Michelle Celmer—Playing by the Baby Rules; Exerpt


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ACCIDENTALLY EXPECTING

Silhouette Special Edition
August 2007
ISBN 978-0373248476

Married to a bully? Have you had enough?
Emotional abuse leaves no bruises, breaks no bones, still the damage runs deep. Think it’s impossible to prove? Think again. A tape recorder or hidden camera can be a girl’s best friend.

--excerpt from,
THE MODERN WOMAN’S GUIDE TO DIVORCE (and the joys of staying single)

She was going to seduce him.
Miranda Reed sat in the shadows at the back of the hotel lounge, sipping her apple martini, eyes on her prey. He sat alone at the bar, his attention on the football game, unaware that he was being watched. His suit jacket lay draped on the barstool beside him and he’d rolled the sleeves of his shirt and loosened his tie. Even in this casual, relaxed state he stood out from the other business men. Everything about him was slightly and subtly exaggerated.
At six-two, Zackary Jameson stood a hair taller than most men, with a physique toned to perfection, dressed in a suit and shirt that were obviously tailor made to accentuate every one of his assets. She was especially impressed by the “asset” resting on the bar stool.
She did so appreciate a man with a nice rear end.
He somehow managed a perpetual tan, without ever looking leathery or sun-baked and any signs of age on his face made him look more distinguished than old. His short dark hair had that sexy mussed look, as if he’d just run his hands through it wet, but in reality probably took hours in front of a mirror to perfect. His mouth was wide, his smile warm and genuine, and his teeth just white and straight enough. Caps she was guessing. No one had teeth that perfect naturally.
He carried himself with casual authority, an ease and male grace that made people stop and watch. She’d never met a man who radiated such confidence, who was more comfortable in his own skin.
Too bad he was an over-opinionated male chauvinist pig whose ideology fell out of fashion with covered wagons and hoop skirts.
When asked to do the radio show with the renowned relationship guru, a man who had built an empire around the principles of traditional family values, her publicist assured her the promotion for the book she co-wrote, The Modern Woman’s Guide to Divorce (and the joys of staying single), would be invaluable.
Big mistake.
He’d argued so logically and twisted her words so skillfully that by the end of the show her message had been lost and she’d come out looking like a radical Nazi feminist man-hater.
She couldn’t forget the way he’d watched her with those piercing blue eyes, eyes deep enough to swim in, with not a hint of the superiority and satisfaction he must have been feeling for discrediting her. In fact, the angrier and more aggressive she’d become, he’d been equally calm and reasonable, the drivel he preached pouring out of him, smothering her every point like hot fudge over cold vanilla ice cream.
Call it petty and uncivilized, but she was in the mood for some good old fashioned revenge. Even if she would be the only one who knew.
She was going to put his high ideals to the test and see if he really believed all that garbage he spouted about marriage and family. Specifically his views on intimacy. The slightly updated version of no sex before marriage. The idea that a man and a woman should be committed, preferably with plans of marriage, before consummating a relationship.
They would just see about that...

From the book: Accidentally Expecting

By: Michelle Celmer