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He would probably be furious at that, she thought He would see it as a gesture of defiance—which it hadn’t been

His reaction to the phone call, however, was taking second place to the dile inside her All the doubts she had shoved away had crept out of their hiding places and reaking long-overdue havoc

The nancy he would insist she h to know that he was a ht reasons Or at least the right reasons for hie with her It ht it A baby would necessitate e That, to him, would make sense, because no child of his would be born out of wedlock

Megan could envisage the Victorian speech even as she sat with the phone in her hand, staring at it

Did she want to be reed to e life without him, because at the back of her mind there had been a thread of hope that she would eventually be able to win hi that he hadreasons? Connected by a child and in a position where walking away ht become an impossibility?

For the first tian took the next day off work

With the silence of an empty house around her, she had time to really sit down and take stock Alessandro disliked emotional roller-coaster rides She had been too o, and she had tried very hard not to make any demands of him since she had moved in with him She had never questioned his ood all that had done when he was about to be flung onto the craziest roller-coaster ride of his life She wondered whether he would resent her for having catapulted him into a situation he would never in aabout that made her feel even sicker than she already felt

The htfall, and she drooped around the house, ignoring all phone calls andsure to switch off her cellphone—because Alessandro would phone again, and she just needed ti his voice

She hadn’t expected to see him Not when he should have been thousands ofroo the start of a headache, when she felt rather than heard his sudden presence in the room

He was standing in the doorway and she wondered how long he had been there, looking at her with the strangest expression on his face The least he could have done was announce his presence bysome noise!

Megan scraotten as she absorbed the deeply sexy , like a lost little planet trying to fight a gravitational pull that was too powerful for her

‘Wha…what are you doing back here?’