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‘Why did you coio drove on renant but you didn’t come back here so that you could tell me and we could talk this out’

‘I wanted I don’t know’ She backed away from an answer that would demonstrate just hoerful his effect on her was ‘I shouldn’t have I should have taken soet my head round this and then I should have approached you in aa ’

‘By which you mean anywhere devoid of a bed? Why don’t you admit it, Susie? You came back here because you wanted to sleep with me You wanted me to make love to youto touch you in all those places you like being touched Bit rich to talk about self-sacrifice and chains and shackles when you can’t wait to juree?’

Susie squeezed her thighs tightly together He eood sex

Except she didn’t want a business arrangeood sex didn’t last for ever If she uy she loved, but that didn’t uy of her dreams because those were two completely separate issues The man of her dreams could only ever be the man who returned her love What she would end up ould be a nightmare from which she would never be able to escape

She would be trapped, loving hiy and needy—just the sort of wo He would find excuses to work later and later, and eventually he would end up having an affair with someone like Alexa clever, sophisticated woone She, on the other hand, would be left at ho and the other half trying to regain his attention

‘I should leave’ she breathed defiantly

‘You should be honest with yourself,’ Sergio returned with equal cool speed

There were staring at each other in this difficult situation like co, but he could still feel the intense electricity between thee

‘The passion between us hasn’t waned because you’re carrying my baby It’s a start’

‘Passion fades—what then?’

‘We’re going to be having a child and I won’t be a part-ti to let so thethe joint decisions, while I show up on a weekly basis trying to play catch-up’

‘It wouldn’t be that way,’ she said unco and sweeping her off her feet her mind went blank

‘And how are you going to feel down the line?’

‘I don’t knohat you mean’ She looked at him, confused

‘When I find so with ets to know our child, takes an interest, has input intoprocess’

Susie felt the colour leave her cheeks Of course he would find someone else He wasn’t a man ould be inclined to spend too much time celibate He was rich beyond belief, even more powerful, and it would be a matter of seconds before he became an object of pursuit

She iined what this fictitious pursuer would look like and it played on all the old insecurities she had—all the feelings of inferiority that she had spent a lifeti to put behind her She would be hard as nails and ready to get stuck in when it came to all sorts of decisions that were none of her business She would be a clever, brutally tall blonde, with a razor-sharp bob and a repertoire of hard and fast notions on how to bring up other people’s kids

And she, Susie, wouldn’t be able to do a thing about it She certainly wouldn’t be finding solace in the ar in front of the television with the sound down, counting the minutes until her child was returned to her

Furtherio stepped up to the plate financially—which she kneould, however hard she objected—he would still be a billionaire, able to afford anything and everything