The Grump I Slept With

The Hating Game meets Knocked Up-with a grumpy billionaire Scot, a fake relationship, and one very inconvenient pair of pink lines.It was supposed to be one night.A reckless, alcohol-fueled mistake with an arrogant, insufferable Scot who looked like he’d stepped out of a gladiator fantasy and into my bed.No promises. No strings. No future.Then two little pink lines flipped my world upside down.Now, Locke Fraser- billionaire developer, professional menace, and father of my unborn child-is back in town. And not for me. He’s got big plans for the little plot of land I used to call home-bulldozing my past to build a five-star, ultra-luxury boutique hotel.Hard pass.Except my father has an even worse betrayal planned: selling the property to a corporation that wants to slap down a soul-sucking factory instead.Suddenly Locke’s hotel is looking like the lesser evil.And I hate that he knows it.Enter Locke’s solution, delivered with that infuriatingly confident charm:We fake a relationship.Play the blissfully-in-love couple.Convince my dad the hotel is the lesser evil.Save the land.Simple. Strategic. Definitely no feelings involved.Except pretending to adore a man who can melt me with a single look-and make me want to throttle him the next-turns out to be dangerously convincing.And the longer we play house, the blurrier the lines get.Does Locke want me...or just the land beneath my feet?And when did I start caring enough to risk my heart finding out?