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Chapter Nine

ALEX WAS HORRIFIED at the thought, plus the i into the office at soe baby buazines that told you everything you needed to know about pregnancy andyou didn’t need to know She and Audrey would talk babies ad infinitu baby clothes, not to mention oodles of those hideous stuffed toys And, yes, there would be a bag packed and sitting in the corner, ready for the e into labour

‘That won’t be happening,’ he ground out ‘Audrey can take you in a taxi’

Harriet laughed ‘You should see your face What’s the problem, Alex? You’re not afraid of babies, are you?’

‘I what they’re told’ He’d visited Sarah once or then she’d had newborns and had hardly slept a wink, ith the crying all night It certainly wasn’t so he craved for himself

‘No wonder you’ve stayed a bachelor if that’s what you think’

‘It’s what I think Now, tell me what you think’

‘About what? Babies or bachelors?’

‘No About your surrounds We’re here’ And he pulled over to the side of the road and turned off the engine

They were on the crest of a hill Harriet’s head swivelled round as she took in the land which would one day be an eighteen-hole golf course surrounded by privately owned homes and some holiday apartments There would be a well-appointed club house, of course, as well as a ss could be held Big e

The land, she knew, had once been a banana plantation that had gone bust when the trees had developed sous A would-be entrepreneur had snapped it up for a bargain price, clearing the land before he hih and the stock market had crashed Alex had stepped in, and here they were today

She cli on the grass verge with her hands on her hips whilst asseolf course itself looked nearly finished, but the buildings were still at the foundation stage, the rain obviously having held up that part of the project