{"id":854,"date":"2023-07-16T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=854"},"modified":"2024-04-28T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:50:43","slug":"hidden-heir-with-his-housekeeper","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/hidden-heir-with-his-housekeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Heir with His Housekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-b0aiv-e285b79aa7917100fdf2cfd828fa6bf6 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-854'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k3yawgpy-aaec2bcc3d6e2bd36099f1f320b1a9ac\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-aaec2bcc3d6e2bd36099f1f320b1a9ac{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-aaec2bcc3d6e2bd36099f1f320b1a9ac .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-aaec2bcc3d6e2bd36099f1f320b1a9ac .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-k3yawgpy-aaec2bcc3d6e2bd36099f1f320b1a9ac av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  av-linked-heading'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Hidden Heir with His Housekeeper<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c\">\n.flex_column.av-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-jycr59r9-74850ab5814e59cab7873f4109edc1d0'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>When an heiress falls from grace, her baby\u2019s billionaire father will catch her and claim her in this surprise pregnancy romance by USA TODAY bestselling author\u00a0<strong>Heidi Rice<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>From innocent heiress&#8230; <\/strong><strong><em>To pregnant housekeeper!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Self-made billionaire Mason Foxx would never forget the sizzling encounter he had with society princess Bea Medford. But his empire comes first\u2014anything more than a night is an indulgence he can\u2019t afford. Months later,\u00a0at a hotel in Italy,\u00a0he gets the ultimate shock. Bea isn\u2019t just the housekeeper there\u2014she\u2019s carrying his child!<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant. Disgraced. Disowned by her family. Alone for the first time, Bea is doing whatever it takes to protect her unborn child. But coming face-to-face with Mason throws her plan into chaos. Because he has his own\u2026demanding Bea return to London with him!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Medford Sisters:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two incredible women, two surprise pregnancies, two twisted fairytales and two badass British billionaires&#8230; What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>#1: <a href=\"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/a-baby-to-tame-the-wolfe\/\"><i>A Baby to Tame the Wolfe<\/i><\/a> \u2013 Katie and Jack, a reboot of Little Red Riding Hood<br \/>\n#2: <i>Hidden Heir with His Housekeeper<\/i> \u2013 Bea and Mason, a reboot of Rapunzel<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706\">\n.flex_column.av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706 av_one_fourth  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.av-special-heading.av-zxva-79f0c98a10dcc42acae10e6c5c543a5f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-zxva-79f0c98a10dcc42acae10e6c5c543a5f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-zxva-79f0c98a10dcc42acae10e6c5c543a5f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-zxva-79f0c98a10dcc42acae10e6c5c543a5f av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-11  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Excerpt:<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-23cmn3-27a5863ea9b5f1064b40297f6f46d813'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Mason Foxx stood at the eighty-foot-long champagne bar, carved out of a single piece of mahogany, and nursed a lukewarm glass of 1959 Dom Perignon. He gazed at the guests making pointless small talk and gorging themselves on the free cordon bleu canap\u00e9s in the cavernous warehouse space below, decked out in fake greenery to launch a male fragrance which smelled like mould, in his humble opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The former power station on the South Bank of the River Thames had been gutted and rehabbed a few years ago, and eventually converted into this stunning entertainment venue.<\/p>\n<p>His lips quirked in wry amusement. Funny to think this ultra-modern, minimalist palace of steel and concrete was within spitting distance of the hole where he\u2019d grown up.<\/p>\n<p>He rubbed his thumb over the scar on his eyebrow\u2014a habitual gesture which reminded him of his childhood, and how hard he\u2019d fought to ensure he never ended up back in that hole again.<\/p>\n<p>His smile became tinged with contempt.<\/p>\n<p>Not one of these pampered narcissists knew what it was like to fight for every single thing you needed to survive. Then again, the hotel empire he had worked his backside off to create came with social commitments like this one, which were nowhere near as much of an adrenaline rush as living by your wits on the mean streets of Bermondsey. Truth was, he\u2019d almost rather be getting a kicking at The Dog and Duck\u2014where fortunes had changed hands faster than the packets of little pills with smiley faces on\u2014than sipping overpriced bubbles, bored out of his skull.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, The Dog and Duck had been bulldozed ten years ago, and Bermondsey was now as gentrified as the rest of Southwark, while the villains he\u2019d been terrified of as a boy were all banged up or dead. But at least those criminals had personality, unlike the array of dull, talentless nepo babies, corporate suits and limelight hoggers who turned up at these events like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>He placed the fancy flute on the bar. Time to head back to the empty penthouse suite he kept at The Foxx Grand in Belgravia, or his equally soulless loft apartment at Foxx Suites overlooking Tower Bridge, if he was getting sentimental about the bad old days\u2014and the villains who had once made his life a misery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Would you like a fresh glass, sir?\u2019 the eager-to-please young barman asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No, thanks, mate, I\u2019m driving. And don\u2019t call me sir,\u2019 he replied.<\/p>\n<p>The kid blushed and let out a forced laugh. But then the barman\u2019s eyes widened as he caught sight of something over Mason\u2019s left shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wow,\u2019 the boy murmured, his expression awestruck. \u2018She\u2019s even more stunning in the flesh.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mason turned, expecting to be underwhelmed by whoever the kid was staring at.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d dated his fair share of stunning women, and in his experience looks were overrated\u2014because they often came with zero personality. But then he spotted her too.<\/p>\n<p>His mind blanked and his heartbeat slowed\u2014then ramped up to about five thousand beats per second. Stunning didn\u2019t even begin to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>In a fragile, floaty sky-blue gown which clung to her subtle curves and sparkled in the million and one fairy lights which lit the warehouse\u2019s exclusive balcony bar, the girl had the sort of regal beauty guys a lot classier than he was would once have written sonnets about.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered if her skin could be as soft and luscious as it appeared.<\/p>\n<p>The urge to plunge his fingers into the blonde curls perched on top of her head in an expertly constructed hairdo kicked him in the gut.<\/p>\n<p><em>What the hell?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He shoved his fists into his trousers pockets. He might be more than happy to indulge his baser instincts, but even he had never wanted a woman with this much intensity at first sight. He didn\u2019t like it, because it reminded him of the feral kid he\u2019d once been\u2014always on the outside looking in at other people\u2019s perfect lives.<\/p>\n<p>Her gaze coasted towards him, almost as if she could sense him watching her from the other side of the bar. And he got an eyeful of her delicate, perfectly symmetrical features.<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her face was as striking as the rest of her. Her bone structure was like a work of art while the smoky gunk around her eyes made them look huge\u2026 And strangely guileless.<\/p>\n<p>Which had to be an act. No woman who carried herself with such effortless sensuality would be unaware of the challenge her I\u2019m-too-perfect-to-touch appearance would present to every heterosexual bloke in the place.<\/p>\n<p>Her tongue flicked out to moisten her lips in a nervous gesture which would have been endearing if it weren\u2019t so hot.<\/p>\n<p>It had the desired effect though, directing his voracious gaze to her mouth. Her plump, dewy lips glistened, and looked so kissable his throat became drier than the Gobi Desert.<\/p>\n<p>He swallowed and sucked in a breath, annoyed to realise the rush of blood draining below his belt was making him lightheaded. But despite his disintegrating brain power, or maybe because of it, he could not stop staring.<\/p>\n<p>But then those big doe eyes widened as her gaze finally connected with his, and she jolted.<\/p>\n<p>What was that about? However goddess-like she appeared, surely she couldn\u2019t read his filthy mind from twenty paces? Before he could decide how to react\u2014still spellbound by her artless beauty\u2014she turned and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>For several heartbeats he stood like a dummy, staring at the place where she\u2019d been, trying to figure out if she had been real\u2014or a figment of his sex-starved imagination. He hadn\u2019t dated for over a month, after all. Not since Della had started making noises about moving in with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wow,\u2019 the barman whispered. \u2018Why do they call her the Ice Queen when she\u2019s so hot?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Who is she?\u2019 Mason demanded, wishing for once he took an interest in celebrity gossip.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Th\u2026That\u2019s Beatrice Medford,\u2019 the guy stuttered. \u2018Lord Henry Medford\u2019s daughter.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Medford\u2019s daughter? Seriously? He knew Medford, in passing. He\u2019d met the guy a couple of times at the exclusive Mayfair club Mason had joined a few years back, mostly just to piss off the posh nobs who hung out there. The man was a pompous ass who had inherited a fortune and then lost most of it\u2026 Because he wouldn\u2019t know a good investment if it sucker-punched him in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>How could a woman that stunning have come from Medford\u2019s inbred gene pool?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She\u2019s also Jack Wolfe\u2019s sister-in-law,\u2019 the barman supplied. \u2018They were engaged a few years ago, but he ended up marrying her older sister, Katherine, of Cariad Cakes. It was all over the tabloids,\u2019 the barman finished, falling over himself to answer Mason\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>Mason stared some more at the empty spot across the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe. He knew Jack Wolfe a lot better than Medford. They came from similar working class backgrounds. And, like Mason, Wolfe was smart and ambitious and a ruthless businessman. Or at least he had been, until he\u2019d got married and had a kid, and softened right up.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d met Wolfe\u2019s wife too. And while the woman had an earthy, voluptuous, force of nature kind of beauty, which had obviously enslaved Wolfe, Mason would not have put Katherine Wolfe in the same gene pool as the goddess he\u2019d just stripped naked with his thoughts either.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Is that right?\u2019 he said to the barman, with an insouciance he didn\u2019t feel. Desire was still pumping through him in a way he hadn\u2019t felt in far too long. Maybe right back to when he\u2019d been a teenager and had craved the kind of human contact he\u2019d only ever found in sex.<\/p>\n<p>The thought made him uneasy.<\/p>\n<p>So, the goddess was a daughter of the aristocracy. If she were priceless antique porcelain, that would make him the knock-off kitchenware you could buy in bulk at any South London street market.<\/p>\n<p>It figured. That had to be where the regal grace came from\u2014wealth, privilege and a sense of superiority he had always found a pain in the arse.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it had been a long time since he\u2019d enjoyed the thrill of the chase and maybe knocking a princess off her pedestal would salvage this evening\u2019s entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Strolling over to the balcony, he searched the crowd. He spotted her instantly, her blonde hair like a beacon.<\/p>\n<p>The warehouse lights dimmed and a world-famous DJ opened his set from a stage at the far end of the cavernous space.<\/p>\n<p>Mason headed down the winding metal staircase leading to the dancefloor, already full of people moving to the beat. The music pulsed, while multi-coloured lasers slashed through plumes of artificial smoke, ramping up the throb of anticipation in his gut.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it was doubtful he\u2019d still want Medford\u2019s untouchable daughter after having a conversation with her\u2014given his low tolerance for snooty society princesses\u2014but there was only one way to find out.<\/p>\n<p>He spotted the blonde chignon taking the stairs opposite him. Was she heading for the exit? So soon?<\/p>\n<p><em>Not so fast, love\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><em>Who was that guy? Looking at me as if he wanted to gobble me up in a few greedy bites\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Medford lifted the hem of her designer gown and shot up the stairs towards the first-floor balcony.<\/p>\n<p>She really ought to be outraged. Bar Guy\u2019s gaze had roamed over her body with an insolent entitlement she\u2019d never encountered before. Men usually gazed at her with awe, or adoration. Because all they ever saw was the sheen of class, the shield of respectability, the sexless and untouchable grace which was all part of the fa\u00e7ade her father had created.<\/p>\n<p>But she hadn\u2019t been outraged at all\u2014if she were being entirely honest with herself, what she\u2019d actually been was\u2026well, turned on.<\/p>\n<p>Which was seriously weird for two reasons: she didn\u2019t get turned on by male attention. Because she got enough of it to know it had no real connection to who she was inside. And also because she had no desire to even be here, wearing this far too revealing dress and uncomfortable five-inch heels, simply because her father had demanded it of her.<\/p>\n<p>She shouldn\u2019t have let him bully her into \u2018being seen\u2019 at tonight\u2019s event. Because she knew exactly what his decision to hire her a stylist and a designer gown at vast expense and demand she come to the Cascade Scent launch was really all about. It was just another of Henry Medford\u2019s increasingly desperate attempts to shore up his flagging finances by hooking his daughter up with the nearest eligible billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, in his study, he\u2019d even given her a shortlist of men he thought it would be suitable for her to \u2018engage with\u2019 tonight\u2014his cold, assessing glare raking over her with a chilling mix of calculation and contempt. If that hadn\u2019t been enough of a wake-up call to his demeaning intentions, his preposterous list had included a three times divorced investment banker who was older than he was, and a boutique hotel magnate who\u2019d dragged himself out of a notorious South London council estate and was well known for dating and dumping beautiful women with the same ruthless efficiency he\u2019d acquired his property portfolio,<\/p>\n<p><em>Gee, thanks, Daddy, why not tell me you\u2019re pimping me out without telling me you\u2019re pimping me out?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She sighed as she reached one of the venue\u2019s many secret bars and gazed at the throng of gyrating bodies blocking her route to the exit.<\/p>\n<p>She should have told her father to take a hike this time. The way her sister Katie had been suggesting she do for years. Instead of allowing herself to be parcelled up like a mannequin in shoes that made her arches ache and a practically transparent dress and deposited at an event where she would rather fade into the high-end furnishings than \u2018engage with\u2019 one of the men her father had suggested, who were no doubt just like him.<\/p>\n<p>As if one unconscionable overbearing bastard in her life wasn\u2019t enough!<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d been terrified of her father once\u2026 Back when she was twelve years old and she\u2019d watched him rant and rave and kick her sixteen-year-old sister out of the house. It still disgusted Bea that she had done not one thing to help Katie, because she\u2019d been too busy cowering in a corner with her hands over her ears, pretending to be invisible.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019d discovered in the past few years, ever since she\u2019d asked Katie to dump the fianc\u00e9 her father had lined up for her\u2014because Bea had been completely overwhelmed by Jack Wolfe\u2019s forceful personality\u2014and then watched her brilliant, beautiful and entirely independent sister make a life with Wolfe instead, it was past time she got a life of her own.<\/p>\n<p>Which meant no longer kowtowing to her father\u2019s agenda\u2014or relying on his money.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u2019t terrified of him any more\u2014and she had options now. She\u2019d spent the last two years, on the afternoons she was supposed to be at the beauticians or the gym or \u2018lunching\u2019 with the \u2018friends\u2019 she had never really liked from her finishing school in Lausanne, attending classes which Katie had paid for. She had a natural ability for learning languages, her ear attuned to the nuances of pronunciation, her mind fascinated by the intricacies of grammar and verb constructions. And she hoped one day to make a career out of her skill. Although she hadn\u2019t quite figured out how yet.<\/p>\n<p>Katie, of course, had also offered her a place to stay with her and Jack and their toddler son, Luca, at their home in Mayfair. But there was only so much of Katie\u2019s charity Bea could accept without destroying what was left of her pride.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, knowing she had no intention of attracting the nearest billionaire so he could shore up her father\u2019s ailing finances tonight was a lot easier than saying no to him\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She would find a way out from under her father\u2019s influence eventually, she told herself staunchly. But she had to do it under her own steam. Unfortunately, planning and thinking and then overthinking her options was one of Bea\u2019s super powers. 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