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She took a deep breath and then blew it out in an atteain her co hestwarily inside the masculine space The room was e the door open, footsteps sounded in the corridor and she turned, knowing it wasn’t Max Relief and annoyance rushed through her She wanted to get this over and done with Only then could she move on and leave this part of her life behind
‘He’s not there,’ Max’s PA informed her as she slipped past her and put soone for his usual coffee fix Although he wasn’t in a good mood’
‘He wasn’t?’ Lisa’s confidence began to erode like a cliff face pounded by an angry sea
‘No Far from it,’ his PA said as she ordered the files on his desk ‘Very distracted’
‘Thanks’
Before she became further embroiled in conversation, Lisa turned andthat served as the headquarters for Max’s various business ventures It was also the head offices of the latest struggling football club whose fortunes he was intent on turning around The cold December air snatched her breath away as she walked toward the very place she and Max had drunk far toothat had beenbusiness
That night should have been about her as the club’s physio and hiabout each other, theirout on her Worse than that, it had soon become about the passion that still sparked between them, the consequences of which now linked thee certificate ever could
She stopped walking She couldn’t do this How could she tell theto be a father? Maybe she should wait until after Christossip reaching him before she did pushed her back on course and she walked on, her boots sounding hard and loud on the pave out a rhyth
What was the worst he could do? Tell her he didn’t want anything to do with his child? That response was exactly what she expected and it certainly couldn’t be worse than his admission that he didn’t love her The pain couldn’t be any harder to bear than that of losing the man she’d fallen in love with
Twoher utmost to keep out of his way at work, at least until she’d found a new position, she’d allowed her heart to rule her head and had given into Max’s lethal char she’d done and noith their baby growing inside her, she couldn’t afford toherself that he cared Her head had to be well and truly in charge, keeping her heart locked away This was not a time for senti would never be possible with Maximiliano Martinez She knew that now
She pushed open the door of the bar Max always favoured, the blast of war up the nausea as she walked in The place was decked out for Christ it was practically deserted She glanced into the di with his back to her, staring ahead of hi else
His PA was right He wasn’t in a good mood
Her heart flipped over and tugged at the emotions she was desperate to keep under control So s They were pouring fro frory or nervous or even if she was doing the right thing as she stood looking at the man she knew she couldn’t remain married to, the man whose child she now carried
The tension in Max’s broad shoulders was all too obvious as he sat, elbows on the table and hands clasped tightly and pressed against his chin She walked slowly forward, co round to his side, but still he didn’t see her, didn’t hear her He was lost in thought
Why was he so unreachable? She’d known he kept his eht she could change that—change hih for the she’d had, it was just another gaaer, not now there was a baby on the way