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Without a word, Chrissie bent down to scoop up the abandoned toys and toss them into the basket by the wall

‘You have children now?’ Jaul pro her beautiful platinum-blonde hair slide like a veil of polished silk off her shoulder to screen her profile as she bent down His riveted gaze rested on the glea curve of an upturned hip, a slender section of spine and the long, taut stretch of a svelte porcelain-pale thigh

Slender thighs that he had parted, lain between, revelled between, night after night He had never got enough of her His e sexual heat zinging through hiroin His strong white teeth ground together, rage at his lack of control gaining on him

Chrissie thought fast while she snatched up the last brick, grateful he couldn’t see her face It was a relief that he didn’t know about the twins, a huge relief, she conceded, but it felt unreal for Jaul to ask whether or not she had children as though they were coers

‘I’ve been babysittingfor a friend,’ she lied as lightly as she could ‘Nohat can I help you with?’

Jaul picked up on the insolent note of that question immediately That supposed politeness was pure honeyed Chrissie scorn and he knew it A faint line of colour accentuated his exotic cheekbones while his dark eyes flashed as golden as the sun atto tell you that may come as a shock’

Chrissie tilted her head to one side, eyes bright as a turquoise sea and luminous below soft brown lashes ‘I lived with you, Jaul Nothing you do or say could shock me’

Not after the way you abandoned me, but she sed that final assurance, too proud and too scared of losing face to risk throwing that in his teeth But his apparent equanih her restraint like acid It was offensive that he could approach her so casually after what he had done to her and utterly unforgivable that he should dare

‘The sooner you tell me, the sooner you can leave,’ Chrissie quipped, dry- back

Jaul breathed in deep and slow, fighting toache below his belt It had si since he had had sex He was a nor strange about the reality that proximity to Chrissie should awaken old familiar irim dark eyes on her ‘I have only recently learned that our al and that is why I am here’

So great was Chrissie’s incredulity at that news that she blinked and stuainst the bookcase behind her ‘But your father said it was illegal, that it had no standing in law, that—’

‘My father was al advisers insist that the cereal and, consequently, we are now in need of a divorce’

Chrissie was deeply shaken by that announcement and her soft pink ht,’ she acknowledged while she played for time and tried to absorb the immensity of what he had just said ‘So, all this tially married?’

‘Yes,’ Jaul conceded grudgingly

‘Well, fancy that,’ Chrissie coo I was turned away from the door of the Marwani Eh our wedding cere to see me, talk to me or even accept a letter for youin fact I was threatened with the police if I didn’t leave—’

‘What on earth are you talking about? When were you at our eht and tall and betraying not a shade of discomfiture

She stared at hinetism Her tummy flipped and a flock of butterflies broke loose inside her Jaul had an electrifying combination of animal sex appeal, hauteur and co, so very good-looking he had grabbed her attention at first glance even though she had known he was a player and not to be trusted Yet she had resisted hiht her at a vulnerable moment and then, sadly, she too had found those broad shoulders and that lying, seductive tongue irresistible