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She fought against the temptation to put off this aard conversation for another day When she was feeling a little stronger After she had absorbed all the ramifications of her situation for herself and rustled up some kind of plan At which point she would be able to present him with a fait accompli, all-corners-covered type of situation

‘There’s so to put a completely different spin on eerhave’

Sergio stilled Nor situations, he discovered that his breathing had slowed down and his brain was not operating to its usual heightened state of efficiency

So What? She still fancied the hell out of hi her hands, he could sense thebetween them like a wave of electricity, undiminished

Was she about to announce that she had done so all sorts of things about her, thanks to her parents and her sister? She had see all the young men, ere obviously mutual friends of the bride and her cousins

Jealousy rammed into him with such force that he drew his breath in sharply Graphic iuy behind his back competed in his head to make him feel physically sick

Jealousy? Since when had he ever been jealous when it came to any woman?

‘I’-winded non-explanation,’ he said tightly, reining in unfa to say, then why don’t you stop going round the houses and just say it?’

‘I’nant’

It was the last thing he had expected to hear and so it took hiest the revelation

Then he laughed mirthlessly

‘You have got to be kidding’

‘Do I look like sonant I only found out yesterday I did the test In fact I did two tests There’s noyour baby’

He vaulted upright, stared at her and raked his fingers through his hair ‘You can’t be’

He stood in front of her, feet apart, challenging her to defy that simple statement of truth

But in his heart he recognised the ring of sincerity and fought against it