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‘I am not prepared to have this discussion in the back of a car,’ he said grimly

‘But’

‘Ochi!’ he said with such finality she cla

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ONCE INSIDE THE APARTMENT, Alessandra hurried to hang up her jacket and re to ?’

‘No’ Christian’s ansas curt She could feel his anger rippling beneath the surface, just as it had on the drive back from the restaurant when he’d sat beside her with arhtly she could see the muscles bunched beneath his shirt

Now his hands were raht for the kitchen area and with shaking hands filled the kettle Camomile tea, while not theabilities Maybe it would help soothe the tu her

Dio l’aiuti, she loved him

‘I’s,’ Christian said in a tone calm and reasonable She could hear the undercurrent of wrath beneath it, though ‘I took Kerstin on at your behest’

Keeping her back to hi from the container ‘You wanted her anyway’ How could he not? Kerstin was perfect She was everything that she, Alessandra, was not For a start, Kerstin would never be so careless about contraception If Christian was to have a family with the German woman it would be because they both chose it and not out of a sense of duty

‘Not in the way you’re i’

‘You should’

‘What should I want? To sleep with her?’

Did he really expect her to believe his incredulity? This froht they’d exchanged their vows He hadn’t laid a single finger on her

‘Why not? She’s a beautiful, intelligent woreed ‘That doesn’t mean I want to have sex with her’