Too Good to Forget

Chapter 1

"NO"
Shocked denial cinched Coleen's stomach into a tight knot and she couldn't seem to draw a proper breath. As she stared at the telltale pink line, Coleen's trembling hands nearly dropped the evidence she wanted so desperately to deny.

How had this happened?

She couldn't avoid the truth any longer. One test might lie, but three test? Never. Shaking and feeling slightly ill, she placed the plastic testing wand on her flat's scarred bathroom counter and then braced her quivering arms against the sink.

She was pregnant.

With Marcus Whitfield's child. She knew Marcus. She knew his plans for the future,and they didn't include her. They never had.

How many times had he told her of his decision to never marry or have children? He liked his solitary life, loved his freedom. It allowed him to focus on business without emotional distractions.
An unspoken agreement to both of them. Neither had asked questions the other. didn't wish to answer. The past remained in the past;they lived for the moment. It was safer that way.

And it had been enough.

Until she'd fallen in love.

Closing her eyes, she inhaled sharply. She couldn't the rules on him. She wouldn't be naive enough to offer. Though she suspected he carried scars no mere female could heal, she certainly was in no position to try.

But you're going to have his child

No way would she be one of those women who trapped a man into marriage by getting herself pregnant. No way would she repeat her mother's mistake and put her child in the middle of a loveless marriage like she have been with her own mother.

She'd make her child feel loved regardless of the circumstances of her conception. No baby of hers would ever feel like a pawn in a marriage build on coercion, obligation and resentment.

She had to break things off with Marcus. Today.

And she had to make it believable..