The Secret Valtinos Baby by Lynne Graham
by Lynne Graham
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His seduction had life-changing consequences
Now her boss is back—with marriage in mind!
Personal assistant Merry Armstrong couldn’t resist Angel Valtinos’s sensual charisma. The Greek awakened her with his touch and left her pregnant! When Angel discovers his heir, duty compels him to act. Despite Merry’s independence, Valtinos’s legacy must be legitimised—and seducing her into becoming his wife will be his biggest challenge!
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- Original Title:The Secret Valtinos Baby (Vows for Billionaires)
- Creator:Lynne Graham
- Language:en
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- Publisher:Harlequin Presents
- Date:2018-01-16T00:00:00+00:00
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Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Back Cover Text
- 3. About the Author
- 4. Booklist
- 5. Title Page
- 6. Copyright
- 7. Contents
- 8. CHAPTER ONE
- 9. CHAPTER TWO
- 10. CHAPTER THREE
- 11. CHAPTER FOUR
- 12. CHAPTER FIVE
- 13. CHAPTER SIX
- 14. CHAPTER SEVEN
- 15. CHAPTER EIGHT
- 16. CHAPTER NINE
- 17. CHAPTER TEN
- 18. Extract
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The Secret Valtinos Baby, Book 1 of the Vows for Billionaires series, was about Merry Armstrong, a personal assistant, and Angel Valtinos, her billionaire boss and Greek billionaire. Merry, just out of college and starting her first job, was hired at Valtinos Enterprises in the reception department. When a position came available later for a personal assistant to Angel, she applied...and got the job. Some of her coworkers warned her not to get too attached to him, but Merry wasn't interested in the man, for she had enough bad experience growing up with men and didn't want to get involved with her boss. After working on his personal staff for several months, a virus swept through the offices, causing many of the staff to fall ill, Merry ended up working more closely with Angel than she ever had, which caused them to become more aware of the other. When he kissed her and then asked her to go home with him, Merry did her best to turn him down. When he made another attempt a week later, she told him she was a virgin and didn't do one-night stands. He told her he didn't do virgins. But they ended up in bed that very same night. Try as she might, Merry could not convince Angel to stay away and leave it at the one night they had shared. When the contraceptive failed, Angel sent her to a doctor to be completely checked out. Declining the "morning after" pill, she returned to work, only to be called into a conference room where she was met with an attorney and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement, given a financial settlement...and fired on the spot. Not long later, she learned that she was pregnant. Finding out he had fathered Merry's daughter, Angel expected to have access to the baby. Unfortunately for him, Merry kept him away from his daughter because, if he really paid attention, his showing up for visits would legally break the NDA because he was so closely followed by reporters. It was almost a year later when Angel's father learned of the baby and, saddened he might never get to meet his only grandchild, he asked Angel what he intended to do about the situation. Unhappy that he had lost his father's respect, he was compelled to turn the heat up on Merry for access to their daughter, so he showed up at her place of business and tried to force her to do things his way...until she told him she had a date, which threw him for a loop. He had never even given one thought that she would look to some man other than him, and it was unsettling. I detested Angel at the opening of the book. Blackmailing Merry after he allowed his lawyers to treat her with such cruel intentions and then acting like it was all her fault. He also did his damndest to make her think he had a change of heart regarding the baby when, in all actuality, he was terrified of losing his father's respect forever. It wasn't Merry or the baby that changed his mind, it was his dad. What a bstrd. I don't care what kind of upbringing or past an author gives to their characters, that in no way should be used as an excuse to treat others just as poorly. The story was the usual drab, old-school Harlequin plot...the arrogant, foreign, rich tycoon who just had to control the woman he was interested in, whether she wanted it to happen or not. The usual blackmail scheme to tie her in knots...but for which there would never be an apology. The troubled Heroine who lets herself be bullied by the tycoon, gets her feelings hurt, only to yield to him in the end, ready to forgive and forget as if he had never mistreated her or done anything to injure her emotions in any way, shape, or form. The twists and turns were just so totally unbelievable that when past and present collided, they were all but devastating. The emotions were chaotic and all over the place. Yes, there was plenty of chemistry and passion, but at what cost? There were still issues that never got worked out, almost as if the author wrote about them...and then forgot she had done so. Too many unanswered questions, too many hurts to just brush away by the words, "just trust me". Life doesn't work that way. This was a nice story, but not worthy of a five-star rating.