She's Having the Boss's Baby - By Kate Carlisle Page 0,36

Hell, you’ve been half in love with her ever since she started working here.”

Aidan’s eyes narrowed on his brother. “What did you just say?”

“Oh, just admit it,” Logan said, ignoring Aidan’s threatening glare. “Remember when you introduced her to that idiot Blake, then got completely pissed off when they started dating? You’re so transparent, it’s ridiculous. So now you’re finally sleeping with her. It’s not such a stretch to predict that you’ll fall in love with her. Especially if you have a child together.”

Aidan had to shake his head a few times to make sure his ears were really hearing those words. “Okay, you just went off the deep end, bro.”

“Say whatever you want in your own defense,” Logan drawled. “But I’m telling you, you did all this because you love her.”

Ridiculous.

Seriously, it was sad to see how fast Logan’s brain had turned to sludge after his wedding.

“Oh, man. Oh, no. Dude, you’re pathetic,” Aidan had said, hanging his head in sorrow. “Barely one day back from your honeymoon and you’re already deluded into thinking the whole world’s in love. Birdies singing in the trees, rainbows dancing in the sky, unicorns frolicking in the jungle. Snap out of it, man. You’re embarrassing both of us.”

Logan held up both hands. “I’m just telling it like I see it.”

“I’d get my vision checked if I were you.”

Logan had laughed uproariously and shortly after that, he’d taken off to meet Grace.

It was a new low in brotherly accusations, Aidan thought as he took another bite of his fully loaded cheeseburger. He still couldn’t believe his own brother had charged him with being in love with Ellie. It was worse than pitiable. It was a sad, sad cliché. Now that Logan had gone and gotten married, he wanted everyone else to be in love. Well, good luck with that.

Aidan shook his head again, feeling nothing but sorry for Logan. He felt sorry for Grace, too, because his brother was clearly in need of psychiatric care.

On the other hand, he mused, Logan was right about one thing. Ellie was gorgeous. Of course, Logan had no idea just how gorgeous since he wasn’t the one who’d seen her in that bikini. A good thing, too, because Aidan would have to kill him if he had.

That had nothing to do with love, by the way, he assured himself. That was just pure male defensive action. No man wanted other guys checking out the woman he was… Aidan frowned. The woman he was currently having sex with. Right. That’s all it was.

The image of Ellie in her dripping wet bikini halted his thought process for a few minutes before he managed to get his mind back to the subject at hand. Logan and his wacko thinking.

Yes, his brother was right when he said that Aidan liked Ellie. Why wouldn’t he? They had worked together closely for four years now, and Ellie traveled with Aidan any time they went to meet with investors. The two of them agreed on almost everything and had a great time together whenever they traveled together. Negotiations were always more fun when Ellie was there with him. Aidan loved watching her come up with all sorts of obscure facts and figures in an instant to impress the investors and their accountants.

Okay, Aidan didn’t actually mean that he loved watching her do those tricks with numbers. He just meant that he liked it. He was impressed and entertained by her. That’s all. He didn’t mean love, as in I love you. He just meant…

“Oh hell, enough already,” he muttered, and stuffed a French fry into his mouth. “Chill out. Jeez.”

This was all Logan’s fault. His brother had wigged out over the whole love issue and now Aidan was second-guessing every last word in his head.

Funny how Logan was the big “love expert” these days, considering that both of them had once felt the same way about that useless emotion. Part of their cynicism had come from the complete lack of love their mother had shown them and their father. But their scorn had grown with their life on the surfing circuit, where every woman they’d met had seemed more than willing to pledge her eternal love just to get close to the celebrated twin brothers. Love was a joke.

Hell, his brother had been even more scornful about love than Aidan, considering that the one time Logan had actually convinced himself he was in love, he’d gone and married a woman who had cheated on him