More Than Forever (Providence Series Book 2) Read Online Free

carefully. 
    Twins …I couldn’t believe that I was having twins. This was the sort of thing that happened in movies or books, not to me - plain, old Isla Banks. I’d never understood why Luke had been with me when I moved to Piersville and I’d fought it, but he’d been adamant and relentless. Then seeing the photos of him with Kendal, it all made sense; I’d been a filler. Something to pass the time. My stepmother Jodie and stepsister Calista had always made sure that I knew that I was nothing and that I was an “ugly duckling” whilst Calista had always been the glowing swan. She was my total opposite. This was why Luke being so adamant hadn’t made any sense. Oh my God, what would they say when they found out that I was pregnant with Luke’s babies?  
    “I don’t like the expression on your face right now,” he muttered from right beside me. I hadn’t even heard him walk up beside me I’d been thinking so hard.  
    He folded his tall body into the comfortable looking chair beside me. The hospital that I was in, Gleneagles, was beautiful inside; we most definitely wouldn’t get this back at home. The room that I was in was like a hotel room with a wall length window looking out over Napier Road. It wasn’t much of a view out of the window, but I’d been in this area a couple of days before for an event at the Filipino Embassy. I was also a regular visitor to the Singaporean Botanic Gardens, which were so close by that you could just see the green of them; in short, it was luxury. 
    Focusing back in on Luke, I finally broke my silence and asked the one question that had been eating away at me. 
    “Why are you here?” 
    “Because you’re here.” He said it like it was such an obvious reply, but none of this made sense to me. 
    “Isn’t your girlfriend upset that you’ve travelled all of this way for another woman? I mean, I don’t know her, but she seems like the type of person who wouldn't put up with that.” Then it hit me. “If it’s about the babies, then don’t worry. I won’t tell her; in fact, I won’t tell anyone, so you don’t have to worry.” Even saying it tore something else inside me; why couldn’t this man just stop hurting me? 
    Luke quickly got out of his chair, wincing slightly at the sudden movement, and loomed over me. “Get this straight, Angel, I’m not with that bitch. I never was! She knew it and I knew it, it was for business purposes only.”  
    “Oh my God, you can’t stop, can you?” I hated that I was starting to cry. He’d basically just admitted that he’d ruined me for the sake of the business; I’d meant that little to him. “Get out! I can’t take anymore.” I was sobbing now and trying to hide my face, I was done! 
    “Isla,” he growled picking me up and sitting down on the bed with me on his lap. “I don’t know what you’re thinking right now, but it’s not the truth,” he said stroking my hair and my back and rocking me slightly. “Kendal was…a couple of months before you arrived in Piersville, I was looking at ways to increase the profile of the company. We were doing well and had a lot of high profile contracts, but I wanted us to be more high profile than we were. I met Kendal and her father during a cocktail party in Houston and had remembered all of the newspaper articles on him that featured her beside him. My grand plan had been if I was seen with her and people believed that we were in a relationship, there would be more press coverage of Montgomery’s.” 
    Still rubbing my rigid back, he continued on. “I met her at a restaurant the following night and pitched my suggestion to her. She had a reputation as a wild child, getting drunk every night and getting photographed in embarrassing situations. Her father had been putting pressure on her to calm down or he’d pull her funding because it was having a negative impact on his business dealings. The agreement was that she would help me and I would help her keep