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It was a question he had asked himself repeatedly two years earlier when she had accepted his father’s pay-off to turn her back on their relationship and walk away How had he reedy streak in her make-up? At the time he would have described her as the least ly concealed her avaricious side froether she had gone to great lengths to prove that his wealth meant little to her And if he was honest, he had been ie he had become bored omen who valued him for what he orth rather than for the man he was

Yet the woreediest of all That was a lowering truth he hated to recall for it exposed his poor judgement when he was at the mercy of his libido A re without much surprise that one look at Chrissie’s beautiful face and slender but shapely proportions could still arouse him

Chrissie was finally wondering how on earth she could broach the subject of Jaul being a father and increasingly it was sinking in for her that it would co into the clutch bag Lizzie had pressed on her and in a sudden movement she bent her pale head and snapped it open to withdraw the birth certificates Those documents were self-explanatory and there was really no need at all for her to start stu into an aard announcement

Chrissie extended the certificates ‘I’ why I ca off your clothes again, she completed inwardly while her face burned with ht you should see these first’

Another frown drawing together his fine ebony brows, Jaul grasped the documents with an unhidden air of incorateful for that, well aware of Chrissie’s ability to throw a three-act drama over what he viewed as trivia Time had shot the rasped the fact that for soiven him a pair of birth certificates

‘What are these?’ Jaul scanned the name of the mother and went cold ‘You have children?’

‘And so do you,’ Chrissie advised thinly ‘You got nant, Jaul’

Jaul stilled and stopped breathing Pregnant? The word screamed at him It was not possible in his mind to credit it at that firstdates,that whether he liked it or not it was a possibility A possibility he didn’t want to think about though He had children, a boy and a girl The concept was so shattering that he literally could not think for several tense seconds The wo to divorce was the mother of his children Inwardly he reeled fro truth would change everything Everything!

But as he only learning about so as incredibly important as the news that he was a father over a year after the event of their birth? Jaul was not accusto the kind of shock that rocked his world on its axis Mo them to stare at Chrissiebeautiful, deceptive Chrissie, who had hit hioal of mammoth proportions

‘If this is trueand I assureatest difficulty he had ever had in controlling both his te told about the existence of hter now?’

Of all the reactions he ed while the taxi ferried her across London, that particular one had not featured It was a Eureka moment for Chrissie and she didn’t need to leap out of a bath to be galvanised into instantaneous rage and juot to say to me?’ she shouted at him full force

Innuenerations of royal ice stiffened Jaul’s spine, for no male had been more minutely trained from childhood than he had been to deal with a sudden crisis without any show of unseeed vocal excla me to say?’ he enquired