{"id":254398,"date":"2026-07-13T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/billion-dollar-baby-clause-louise-fuller\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:31:07","slug":"billion-dollar-baby-clause-louise-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/billion-dollar-baby-clause-louise-fuller\/","title":{"rendered":"Billion – Dollar Baby Clause – Louise Fuller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picturing Ariana\u2019s expression, his skull felt like it was going to explode. Could Willa have done it deliberately? Had that supposed accident in the street been anything but accidental? Logically, the answer to that was possibly, at least. And yet he knew that it wasn\u2019t. That she was as stunned as he was. Unflatteringly, aside from the sex, he got the feeling that she saw him not as a catch but a complication.<\/p>\n

The room felt suddenly like it was closing in on him. He needed to get out of here. Get some air. Move. Run. Throwing back the sheet, he got to his feet and made his way to the window and pushed open the shutters. There was enough light. All he needed to do was get dressed. And then he would run and keep running until the ache in his lungs offset the one in his chest.<\/p>\n

1kitap1.com\/en Willa pressed the heels of her hands into her eyes, blocking out the daylight that was creeping in through her window, wishing she could as easily block out the memory of that kiss. She had been awake for about an hour and spent most of that time wishing she could go back to sleep. At least asleep, she didn\u2019t have to deal with her stupidity. As if everything wasn\u2019t enough of a mess.<\/p>\n

What she should have been doing was containing it, shushing it into submission so that she could get on with her job. Instead, she had thrown fireworks into a bonfire. His mouth on hers. Her breath mingling with his. At some point early yesterday evening, either of her own accord or because Ares had sent her, Iona knocked on her door with some freshly squeezed peach juice, and she had taken the opportunity to excuse herself from supper by claiming that she had a migraine. She hated lying, but she\u2019d had more than enough of Ares Konstantinou for one day.<\/p>\n

That was one way of putting it. She felt her cheeks burn as the kiss swelled up inside her again, and she touched her lips, remembering how he\u2019d bent his head and fitted his mouth to hers. She should have pushed him away. Or slapped him like the heroine in an old black-and-white movie. But instead, she had kissed him right back, unthinkingly, as if it was something they had done a hundred times before.<\/p>\n

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It was a bubble of pure, distilled ecstasy. A fever dream outside of time. But things were different now. That pleasure had blossomed into new life. \u201cThe last time I checked, it takes two to make a baby, Willa.\u201d She stared at him steadily, and the forest of thorns was back. He could feel her withdrawing, but she couldn\u2019t hide everything, he thought, his eyes snagging on the pulse hammering against the delicate skin of her throat.<\/p>\n

His body tensed as he imagined pressing his mouth against it. Would he be able to taste what she was feeling? He certainly wasn\u2019t going to hear it from her lips. She gave him one of those cool, precise looks of hers that gave off Cleopatra-on-her-throne vibes, and despite his irritation he found himself admiring her poise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be plenty of time for us to discuss how to move forward,\u201d she said, after a hard pause that left his teeth on edge because it was a lawyer\u2019s answer. But she wasn\u2019t supposed to be acting as his lawyer right now. 1kitap1.com\/en Louise Fuller was a tomboy who hated pink and always wanted to be the prince\u2014not the princess! Now she enjoys creating heroines who aren\u2019t pretty pushovers but are strong, believable women.<\/p>\n

Before writing for Harlequin, she studied literature and philosophy at university, then worked as a reporter on her local newspaper. She lives in Royal Tunbridge Wells with her impossibly handsome husband, Patrick, and their six children. Books by Louise Fuller Harlequin Presents Their Dubai Marriage Makeover Returning for His Ruthless Revenge Her Diamond Deal with the CEO Royal Ring of Revenge Business Between Enemies Hot Winter Escapes One Forbidden Night in Paradise Behind the Billionaire\u2019s Doors\u2026 Undone in the Billionaire\u2019s Castle The Diamond Club Reclaimed with a Ring Ruthless Rivals Boss\u2019s Plus-One Demand Nine-Month Contract Visit the Author Profile page at Harlequin.com for more titles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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