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She clutched at the first thing she could think of to change the subject ‘What about your brother? Aren’t you intending to meet him this afternoon?’

‘I a my brother…’ he paused and lifted his ar his tanned wrist and, try as she aze away ‘…in one hour Which means, ill have to continue this discussion later’

‘In that case, I’ll go hoestive and incredibly sexy way and she drew in a deep breath

‘You will come with me, Lisa, and afterward, ill call at your apartment to collect all you need to s out’

‘Are you mad?’

‘Quite possibly’ He smiled, the kind of smile that left her in no doubt he was sure he held all the power ‘But I am not about to allow you to walk aith my child’

‘A child you’ve never wanted’

‘That may have been the case once, but not any more’

CHAPTER THREE

MAX’S MIND HAD been a turhts as he and Lisa had made the journey across London to the hotel his brother had suggested for theirof his brother and how finally one to the child he was now responsible for How could he be a father when he was the son of atwo families simultaneously?

He looked at Lisa as she sat down in one of the cosy-looking armchairs in the hotel foyer A wave of unease washed over him as he noticed she was still pale beneath the heavy make-up she nearly alore It was her armour, her wall to hide behind He knew that h not why In fact he knew very little about her past Nothing else had mattered at first because he’d seen the real Lisa, had loved the real Lisa—at least physically

Then he’d broken her heart because his past meant he couldn’t open his heart to hers He couldn’t let himself love her It was an emotion he wasn’t capable of His father’s sudden abandonment had seen to that, not that he’d been around ood Max had never knohere he went for weeks at a tione to his other fa his itimate son behind