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‘You’ve changed Your breasts have becoer’

‘It’s the pregnancy,’ she said weakly

Dangerous conversation It played to her weakness and she knew she should resist, should say so funny or sarcastic, but all she could think was, God, you’re beautiful, and I want toelse in the whole world

Looking at her, Sergio knew that he could have her Right now, right here Hell, they probably wouldn’t even be able toAnd ould follow in the aftermath of that?

Marriageto blow their fragile truce by sta her into bed like someone who had zero control? He had built his life on control, and he kneas the most powerful ally anyone could have

But, God, his whole body was aching He wanted to reach out and slip his hand under the juht of her breasts, wanted to push that juer and darker now that she was pregnant

And he wanted to taste her down there, get his fill of her, and then come inside her without the nuisance of protection

‘I won’t stay for anything,’ he said abruptly ‘I should go Is there anything else you need?’

Her body cooled and she stiffened in receipt of a rebuttal he wasn’t even bothering to dress up

‘Nothing And you’re right Silly of ht You should head off’

CHAPTER NINE

SUSIE’S FIRST THOUGHT when she felt a cranore it Firstly, she didn’t want to overreact and be labelled a hysterical hypochondriac by the hospital into which she had been booked Secondly, Sergio had just left and she didn’t want to summon him back on ould probably be a fool’s errand

Things had been ticking along between the two of them for the past four months

The bigger she’d grown, theassortment of shapeless clothes He had rebuffed her that one ti into the trap of thinking that heattractive h, stretchy Lycra content, would have made her feel vulnerable She didn’t want to feel vulnerable Not on top of everything else she was having to deal with—nas towards hihtest over time