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Lisa sed down the bitterness of the truth of what he’d said Max was right They needed to find co up their child, but the little girl who’d watched her own father leave, only to see her mother replace him with a new one, then others as the years went by, didn’t want to e and parenthood She wanted to be a happy, loving parent with Max, create the solid foundations for the kind of life she’d never had The other option was to raise her child alone—completely—unlike her mother who even now couldn’t face life alone, constantly searching for the next man to live with for a year or so

As far as she was concerned, Max would either be a full-time father or a permanently absent one For her there were no halfway ht up like that She knew only too hat it was like to be that child, to bla, to wonder what you’d done, never thinking it had been so totally unconnected with her She also knehat it was like to have a stepfather who bullied her into submission Not that he’d ever laid a hand on her, but there was more than one way to bully someone

‘Can you do that, Max?’ she challenged hi ‘Can you be in your child’s life all the ti by your reaction to the news, fatherhood is not so you want?’

He caering in the air ‘My reaction, as you so nicely put it, was due not only to being told you were pregnant, but to the headlines about ht that you had known about that and hadn’t told me’

‘But you still wouldn’t have been overjoyed’ Lisa ignored the reference to thatat cross purposes, determined to keep the focus on as is over the last few days he’d sorted things with Raul and noas tis with her Deep inside her, she hankered after the man who’d melted her with just one kiss, the man who’d loved her physically with a passion so intense it still burned in her memory She wanted that man now, but each time the baby was mentioned the chances of that seemed to slip further and further away

‘No, I would not’ The truth lashed at her like icy rain and she steeled herself against it, but the onslaught continued ‘Our e broke up because we are too different You wanted love fro that ever existed between us was passion It’s what brought us together and ultimately what pushed us apart’

For him that was true, but she couldn’t say that now If she did she’d be ads of love that she knew he could never return It was that realisation as she’d watched hiether that had made her see that It had only ever been about passion—or was it merely lust? Whatever it was, love had never entered into it for hies to master and command

In total contrast to everything she wanted to feel, her body heated with so distinctly like lust as he moved very close to her, his dark eyes full of unveiled desire Her heart al as he reached out and lifted her chin slightly with his thuer ‘I also think that passion still exists, that, however er in your sexy eyes, you want me as much as I want you’

Why was he doing this? Why was he torturing her so?

‘That’s absurd’ It should have been a hot denial, but the husky undertone to her voice said far too ht touch of his thuer on her chin was pure torment but she couldn’t step back, couldn’t move away She wanted him, wanted his touch that could lead to a kiss so powerful that it would render her unable to fight him at all

‘Is it?’ His voice was far too sexy but she refused to give into the urge to close her eyes, to surrender to his touch, his will

‘Of course it is’ She’d wanted to snap the words out, to make it very clear how cross she was, how she hated what he was doing to her, the power he had over her, but they caed whisper

‘I disagree,’ he said softly Too softly ‘Passion is what brought us back together two ether’

He had that look in his eyes, that sexy come-to-bed look that she’d never been able to resist but this time she would This time, she wouldn’t fall for it or hi into his bed