title: The Italian's Pregnant Virgin (Heirs Before Vows)
author:  Maisey Yates 
description: New York Times<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in rural Oregon with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled jaw and arresting features continue to make her swoon. She feels the epic trek she takes several times a day from her office to her coffee maker is a true example of her pioneer spirit.</span>
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  ‘ **If you carry my child, as you** **state emphatically that you do,**
  **there is only one course of action.** **In half an hour we will leave for**
  **Rome and we will be married.**
  
  ‘Much as the thought of marrying you turns my insides, it’s not an institution
  I’ve ever held in any esteem, so it won’t cost me any emotion. It’ll ensure
  legitimacy from the outset for the Valentini heir, and I can keep an eye on
  your every move. It’ll also save my reputation; our shares have already been
  dropping in value on the back of this potential scandal.’
  
  Cara felt the colour draining from her face as she struggled to take this in.
  ‘Never. I’d never marry someone like you,’ she breathed with horror.
  
  Vincenzo went ominously still and said silkily, ‘Then are you willing to sign
  a legal document to renounce all claims that this child is mine? And to vow
  that you will have no further contact with me for the rest of your life?
  Because that is the only othe