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‘I’el disconcerted her with a look of sympathy that hurt her pride as much as a slap would have done

‘Well, I’ her chin

‘Maybe you did’ Angel trailed out the word, letting her knoasn’t convinced by her face-saving claiuidance My own ed in every financial way, but essentially without parents who cared enough about her to discipline her She’s well past fifty now, although she doesn’t look it, but she’s still a rebellious teenager in her own head I want o hen she beco with every temptation’

Involuntarily iu way off and if I don’t stand in the way of her having a relationship with you now, you’ll still be around’

Angel lounged back in his chair and crossed an ankle over one knee, long, powerful thigh eously relaxed, as if he were posing for a publicity shot, and drop-dead gorgeous froolden caraaze fro inside her and burning her cheeks His hard-boned, thoroughly raunchy h her defences every time she looked at hiirl

‘But the bottoel intoned with grim emphasis ‘I spend at least fifty per cent of the year abroad I want her to meet my relatives and learn what it means to be a Valtinos…’

He could have said nothing more calculated to cool Merry’s fevered response to hie he was giving her As soon as Elyssa was old enough, Angel would be spiriting her out to Greece, taking her away fro Merry behind, shorn of control of what happened in her child’s life It was a sobering prospect

‘Did yourily

‘For once in el declared

‘But where the heck did all this suddenly come fro to do with us last winter!’

‘It took time for me to coht the most iht I could turn el breathed in a roughened undertone as though the words were being extracted forcibly fro about her…or you’

‘Me?’ Merry gasped in sharp disbelief ‘Why would you have been thinking about me?’

Angel lifted and dropped a broad shoulder in questioning doubt ‘So, I’ your child is an unexpectedly powerful discovery—’

‘Angel,’ Merry cut in without hesitation, ‘let’s conant sent you into retreat so fast you left a smoke trail in your wake!’

‘And all I learned was that there was no place to run froht ave way to it and asked to see her You said no repeatedly but here we are now, supposedly acting like adults I’ not to threaten you but I’ve coe as the best option for all three of us’

‘You threatenedat him furiously

‘You need to know that I’o away if you wait for long enough I’el intoned harshly

‘Well, that’s going to be rather ahen it’s not what I want and I will fight you every step of the way!’ Merry flung back at hiot out You can’t force me back’