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Claiming His Baby
One irresistible night, and I’m f*ed.
Quite literally. It was nice. Hell, it was mindblowing.
But between my folks being uptight that I’ve only just recently turned eighteen—and his super strict Italian parents… especially after his dad finds out I was a virgin… sorry, Aronne—forgot to mention that. Also forgot to mention my recent graduation wasn’t from college.
He’s pissed. So is everyone but me. I don’t regret it, but what I do regret is being forced to marry him. His dad will disown him, and it’s looking like my mom is ready to throw me out, too.
The next time we’re together, now as man and wife. Well, Aronne knows how to send me over the edge. But he leaves me feeling used. Because he’s gone. My deception was too much, and he flies off to manage the company business in South America.
When he comes home two years later, I’m expecting it’s to finalize the divorce. He wasn’t expecting the baby bearing his name, and I wasn’t expecting him to break down my defenses and win me back.
Claiming His Baby is a 17k stand alone novella. A short read for an afternoon of fun romance with a bad boy alphahole who sees the light, some forceful action she loves, a wealthy billionaire, a secret baby, a woman in need of a firm hand, and daddy claiming his family.
Quite literally. It was nice. Hell, it was mindblowing.
But between my folks being uptight that I’ve only just recently turned eighteen—and his super strict Italian parents… especially after his dad finds out I was a virgin… sorry, Aronne—forgot to mention that. Also forgot to mention my recent graduation wasn’t from college.
He’s pissed. So is everyone but me. I don’t regret it, but what I do regret is being forced to marry him. His dad will disown him, and it’s looking like my mom is ready to throw me out, too.
The next time we’re together, now as man and wife. Well, Aronne knows how to send me over the edge. But he leaves me feeling used. Because he’s gone. My deception was too much, and he flies off to manage the company business in South America.
When he comes home two years later, I’m expecting it’s to finalize the divorce. He wasn’t expecting the baby bearing his name, and I wasn’t expecting him to break down my defenses and win me back.
Claiming His Baby is a 17k stand alone novella. A short read for an afternoon of fun romance with a bad boy alphahole who sees the light, some forceful action she loves, a wealthy billionaire, a secret baby, a woman in need of a firm hand, and daddy claiming his family.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2017
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July 8, 2019
OKAY this book is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone. There are some questionable things happening in this one
- sex scenes were iffy at best simply cause a) author kept using the word pussy and b) there was one where the male OC kept forcing himself onto her even though she keeps fighting it and then she gives into it and stops fighting so????? Consent was very questionable
- the book also has him leaving for two years and coming back going yah u know what I really liked u and had that special connection that one night and I wanna make this work cause I actually might love u WHICH IS SO UNBELIEVABLE BUT ALSO I'm trash and I could get past it
- sex scenes were iffy at best simply cause a) author kept using the word pussy and b) there was one where the male OC kept forcing himself onto her even though she keeps fighting it and then she gives into it and stops fighting so????? Consent was very questionable
- the book also has him leaving for two years and coming back going yah u know what I really liked u and had that special connection that one night and I wanna make this work cause I actually might love u WHICH IS SO UNBELIEVABLE BUT ALSO I'm trash and I could get past it
February 24, 2021
Audiobook Review:
3.7 The narration was alright, I thought she did ok with giving each character their own voice. A quick, fast paced story that I personally couldn’t stand the guy from the beginning through the very end but to each their own. Our heroine is strong yet easily bendable which bothered me at times but overall I’m happy to have heard their story.
3.7 The narration was alright, I thought she did ok with giving each character their own voice. A quick, fast paced story that I personally couldn’t stand the guy from the beginning through the very end but to each their own. Our heroine is strong yet easily bendable which bothered me at times but overall I’m happy to have heard their story.
October 8, 2018
4,5/5 stars
December 13, 2017
This was a nice novella but for more than half of the book, infact to the end I hated the hero. I know he was angry, deceived and ashamed but that was not an excuse for the way he treated heroine. The heroine was young, navie, infatuated, felt inferior and unworthy. I think she tried to seduce him but ended up deceiving him.
But still the hateful words he told her on their wedding night were unforgivable . At the beginning of the novel I wanted to throat punch him then mid novel kick him in his balls and by the of the book I flat out wanted to kill him.
I don't remember if he even said sorry to her. By the end he did treat her well only because he felt insecure and tried to put in some effort and be a better man but still he should have grovelled much more.
A short story worth reading once.
But still the hateful words he told her on their wedding night were unforgivable . At the beginning of the novel I wanted to throat punch him then mid novel kick him in his balls and by the of the book I flat out wanted to kill him.
I don't remember if he even said sorry to her. By the end he did treat her well only because he felt insecure and tried to put in some effort and be a better man but still he should have grovelled much more.
A short story worth reading once.
May 9, 2020
No romance. He was a horrible person. Like such an asshole that I wanted something really bad to happen to him. Sex scenes just kept making me visualize rape. I love bad boy romances but this guy is far from the classic moody, smart ass, hot as fuck trope. He more so resembles the the bad guy in a thriller who you are hoping suffers a horrible consequence for being such a scumbag. NO REDEEMABLE QUALITIES about this guy. And when it comes to books I’m not super picky and I am fairly easy to please but this book just ain’t it. I just felt uncomfortable. And to be faced with the possibility of this fucker trying to be a parent to a sweet innocent baby while threatening to take her from the only parent she has ever known literally made me fear for this fictional baby’s life which says a lot.
Dude is manipulative, toxic, and honestly someone that if you ever came across in life you should run very far away from.
0 stars if I could.
Dude is manipulative, toxic, and honestly someone that if you ever came across in life you should run very far away from.
0 stars if I could.
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January 26, 2018
So, I'm working my way through audio books, trying to find a good author, when I run across this one. I gotta say...it could be worse but it could have been a lot better. It's actually fairly well written and the narrator's voice wasn't bad (trust me, I've listened to narrators that have stopped my listening within the first few minutes so this is a definite plus!). There's conflict, good lead characters and the writing in and of itself shows great promise. However....
My biggest problem is that I felt...pushed to the end of the novel. The author has a really great story line, decent enough characters and the potential to make this book something great! That's what bother's me. I get that it's more a novella but the story is so complex that it could have been a truly, if not great, good romance! No...scratch that. It really could have been a great romance.
GRRR!!!!
Molly made a mistake, totally get letting your drunken hormones get the better of you, which lands her with a husband that doesn't want her and a baby she adores. After [spoiler alert] he consummates the marriage, Aronne tells Molly that she is a pale comparison to her sister and jets off for two years with zero communication, downright refusing any attempt on her part. Two years (which, let's face it, is a bit of a short time for the maturing process of a main female character that starts the book at 18 years old) later, he pops back into her life, wanting his heretofore unknown child and his wife back in his life. Problem is, I don't know any woman that wouldn't fight tooth and nail to keep a dickhead like that as far away from her as possible but Molly seems to give in with the barest amount of fighting. True, she does have some serious anger built up but Aronne just charms his way back into her bed within a week (basically less than a chapter) and in her home in no time.
Where is the gumption and the spine?! Where's the anger and hurt? Even an attempt at resisting?!!
Nope. Nada.
We all know the book will end in a happily ever after (hello romance) but the fact is, this story was rushed into it when it really needed more of a build up to the actual happily ever after. Also, zero mention of the guy she's dating after one scene...what a waste of story.
Frankly, I feel like this author really missed a shot at something great which makes me feel like her other writings could wind up just as lacking and that, more than anything else, is truly frustrating. That's like reaching for the stars and getting distracted by a fluffy cloud. Makes me sad since, besides being rushed, the story was actually fairly decent.
So sad.
My biggest problem is that I felt...pushed to the end of the novel. The author has a really great story line, decent enough characters and the potential to make this book something great! That's what bother's me. I get that it's more a novella but the story is so complex that it could have been a truly, if not great, good romance! No...scratch that. It really could have been a great romance.
GRRR!!!!
Molly made a mistake, totally get letting your drunken hormones get the better of you, which lands her with a husband that doesn't want her and a baby she adores. After [spoiler alert] he consummates the marriage, Aronne tells Molly that she is a pale comparison to her sister and jets off for two years with zero communication, downright refusing any attempt on her part. Two years (which, let's face it, is a bit of a short time for the maturing process of a main female character that starts the book at 18 years old) later, he pops back into her life, wanting his heretofore unknown child and his wife back in his life. Problem is, I don't know any woman that wouldn't fight tooth and nail to keep a dickhead like that as far away from her as possible but Molly seems to give in with the barest amount of fighting. True, she does have some serious anger built up but Aronne just charms his way back into her bed within a week (basically less than a chapter) and in her home in no time.
Where is the gumption and the spine?! Where's the anger and hurt? Even an attempt at resisting?!!
Nope. Nada.
We all know the book will end in a happily ever after (hello romance) but the fact is, this story was rushed into it when it really needed more of a build up to the actual happily ever after. Also, zero mention of the guy she's dating after one scene...what a waste of story.
Frankly, I feel like this author really missed a shot at something great which makes me feel like her other writings could wind up just as lacking and that, more than anything else, is truly frustrating. That's like reaching for the stars and getting distracted by a fluffy cloud. Makes me sad since, besides being rushed, the story was actually fairly decent.
So sad.
June 22, 2021
This book is just a big hell no for me is so many ways!!!! Let's start with the hero and heroine Molly and Aronne. Both Molly and Aronne are at Molly's older sisters engagement party celebrating the upcoming wedding. While Aronne is trying to drink his sorrows away. Molly see's an opportunity to finally get her crush alone and act on her feelings. She tells him where he can get more liquor and Aronne follows her greedily. Now that Molly and Aronne are alone in the study with drinks in hand they talk about the wedding, her graduation, and other things. Before you know it though Molly and Aronne are getting physical and instead of either of them stopping the inevitable they sleep together only to get caught by everyone and so the yelling, arguing, lies, confessions and now promises insue. Let me break this down for you.... When Molly and Aronne were in the study talking about Molly graduating Aronne thought she meant college not high school hint: she had just turned 18 years old. After they had slept together and were then caught lying naked together in the couch Aronne didn't think it was such a big deal until it was also discovered that not only was she a minor but she was also a virgin too. Here is where the arguments insue, Molly lied about her age, sexual status, and only wanted a good time and nothing else. Of course neither Aronne or Molly's parents wanted to leave things alone so either they got married or Aronne would be financially cut off. Seeing no other way out of this they agreed and got married but after the ceremony ended they slept together for the final time without protection and Aronne left the country only to return when it was time to get divorced based on the stipulations his father placed. Time passes, Aronne returns because his mother was sick only to discover that Molly had a little girl with her named Cara a daughter whom he knew nothing about. Instead of returning to finalize the divorce and be a free man he changes his mind and fights to stay married, make Molly fall in love with him again, be a part of his daughter's life, and become a family. In the end Aronne succeeds and he and Molly get their HEA.
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July 16, 2021
I couldn't make peace with the way story ended. The ending was fine and the part where hero says, "I don't deserve you" and heroine reply's with, "probably not", was perfect. I didn't like the part just before epilogue. I felt excepting hero was pretty abrupt, I would have love to see him struggle a bit more, okay way more. And except that I had issue with heroine not saying no. Even if heroine did say there sexual encounters were consensual, when you read it, doesn't seems like that. I don't know, things just doesn't sit right with me.
Anyways, I just gonna say it straight, I don't recommend this at all.
Anyways, I just gonna say it straight, I don't recommend this at all.
March 26, 2018
WTH?
I thought I'd enjoy this book but no, it was too much. Never mentioning the fact that she was a virgin, in my opinion, is unrealistic. Him showing up and making demands and getting his way? Well, in my world, that too is unrealistic. No female I know would have given in and still had feelings for a man who boldly states he wanted her sister but sexed her because she resembles her and is a pale comparison to the object of his lust.
This bad boy daddy is a punk and there is no romance.
I thought I'd enjoy this book but no, it was too much. Never mentioning the fact that she was a virgin, in my opinion, is unrealistic. Him showing up and making demands and getting his way? Well, in my world, that too is unrealistic. No female I know would have given in and still had feelings for a man who boldly states he wanted her sister but sexed her because she resembles her and is a pale comparison to the object of his lust.
This bad boy daddy is a punk and there is no romance.
December 6, 2021
Two words: PURPLE PROSE
The sex scenes weren't realistic. Purple prose all over the place. I don't know who has an orgasm in a few strokes of a finger or a couple of thrusts. Especially when drunk. Bad story development and bad character development. A bad boy romance? How about just a "bad romance".
The author and publisher made an error in publication. When the mother goes to the hospital, it's due to a heart attack. Five minutes later, the husband says it was a stroke. On top of that, you have Molly claiming "No" over and over again. No means no, not "keep going". So rape.
The sex scenes weren't realistic. Purple prose all over the place. I don't know who has an orgasm in a few strokes of a finger or a couple of thrusts. Especially when drunk. Bad story development and bad character development. A bad boy romance? How about just a "bad romance".
The author and publisher made an error in publication. When the mother goes to the hospital, it's due to a heart attack. Five minutes later, the husband says it was a stroke. On top of that, you have Molly claiming "No" over and over again. No means no, not "keep going". So rape.
December 27, 2021
I was like,"cute," highschooler entices crush. Just for a kiss. In the basement, but he wants more. Thinking she was in college. They have sex. Parents and newly engaged sister, found them. Sleeping on the floor. 4 days later, they are married. He leaves to manage family holdings in Brazil. Until mother in-law, ends up in the hospital.
Yeah! I understand short stories have limitations. This ain't it! #IAWThoughts
Yeah! I understand short stories have limitations. This ain't it! #IAWThoughts
December 23, 2020
OMGosh, OMGosh, OMGosh!!!! Each and every page... 😍😍😍
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel from the first page until the very last. It has been a very rare occurrence that I could just pick up a book and read it in one day; but, I was captivated by these characters and their amazing love story instantaneously.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel from the first page until the very last. It has been a very rare occurrence that I could just pick up a book and read it in one day; but, I was captivated by these characters and their amazing love story instantaneously.
February 5, 2021
It wasn't bad per say, it just gave me the heebi jeebies. I do not know how she forgave him after being abandoned for two years. The saving grace was that he didn't cheat on her for that time, not for his lack of trying tough. It was entirely to short for my liking, if there was more of them reconciling maybe it would have been easier to understand.
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August 19, 2017
Satisfying quick read
No cliffhanger, the story spans over two years and is a snapshot of the lives of Arrone and Molly telling of the breakup and their reconciliation. Good afternoon read. Would not mind reading a story of the couple Margot and Cristiano.
No cliffhanger, the story spans over two years and is a snapshot of the lives of Arrone and Molly telling of the breakup and their reconciliation. Good afternoon read. Would not mind reading a story of the couple Margot and Cristiano.
March 30, 2021
i hated this book although i liked the way the author wrote the book i did not like that the male lead is an awful person and molly just accepted his shit and was passive he was manipulating, blackmailing ass needs to get hurt by her.
May 12, 2021
It's a novella, it's supposed to be short. He's a bad boy, you're supposed to hate him. She's young and fumbling her way through. He see's her as a young girl and comes back two years later to find she's not only a woman, but the mother of his child. It was well written and I enjoyed it.
March 11, 2022
It wasn’t a bad book but I was expecting more plot but it was good. Mostly now that I’ve been only been reading Cora Riley‘s book and that’s only thing I’ve been listening to and thinking about so it was a new changes on books. But I’m Comparing any other book I’m trying to read with Cora Riley
September 1, 2017
A good story. Novella so quite short but it works.
September 25, 2017
A Good Short Read
A nice short afternoon read with all the emotional elements that make a good romance. Now on to the next!
A nice short afternoon read with all the emotional elements that make a good romance. Now on to the next!
May 14, 2018
Wouldn’t want anything to do with him after what he did and said on wedding.
August 11, 2018
It's ok for a freebie but I didn't feel the love at all and it was cliche in the beginning.
April 26, 2019
It was a good Read! short but good! the guy was a total Ass Hole! and the main girl was a total dumb ass for taking him back!, he wanted her sister in the first place! Hello!
in the end it was good!
in the end it was good!
November 14, 2020
I enjoyed this emotional little journey but I felt it ended rather abruptly. The female narrator did a good job with the female and male characters.
November 12, 2021
This is a quick short story. The emotion is written in this book very well. The characters are good and I found the storyline intriguing. A great performance.
November 18, 2021
Oh no... that's all I have to say to this.
June 20, 2023
Just... no💗🫶
May 15, 2020
plot holes, story itself isn't that interesting - even if you're only in it for some smut, and dubious consent?
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