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‘I’m afraid not My security tea him up to London for the day I’ll send the nanny with them’ Luciano read her consternation with ease ‘Naturally I want to spend time with my son’
‘Before you dowhat?’ Jemima pressed helplessly
‘Before I take him home to Sicily with me,’ Luciano fielded ‘You kno this must end, Jemima Why make it more difficult for all of us?’
Jemima subsided like a pricked balloon Julie had accepted payree to run screaet her? More iain Nicky? Notified of the circumstances of Nicky’s birth, the social services would probably step in to take charge of Nicky and decide his future and there was no guarantee that Luciano would get him either In fact there was every chance that Nicky would be placed in an adoptive hoain Seeking outside help would be the wrong thing to do, she decided in despair The very fact she had lied and faked being Julie to hold on to her nepheould be held against her by the authoritiesand by Luciano if he ever found out the truth
CHAPTER THREE
‘SO COULD I have a lift with you up to London?’ Jemima asked the nanny cheerfully ‘I assure you that a lift is all I want, but et to know Nicky and I can run through his routine with you as well’
‘Er I’ Nonplussed, the nanny, who had introduced herself as Lisa, hovered on the doorstep and looked at the tall, broadly built bodyguard standing behind her for direction
The bodyguard dug out a cell phone and punched in a nu could be done because no plan could deviate in the smallest ithout Luciano Vitale’s per that she was being clever when she had coht before Yet she truly wasn’t trying to interfere with Luciano’s day with Nicky She si
‘I just thought I could take the opportunity to do souard’s conversation in staccato Italian continued at length
‘Mr Vitale etic smile ‘I don’t want to screw up h, to know a little more about your son’
‘Miss Maurice?’ The bodyguard handed the phone to the nanny
Jehten her shoulders and pale as she evidently received her instructions while answering yes and no several times She then extended the phone to Jemima