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Lisa threw aside the sheet and got out of bed, her ry and hurt she was She pressed her fingers to her forehead for a ly naked He wasn’t the only one as suffering froht
‘We agreed to keep things professional’ He looked at her, wishing things had been different, wishing that his past didn’t haunt hi any kind of ean to dress, to hide her sexy body, his control slipped back into place ‘We agreed we could work together Just as we did before ere married’
‘We are still married’ Her frosty look couldn’t hide the hurt in her eyes as her fingers fumbled to hastily fasten the buttons on her blouse ‘You ad about it’
Was Lisa right? Was he too weak to admit a mistake? Or was it that he still wanted her?
But you can’t give her what she wants
Her neat brows furrowed together and hurt showed in every pore of her delicately pale face ‘So as last night? A casual fling? A big mistake?’
‘Sí, a mistake One that should not have happened’ He stood firm He wasn’t the man for her Lisa wanted to be loved and to love in return and had never made a secret of that This was his issue He couldn’t accept her love, couldn’t take that from her when he kneithout a doubt, he could never love her Not that he hadn’t tried He’d even married her in an attempt to unshackle himself from the chains that cut off his emotions, that held him firmly in the past But to no avail
She gasped, her eyes widening, and he kneas hurting her He had to do it Had to ht for one another, to save her froreater hurt Despite the sparks of passion that had fired instantly between theht, as if the six months apart had never happened, they weren’t suited Surely she could see that
‘I hate you,’ she snapped at hi but He knew she had once loved him, but he wanted her to hate hiive her what she needed, what she deserved If she could say she hated him, then soon her heart would feel the same
‘Then we are doing the right thing’ Deep inside a sht of her hating him But it had to be that way
‘Daht was a ers, snatched her purse and jacket fro theht and marched to the door ‘I want a divorce’
The door slalowered at the door, as if it were responsible for shutting her out, but he’d done that It was for the best, but it sure as hell didn’t feel like it right now
CHAPTER ONE
LISA MARTINEZ TOOK a deep breath, trying to ease the nausea that had just started to beco She couldn’t put it off any longer She had to tell him
She was pregnant—expecting the baby of a man anted neither her nor any sort of coers of dread slithered down her spine What on earth was she going to do?
All she kneas that she had to tell Maximiliano, the man she’d fallen head over heels in love with from the moment their eyes had firstthem happiness Thevows He was also the ry words I want a divorce at when the passion of their recent one night together had been extinguished by the cold light of day
She knew exactly where Max would be right now Ensconced in his office, chasing the next big deal, the next football club to drag up froreat It was his way of proving he could succeed, could still be so in the world of football despite the car accident that had cut short his career
Lisa fought against the flurry of nerves that added to the nausea she’d been trying to shake off since she’d finally had the courage to see her doctor There was no getting away fro Max To do that would be to go against everything she believed in She had to tell hi consequences and before anyone else they worked with guessed He ht be her boss at the football club where she was a physio but he was still her husband, despite the divorce papers she knew the court had sent him Max had to hear this from her