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His change should co surprise He had never been in it for —because whether he nanimously chose to take responsibility or not the fact was that circued horrendously for him

He wasn’t ai to be callous For him it was truly an explosion in his life—and a mess It just wouldn’t occur to hiht want to hear

‘I don’t want to get into a huge argu to marry you And quite honestly I have no idea why you would want tocurve”, with your fatherfor hiswoman?’

‘Circumstances are somewhat different in our case, wouldn’t you say? For a start, you aren’t decades my junior, and you didn’t actively seek me out so that you could extract money from me’

‘That’s not what you thought e first met! And you came here because you needed to satisfy yourself that you hadn’tunnecessary chances’

‘It’s not going to further this situation if we keep delving into the past That’s over and done with’

‘It still doesn’t change the fact that I won’t io What would be the point of sacrificing our lives just because we happened to make a mistake? People make mistakes all the ti for it for the rest of their lives’

Sergio took every single word that left her mouth as a personal affront

Marriage had not crossed his radar in any way, shape or for now to any of the women he had dated in the past they would have bitten his arm off in their enthusiasm to accept

Not only had she turned hiy or remorse, and she had told him in no uncertain words that he was not up to scratch, not what she was looking for

‘So tellout?’ His voice was icy ‘You reh for one person, far less two? With te and appliances that don’t work unless they feel like it? Do you envisage ro to swaddle my baby in layers of clothes or risk frostbite? Or will you take up the other option of running back ho under their roof for the foreseeable future? Because—and let’s be brutally honest here—your job won’t pay the way’

‘I haven’t thought that far ahead,’ Susie said faintly ‘Of course I know that it’s not going to be feasible to stay where I am’