he told her it didn't matter if she didn't have children, he really didn't want others.
And now she thinks he doesn't want her children.
Misunderstanding after misunderstanding the heroine is pregnant without any efforts, and she's very afraid of telling the hero.
Evil ow tells him the news and he goes ballistic.
He's afraid that something could go wrong so he hires a nurse and a doctor and he stays away from her bedroom.
Of course the idiot doesn't tell the reason of his behavior so she thinks he's already tired of her.
And this situation goes on for months until in the end the hero finally tells her he loves her and his declaration was really romantic and awsome, one of the best I've read recently.
I loved this one, the hero was sometimes a lil bit cold and not so nice, but never nasty, and we forgive him because he was so obviously smitten that he's pitiful, there's a ow but the hero doesn't even like her and he is also smart enough to see through her (unusual thing for a hp hero).
And teenage son is smarter than his papa, and a real matchmaker.
February 23, 2016
I like Kim Lawrence's writing style for the most part. This one had too many flashbacks that disrupted the story for me. There wasn't really any secret baby here. The title is a bit misleading. The hero was stubbornly and willfully blind about his feelings. The heroine had a TSTL moment at the end which was totally and blatantly just a way to but the characters where the author wanted them for drama. It was totally out of character and something that no sane woman would have done.
April 23, 2013
The synopsis is a bit inaccurate. She actually was his son's nurse - yeah, he did have few scratches, but it was his son who was admitted to the hospital and in the critical care unit.
I did feel some emotion in this book but I really didn't care for how the book was arranged, with the flashbacks of how they met and the present day scenes. The transitions had lots of hiccups and were not flawless, so I found myself mostly skimming the flashbacks. The other woman's role and the added drama was good but kind of flimsy on how it was dealt with.
The son was just adorable.
I did feel some emotion in this book but I really didn't care for how the book was arranged, with the flashbacks of how they met and the present day scenes. The transitions had lots of hiccups and were not flawless, so I found myself mostly skimming the flashbacks. The other woman's role and the added drama was good but kind of flimsy on how it was dealt with.
The son was just adorable.
April 27, 2020
Amping up 1 more star 🌟 in rereads.
I loved the second part especially. First few chapters felt little jumbled. I adored their banter/dialogues.
This book cracked me up so many times. Especially hero’s inner monologue. Unlike some other books the son had a prominent role in this one. They way he manipulated the hero was hilarious. He wanted both of them to reconcile.
And heroine’s delivery scene was wonderfully witty. I loved, loved the ending.
I loved the second part especially. First few chapters felt little jumbled. I adored their banter/dialogues.
This book cracked me up so many times. Especially hero’s inner monologue. Unlike some other books the son had a prominent role in this one. They way he manipulated the hero was hilarious. He wanted both of them to reconcile.
And heroine’s delivery scene was wonderfully witty. I loved, loved the ending.
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April 1, 2021
Dervla was the nurse who'd tended his wounds when he was injured. He was the sexy billionaire who'd seduced her. She refused to be his mistress, so Gianfranco made her his wife....
He had only one condition when they wed: no children...
For a year they were blissfully happy, making lazy love in the mornings, hot passionate love by night. But Dervla was carrying a secret. She was expecting her husband's baby
He had only one condition when they wed: no children...
For a year they were blissfully happy, making lazy love in the mornings, hot passionate love by night. But Dervla was carrying a secret. She was expecting her husband's baby
August 20, 2012
Some of this book was absolutely hilarious and I couldn't stop laughing. It frustrated me near the end though where we find out she is pregnant then she's all of a sudden due in four weeks or whatever, it was such a huge gap. Not to mention the whole Carla thing, the heroine should of been able to see through her manipulative bullshit before the end of the book.
June 26, 2017
simply great ♡
May 18, 2022
This book had some good angst. I loved how the H was a dismissive ass and he just knew he couldn’t be in love with the h. I liked the scheming OW, but didn’t like how oblivious the h was to OW’s machinations. I liked that he felt some guilt about making her choose between a baby and him, but was disappointed that he wasn’t going to do anything to assuage his guilt. He never apologized for making her feel like she had to choose!
I wasn’t a fan of the flashbacks and time jumps. The ending jumped from them just discussing the pregnancy to her giving birth in a remote cabin and the H finally coming clean about his feelings. Huh? I would’ve loved to have read more of the angsty pregnancy drama!
I wasn’t a fan of the flashbacks and time jumps. The ending jumped from them just discussing the pregnancy to her giving birth in a remote cabin and the H finally coming clean about his feelings. Huh? I would’ve loved to have read more of the angsty pregnancy drama!
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May 10, 2022
I really enjoyed the story about a guy who doesn't want another baby and his pregnant wife. He was totally smitten but never really acknowledged it to himself. The tween stepson was real cute too. He said you can divorce her but I am not! Lol. It was just a bunch of miscommunication and angst but true love triumphed and I loved that he delivered the baby. And the epilogue was cute too.
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July 19, 2020
HP troubled marriage is my jam, throw in a dead ex-wife and I’m in like Flynn. Gianfranco and Dervla have been married for a year. (I think) They have steamy sex, and a pretty solid relationship, but Dervla feels he’ll never love her, because she believes his dead-ex Sara was the love of his life.
I wouldn’t call Dervla a doormat, but I would call her stupid. She allows the wannabe OW (Carla) to manipulate her, when it’s obvious she wants in her hubs pants. Now, I know you may be calling foul, because I LOVE it when the hubs are blind to the OW shenanigans, BUT women are smarter, and I expect more from them. 😏
She’s what I like to call the “Stewer” h type… she swallows and bottles up all her grievances, assumptions, and feelings and lets them percolate rather than have a conversation. Gianfranco suffers from mumble mouth anytime he needs to talk about “feelings”, but it also doesn’t help that Dervla takes everything he says negatively… always assuming the worst. Thankfully K.L. inserted a 13-yr-old boy & nun to help Dervla see reason.
My MAIN complaint with this book, and my reasoning for giving this 3 instead of 4 stars is the flow. First, the book flip flops between present and past musings without any set-up, label or intro, which I found super confusing. Also, there’re these weird “jumps” throughout that made me feel like I was missing pages. For example, This happens several times throughout, it’s drastic, and hard to follow.
Bottom Line- I did like this, but couldn’t love it, because I was having to constantly re-read things to figure out what happened. If you did love this, and want something similar w/out the jumps, but a more annoying h, and meaner H... give Duarte's Child a try. I read these coincidentally back-to-back, and they have many similarities.
I wouldn’t call Dervla a doormat, but I would call her stupid. She allows the wannabe OW (Carla) to manipulate her, when it’s obvious she wants in her hubs pants. Now, I know you may be calling foul, because I LOVE it when the hubs are blind to the OW shenanigans, BUT women are smarter, and I expect more from them. 😏
She’s what I like to call the “Stewer” h type… she swallows and bottles up all her grievances, assumptions, and feelings and lets them percolate rather than have a conversation. Gianfranco suffers from mumble mouth anytime he needs to talk about “feelings”, but it also doesn’t help that Dervla takes everything he says negatively… always assuming the worst. Thankfully K.L. inserted a 13-yr-old boy & nun to help Dervla see reason.
My MAIN complaint with this book, and my reasoning for giving this 3 instead of 4 stars is the flow. First, the book flip flops between present and past musings without any set-up, label or intro, which I found super confusing. Also, there’re these weird “jumps” throughout that made me feel like I was missing pages. For example, This happens several times throughout, it’s drastic, and hard to follow.
Bottom Line- I did like this, but couldn’t love it, because I was having to constantly re-read things to figure out what happened. If you did love this, and want something similar w/out the jumps, but a more annoying h, and meaner H... give Duarte's Child a try. I read these coincidentally back-to-back, and they have many similarities.
July 8, 2021
This was alright. I finished it and in my book that merits at least 3 Stars—I subtract or add according to my reading experience. 3.5 Stars sounds about right. It wasn’t as angsty as I wanted it but I enjoyed the plot enough. It was more on the short side (at 150 pages) and it felt like it needed more development…things just transpired too quickly for me to feel a deeper connection to the characters. The sexy scenes were tepid 😒 That isn’t always an issue but in this case it was a miss. Would I read it again in the future? No
✔️ Sweet epilogue
Note: I wouldn’t consider this ‘secret baby’ at all. She kept her pregnancy from her husband for like a week or two (I forgot already lol). That was a bit of a letdown.
✔️ Sweet epilogue
Note: I wouldn’t consider this ‘secret baby’ at all. She kept her pregnancy from her husband for like a week or two (I forgot already lol). That was a bit of a letdown.
July 4, 2023
Nice and funny!
May 28, 2014
this was light and entertaining! a fun romance! unfortunately, dervla was a doormat but it was obvious gianfranco was besotted wid her and had fallen hard for her, right from the first. so this did compensate for her lack of pride& self-respect! the story changed from the usual ones, it had a fresh touch to it and i enjoyed it very much..how gianfranco was obsessed wid his lil wife, how dervla wanted to shock him out of his shell but cud not get past her neediness. yes she was incredibly needy!even resigned herself not to have her own baby bcoz she wanted gianfranco above everything else! how alberto manipulated them and knew his dad wud be glad of the interference! the book lost two stars however bcoz of the flashes back in the past, so dat i thought the book lacked present happenings! i was more interested wid now than the past.
April 3, 2016
Not wonderful.
Solo es una novela más del montón para pasar el tiempo libre o algo así. Yo me la leí en mi viaje de autobús y sirvió para lo que fue hecha: entretener. Como no me enloquesen los amantes europeos y mucho menos italianos, está ok.
Lo que más me gustó fue que ya estuvieran casados desde el principio <3
Solo es una novela más del montón para pasar el tiempo libre o algo así. Yo me la leí en mi viaje de autobús y sirvió para lo que fue hecha: entretener. Como no me enloquesen los amantes europeos y mucho menos italianos, está ok.
Lo que más me gustó fue que ya estuvieran casados desde el principio <3
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August 21, 2020
It need a re-check/skim-reading in 2020
September 17, 2012
3.5 Star
August 7, 2017
So no epilogue for this book either but I felt this book really had a good ending so it was fine although I wouldn't have mind if there was one if it meant more on Tate and Gemma and their family! :) I hate that all these years Tate believed Gemma to be a liar and a cheater when Drake(his supposed Best friend) tricked him into believing Gemma was making a move on him. Which cause Tate to brake up with Gemma because all Drake wanted was revenge.I like that Tate and his grandmother set Drake up to find out the truth. It sucks that Drake succeed the 1st time but at least he he didn't succeed this time as well. Drake is a Bastard!I wish Tate's grandmother had destroyed him he deserved it he made Tate miss the 1 year of his son's life and he broke Tate and Gemma up... but it's just be wanting vengeance. (>:)> mawhahaahaaaaa :D) I liked this book very much!!!:D
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March 20, 2019
Honestly, Dervla drove me a little crazy. One, her name is Dervla. Two, she was an absolute ninny and I’m supposed to believe she was a halfway competent nurse? Nah. Three, she is supposed to be completely infertile and then she has not one, but 2 miracle pregnancies! I know that crazy stuff happens with fertility, but it typically doesn’t happen naturally for someone who has been told she doesn’t even have a chance at pregnancy with IVF. Four, Carla. I did not understand this character. She’s a cousin? But she thinks she’s going to marry Gianfranco? How close of a cousin are we talking here? And her purpose just seemed to be to occasionally reinforce Dervla’s insecurities about the first wife.
August 6, 2024
I liked it, they had a good connection.
I liked that hero was clearly in love with heroine from the beginning, even though he wasn't aware that's what he was feeling. I liked that he wasn't cruel to heroine. He was just so in love with her that he was scared pregnancy would kill her.
I liked that hero never entertained the other woman and was clearly annoyed by her all the time.
The heroine was ok, but I disliked how she was so naive about the other woman and when hero was not that nice to OW, she would tell him to quit it and be nice. When the other woman was clearly trying to steal him from her. P.
I liked that hero was clearly in love with heroine from the beginning, even though he wasn't aware that's what he was feeling. I liked that he wasn't cruel to heroine. He was just so in love with her that he was scared pregnancy would kill her.
I liked that hero never entertained the other woman and was clearly annoyed by her all the time.
The heroine was ok, but I disliked how she was so naive about the other woman and when hero was not that nice to OW, she would tell him to quit it and be nice. When the other woman was clearly trying to steal him from her. P.
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December 11, 2021
2.5 ⭐️ ⭐️This book was not organized well. It felt choppy, not enough build up to the walk-out toward the beginning. Then it went straight into backstory which didn't fit well. Toward the 80% mark we learn about the pregnancy without the h having dropped any hints (but it was in the title so no surprise). The weirdest thing was jumping from her finding out she was pregnant, having confrontation with H and then straight to 8 months. It was very badly plotted out but I finished it so it deserves at least 2.5
May 28, 2018
i loved this book. i will recommend it to italian lovers and those that are like me. I like that heroine had a weakness for the guy....i mean she was willing to save her marriage at the cost of never knowing if she can conceive using the experimental drug. This is just my kinda girl knowing that some things are just important... the writing style wasn't my favourite though i prefer to read from the past going into the future and no crazy 3 chapter flashbacks nay but i coped n im glad i did.
October 6, 2023
Enjoyable and good story. Her reasons for leaving were mixed up. She left because she decided he didn’t and wouldn’t love her, came back because she’d rather be with him. She was confused and that made it confusing for us readers. KL should have made more of stepson as he was an embryonic H.
I didn’t mind flashbacks as they filled out story.
This was a 4 star read except the conflict/h leaving seemed contrived.
I didn’t mind flashbacks as they filled out story.
This was a 4 star read except the conflict/h leaving seemed contrived.
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