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She hite ‘Are you suggesting that I have a termination?’

‘No, of course I’m not’ He stared at her in disbelief ‘What kind of nant within with me’

She blinked ‘Don’t you boss me about, Theo Petrakis’

‘In my culture, a man looks after his woman’

‘I’m not your woman’

‘You’re expecting my child That ht now he had a feeling she was too angry to hear that

‘Theo, you don’t even want children!’

Actually, he did Though the potential for catastrophe turned his stomach into knots ‘I don’t have a choice in the matter’

She lifted her chin ‘Yes, you do You can walk away’

‘No, I can’t And I don’t want to either I’ to walk away from you, Maddie’ He reached across and took her hand ‘You’re having le parent You’re going to marry me’

‘No way’ She shook her hand free

What? But…he’d thought that hat she wanted Marriage and babies ‘Why not?’

‘We’ve only known each other a feeeks’

Now he knehat the problem was

And he knew the answer, too He recaptured her hand ‘I know you got , but this is different I’m not Harry’

‘But it’ll still go wrong You said you don’t want e and babies’ She lifted her chin ‘You’ll resentyou’

‘You’re not trapping me and I won’t resent you, Maddie Far from it I want to look after you’

She rolled her eyes ‘I’irl I can look after myself’