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‘Emily?'

To her shock Marco had placed his hand flat against her belly Fearfully she turned to look at hiuessed?

‘You're looking so much better than you did when you first arrived here' she heard hiood'

Shakily Euessed; it was just her own anxiety that washer think that he must have done

‘I don't think anyone wouldn't enjoy it I know I haven't seen much of the island'

Today, we're going to see as much of it as we can' Marco told her as he started the car and my royal duties will just have to wait'

Whatever else the future held for Marco's child, she was glad that it wouldn't be the dark shadow of duty that fell across Marco's life Erow up not knowing his father, but he would be free of the burden Marco carried, and she was passionately grateful for that Though, at the same time, almost overwhelmed by the intensity of her love for Marco, she reflected as he turned the car off the h, rocky coastline where cliffs plunged down into the sea

‘This was one of my favourite places when I was a boy' Marco confided as he stopped the car

Emily could understand why There was an elemental wildness about it; in some ways, the landscape matched the man

‘Coet out of the car'

Eave her an uncoo But she could see that Marco was determined and she didn't want to have to explain to him how she felt