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She hadn’t been able to shake the feeling that he was hiding soh

Per favore, not another woman

Do Not Trust

How she could she trust him? She didn’t kno

She did know that she wanted to She wanted to believe he would treat her with respect, that maybe one day

A rap on her door jolted her out of the trance she’d worked herself into

It was probably a irl who brought her breakfast everyhad been shocked when Alessandra had told her she would be walking to the chapel alone

Always alone

How she wished she’d sed her pride and called her brother and begged him to come Deep inside, a part of her had believed he would come, that he wouldn’t leave her to do this alone That he’d forgive her

This was his flesh and blood growing in her belly, the very reason she and Christian were prepared to take this ultimate step

Alone or not, she should have left already

Her stoazed at the French doors

She didn’t have to do this She could step out onto her balcony, unfold the eency stairs and escape Everyone was at the chapel The staff was busy organising all the celebrations It could be ages before anyone realised she wasn’t being traditionally late

She pictured Christian’s face when he realised she’d stood him up

She couldn’t do that to him Alessandra knew all about humiliation and would never intentionally inflict it on someone else, least of all him

And ould their innocent baby say when, at some point in the future, he or she learned what their mother had done to their father?

Another rap on the door re for her

Hurrying over, she opened it, pulling a smile onto her face that dropped as soon as she saho it was

Dressed in asuit, stood her brother