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“That I’ the conversation over so she could take a hot shower “I know ns are there” Including the pain of the endoes she had had the other night

“As I said, your period is no guarantee”

“I told you I would have the tests I don’t understand e have to argue about it Can’t we drop this conversation noant to change and go to bed”

“Yes, you agreed to have the tests, but you also told me that you wanted to have my baby very much I do not knohat to believe I do not understand”

And he could not let it drop until he did

Tears that should have been i how much she had cried already, burned the back of her eyes “I did want to have your baby”

She still did, which made her stupid as well as a complete failure in the love stakes

“Did…past tense”

“What do you expect? No wonant by a e”

At least she shouldn’t, but the thought that he would not let her go if she was pregnant taunted her, ry at herself for doing so Bored or not, he would never allow the mother of his child to walk away

“I do not knohat to expect froer, Therese I do not understand you,” he said again, his undertone one of angry bewilderht I knew you well, but discovered I was very wrong in that assumption”

“What difference does it make? You’re bored hat you do know You said so” She spun away and rushed into the bathroo to let him see how much those words hurt

She stripped and stepped into the oversize shower stall Not because she wanted another shower after the long one she’d taken in the hotel, but because it was the one place she could safely vent her emotions She turned on the taps and icy cold jets of water hit her from five directions

Her id teistered before the water started to warm to her preset selection on the control panel by the door Pleasantly hot water was cascading down her body when she felt another presence in the cubicle

She turned around, her , but they were not Claudio was there just as she had known he would be

He stoodin rivulets down his bronze chest “I decided not to wait on asped

“But why should I? We’ve done this togetheris different now”