Bridegroom Bodyguard

Bridegroom Bodyguard
Lisa Childs

In Lisa Childs's Shotgun Weddings miniseries, a confirmed bachelor must walk down the aisle to protect his newborn son Someone is trying to kill bodyguard Parker Payne. But what's more shocking is the woman who shows up claiming he's the father of her child. The baby boy is Parker's spitting image, but how could he have forgotten a passionate encounter with this woman with caramel eyes?Sharon Wells has raised Parker's son since his birth. Now with a homicidal maniac coming after her and her son, it's Parker's unexpected proposal that may be the real danger. Sharon knows Parker just wants to protect them. But with passion flaring and a murderer intent on completing his personal mission, any distraction could mean the difference between life and death.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I don’t know who you are.”

She sighed. “I hoped you would—that you might …”

“Why?” he asked.

“Because it would’ve made this easier if you were expecting me,” she replied.

Expecting her? He hadn’t been expecting anything else—not the bombs or the shootings being meant for him. Why the hell would he have expected her?

“Make what easier?” he asked.

Was she a hit woman? A hired assassin?

He glanced around for his holster and weapon—but it, like his clothes, were nowhere in sight. Neither was any of his damn family.

He’d thought they weren’t going to leave him alone.

“What I have to tell you,” she said. Then she drew in a deep breath, as if to brace herself, and continued, “That this is your son.”

Bridegroom

Bodyguard

Lisa Childs

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Bestselling, award-winning author LISA CHILDS writes paranormal and contemporary romance for Mills & Boon. She lives on thirty acres in Michigan with her two daughters, a talkative Siamese and a long-haired Chihuahua who thinks she’s a rottweiler. Lisa loves hearing from readers, who can contact her through her website, www.lisachilds.com (http://www.lisachilds.com), or snail-mail address, PO Box 139, Marne, MI 49435, USA.

With much love and appreciation for my daughters Ashley & Chloe Theeuwes.

You are both exceptionally smart and strong and beautiful young women. You have made your mother very proud!

Contents

Cover (#u4186bf5a-1891-57d2-b72d-9baca633da2d)

Introduction (#u2843fdae-6ec9-59b4-9ade-b4e17bf7ae49)

Title Page (#u92ee0f04-d142-57ef-8f96-b2a0b32b48bd)

About the Author (#ub8f0e9f4-604c-5fd5-9028-e18acc9a5819)

Dedication (#u1d3c4bcd-032d-5d46-9ecb-55ccf5a1459c)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Extract

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#u4176328c-4ce7-5e0d-8a4b-20d70d46b910)

Someone put out a hit on Parker Payne.

The statement echoed inside Parker’s head, but it wasn’t the only echo. His ears rang yet from the blast of the explosion that had sent him to the hospital and two Payne Protection Agency employees to the morgue.