{"id":2120,"date":"2016-04-22T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2120"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:20:08","slug":"an-heir-to-make-a-marriage","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/an-heir-to-make-a-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"An Heir To Make A Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-d18d8c2c81d10022ebd21ffa95322c35 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-2120'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-cd38d5c7065af300f8900d101a6f113e\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-cd38d5c7065af300f8900d101a6f113e{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-cd38d5c7065af300f8900d101a6f113e .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-cd38d5c7065af300f8900d101a6f113e .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-cd38d5c7065af300f8900d101a6f113e av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A legacy maid in Manhattan&#8230;<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>In desperation to save her father, housekeeper Rose O\u2019Malley thinks she can trap a man. But the second she faces Zac Valenti and the force of his palpable sensuality, she knows she can\u2019t go through with it!<\/p>\n<p>Before she can call off her deception, Manhattan\u2019s most eligible bachelor sweeps Rose off her feet \u2013 and into his bed! Stealing away like a guilty Cinderella, Rose vows never to see Zac again\u2026until she discovers she\u2019s pregnant and Zac demands his passionate betrayer and his baby remain under his control!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-av_toggle_container-f0c39e76d1f074f51d6efd8dbfc052b2  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-av_toggle-8de81ac43d8741c54e0c2d304cec834e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>RT Review<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">AN HEIR TO MAKE A MARRIAGE (4 stars) by Abby Green: When her father needs an expensive heart surgery, New York maid Rose O\u2019Malley is coerced by her employer into sleeping with Zac Valenti and becomes pregnant. The plot thickens, as Zac is her employer\u2019s grandson, and because of several major family fabrications, he\u2019s sworn to never procreate. Zac\u2019s grandmother is determined to carry on the family name no matter the cost. But when the scheme works and Rose winds up pregnant, she finds she only wants to protect Zac and their unborn child. A well-written tale and nicely paced storyline make for a heartwarming read in the One Night With Consequences series. Rose is quite believable in her desire to save her father and avoid doing the wrong thing, as is Zac\u2019s anger at his family.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-reviewed-by field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">Reviewed by:<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Alexandra Kay<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><a href='#excerpt'  class='avia-button av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-dark'  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She was basically exhibiting all the signs of heading into a full blown panic attack or some kind of emotional and physical meltdown, right here, on a closed toilet seat in one of Manhattan\u2019s most exclusive hotel bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Her surroundings, as opulent as they were, were only making things worse. Highlighting the fact that she shouldn\u2019t be here. Highlighting the fact that this was <em>not<\/em> her world. She was one generation removed from Ireland, by way of Queens. And to say she felt like fish out of water was an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Her reflection in the mirror on the back of the cubicle door showed her a stranger. A sleek, soign\u00e9e stranger. Her normally wavy shoulder length strawberry blonde hair was all straight and glossy and coiled up into a sophisticated chignon at the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>Rose acknowledged faintly that she had a neck. She\u2019d never noticed it before now.<\/p>\n<p>Only the bottom half of her face was visible because the rest of it was obscured by a delicately ornate black and gold mask. Her eyes glinted out, looking very frightened, and green and almost feverish. Her mouth was painted a garish red. Her cheeks were flushed too \u2013 she put the back of her hand to one burning cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Relief flooded her for a moment, that was it: she was coming down with the flu \u2013 she ignored the little voice pointing out that they were in the middle of an abnormally warm New York spring and rationalised that she couldn\u2019t possibly go out there now, she\u2019d infect all of the most important people in Manhattan with her germs.<\/p>\n<p>But just as she was about to stand up, her sheer black dress shimmering in the mirror, the main door of the powder room opened and women came in, chattering excitedly, and Rose sat back down again, futility sinking into her bones.<\/p>\n<p>Of course she didn\u2019t have the flu.<\/p>\n<p>But she also wasn\u2019t ready to come into actual human contact with anyone. Thankfully she was in the end stall, furthest away from the door. She\u2019d wait till they left.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women who entered &#8211; Rose figured there were two &#8211; spoke in a loud indiscreet whisper. \u2018Oh my <em>god. <\/em>Did you <em>see<\/em> him? I mean, I know he\u2019s totally hot, but seriously? I think my ovaries just exploded.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The other woman\u2019s tone was dry and sardonic. \u2018Well, that\u2019s just a waste of good eggs. It\u2019s common knowledge he doesn\u2019t want anything to do with the inheritance his family have bequeathed to any child he might have \u2013 he even changed his name to distance himself!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The friend was incredulous, \u2018Who on earth would turn their back on billions of dollars and a family name that dates back to the <em>Mayflower<\/em>?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s insides cramped painfully. She knew exactly who; the most infamous man at the party. <em>Zac Valenti<\/em>. He was here. She\u2019d been hoping he might not be. But he was. And now the palpitations were back.<\/p>\n<p>The women were still gossiping amidst the sounds of rummaging in a bag.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018&#8230;everyone thought he was having, like, a breakdown or something after he left Addison Carmichael waiting at the altar, but the man literally rose from the ashes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The voices got lower and Rose found herself straining forward to the door to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They say that he\u2019s now the richest eligible male in the United States.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But did you get the vibe he sends off? Seriously cold, and moody. Like, <em>you can look, but you can\u2019t touch<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The other voice turned dreamy, \u2018I know&#8230;those silent brooding types are so damned attractive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There was a spurt of something that sounded like perfume and a derisive snort. \u2018I think it has a little more to do with the fact that he\u2019s a walking gold &#8211; mine for the woman who can succeed in getting him to be her baby &#8211; daddy. <em>He <\/em>might not want his family\u2019s fortune, but I for one, would not say no, and whoever has his baby has access to the famous Lyndon \u2013 Holt fortune<em>.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As those words reverberated, Rose chose that precise moment to overbalance and fall against the door of the cubicle with a clatter. She stiffened in horror as an awful silence descended over the powder room, and then she heard frantic hushed whispering and the rapid clickety &#8211; clack of heels as the women left again.<\/p>\n<p>She sat back on the seat and rubbed her shoulder where it had connected with the door. Hysteria rose. As those women had just pointed out \u2013 Zac Valenti was probably the man least likely to father a child, thanks to his well documented estrangements with his family; the cause of which no &#8211; one knew but it hadn&#8217;t stopped the endless speculation as to <em>why<\/em>. He hadn\u2019t even gone to his own father\u2019s funeral when he\u2019d died almost a year previously.<\/p>\n<p>After the rift and the death of his father, a new version of the Lyndon \u2013 Holts\u2019 will had been leaked to the press and it had revealed that if Zac had a child, boy or girl, that child would inherit the entire Lyndon \u2013 Holt fortune, in lieu of Zac. Many suspected that the details of the will had been leaked on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>So now, if Zac Valenti fathered a child, there would be immense pressure on him not to deny it its rightful inheritance, and the child\u2019s mother would have a say in this\u2026something Valenti was undoubtedly aware of, and which was probably behind the conveniently leaked will.<\/p>\n<p>Which brought Rose O\u2019Malley neatly back to the reason she was here in the first place. She was here to cold \u2013 bloodedly seduce Zac Valenti \u2013 one of the most coveted bachelors in the world \u2013 with the aim being, however impossible it might seem, to try and become pregnant with his child.<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s mind boggled anew at what she\u2019d agreed to. It was only now, a day later, that the panic and fear that had led her to that agreement had faded a little, restoring cold stark reality. And the realization that she\u2019d made a pact with the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Rose\u2019s conversation with her employer, Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt, was still vivid; as vivid as the beautifully preserved woman\u2019s ice &#8211; cold blue eyes. Zac Valenti\u2019s mother had held up the signed contract and said, \u2018You are now bound by the terms of this agreement, Rose. If you become pregnant with my son\u2019s child, and ensure that they take the Lyndon \u2013 Holt name, they will inherit what is rightfully theirs. And your father will go to a clinic and receive the best medical care for his condition.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt had continued, \u2018But, if you break the terms of the non \u2013 disclosure agreement and reveal these details to anyone, you will be prosecuted with the full force of my legal team. In the event that you do have a baby and you don\u2019t comply with these terms, I will crush you. Needless to say a legal contretemps between <em>me<\/em> &#8211; \u2019 she\u2019d looked Rose up and down pointedly here, \u2018and a <em>maid<\/em> isn\u2019t a fight you\u2019ll want to engage in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Not to mention the fact that your father will not benefit from my help.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude of what Rose had just agreed to and what was at stake had hit her. She\u2019d blurted out, \u2018What on earth makes you think a man like your son would look twice at someone like me?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The older woman had stood back and narrowed those calculating eyes. \u2018A man as cynical and jaded as Zachary? He\u2019ll look. He can\u2019t fail to notice a fresh \u2013 faced beauty like you. You just have to ensure that it goes beyond that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rose came back to the present and looked at herself in the mirror. She didn\u2019t feel fresh \u2013 faced, or beautiful. She felt ridiculous, tainted. Garish. With her hot cheeks and the slash of red lipstick. In a fit of self \u2013 disgust she grabbed some tissue and wiped the lipstick off her lips.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn\u2019t do this. She should never have agreed to such an outlandish plan.<\/p>\n<p>She stood up, galvanised to leave this place and inform Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt that she could find someone else to be her sick baby &#8211; bait, but the reason she\u2019d agreed to it in the first place came back like a slap in the face, and she sat back down again heavily. Her father. His face in pain. Pale. Losing hope. Far too young at fifty \u2013 two to be facing certain death if he didn\u2019t receive the operation he needed.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of operation that was far beyond the reach of an ex \u2013 chauffeur and humble maid, with only the most basic of health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>A fact that Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt had seized upon to use to her advantage, capitalising on Rose\u2019s fear and panic. Her father had worked as the Lyndon \u2013 Holts\u2019 driver until Mr Lyndon \u2013 Holt had passed away almost a year ago, after which Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt had taken on new staff, without so much as a thank you for years of service. Rose had kept her job however, and it had been a relief at the time. But shortly afterwards her father had started to feel unwell, culminating in the diagnosis of a rare and fatal heart condition, if not treated.<\/p>\n<p>Rose battled with her conscience now. The thought of her father succumbing to his inevitable decline was too much to bear. She\u2019d lost her mother already, far too young. Her father was all she had left. They had no other family in America. And he could be saved, easily. If he had the operation. The operation that Mrs Lyndon \u2013 Holt had agreed to pay for, if Rose did this.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at her glittering eyes and hectically flushed cheeks. She told herself that she would make an attempt to find Zac Valenti, but if she couldn\u2019t find him, or if she did, and he didn\u2019t look at her twice \u2013 which she fully expected \u2013 then she would go. And at least she would know that she\u2019d tried her best.<\/p>\n<p>And then, she would worry about what to do with her father. 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