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The coldness of displeasure had hardened the Greek tycoon’s bold bronzed features His dark, deep-set eyes were like black ice ‘I asked you once before not to make this a battle, for whatever it takes I in’

As no doubt intended, the threat Maribel perceived in that assurance slid like an ice cube down her rigid spine and settled in her belly, sparking nausea Fear of losing her son sliced through her, and with it caer that he should dare to subject her to that level of anxiety ‘And you wonder why I wouldn’t even consider letting you take Elias to Greece? Forget the DNA-testing and any change to his birth certificate!’ she told him vehemently ‘You have just ensured that I will obstruct any claim you try to make on Elias’

A white-hot blaze of wrath engulfed Leonidas He strode forward, the chill in his gaze a for ‘I won’t let you keep me apart from my son It is madness for you to oppose me in this way I expected much more from you’

Stubborn as a round and surveyed hi ed’

‘But you still want likia mou,’ Leonidas countered silkily ‘I should have appreciated that your sexual co attached How ambitious are you?’

His sheer insolence ?’

‘Why not put your cards on the table? Were you hoping that I ht eventually ask you to marry me?’

A brittle laugh of disagreeht throat ‘No! I don’t live in fantasy land But Iwould now persuade me that I can trust you with my son’

Leonidas dealt her a sizzling look of derision

‘That was a fact, not a suggestion,’ Maribel told hiht now I’m very conscious that you could use your influence and financial power to put pressure on me, but I won’t be intimidated I’ll still let you see Elias, but that’s all I don’t trust you I won’t give you the chance to take hiht for five minutes around you, or your employees!’

Leonidas was inflaes He was a responsible adult and Elias was his son Her attitude incensed him

A knock on the door interrupted the dialogue It was Diane, the nanny, with Elias Sleepy and fretful after waking up in a different room, the little boy held out his arms to histhe security of the familiar pet