Love's Lost Past — Kate Hofman

When Jason and Lexi meet at last, he is incensed that she kept her pregnancy secret, he would have come back and married her. His 8-year old son, Raph, adores his father, somewhat to Lexi's dismay. She wants to be the only parent in her son's life. Jason reveals her innate selfishness in denying him his rightful place as Raph's father. Realizing Raphael may not want to employ a woman who is so ungenerous to his brother, she agrees to a marriage in name only, for the sake of her son. When Lexi has to fly to New York to initiate changes in accounting, Jason's father forces a meeting with this common conniver, as he calls Lexi. Terrified, she phones Jason for help. Will his help consist of protecting Lexi by throwing his father out of the apartment, or will he stay to help Lexi surrender to the love there was, once, between them?