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‘I’ve matured’ Luciano tossed the book back down on the table and looked at Je star and wonderful woman described in this book I married her because she told me I was the father of the child she carried She was repeatedly unfaithful tome for another man’

‘Oh, no’ Jemima mumbled, pained by the look in his eyes

‘That man, Alessio di Cai’s life—well, as much as she could love anyone, she loved hiedly ‘He was a married man with a wife and only when his wife died were the two of theo public about their relationship Their affair had, however, apparently continued throughout our e I told her that she elcohter, Melita, with her’

‘How can you trust her? She could go to the press with all this!’ Sancia screeched accusingly

‘Jeet out, so what?’ Luciano shrugged a broad shoulder with fluid fatalisi told hter but Alessio’s,’ he revealed heavily ‘I had stayed in a bad hter’s sake and suddenly she wasn’t i’s departure with Melita that day’

‘It was a cruel lie,’ Sancia swore, desperate to be heard again ‘I never believed that!’

‘Testing was carried out after the crash,’ Luciano cut in flatly, his lean, rih she was and had she survived I would have kept her with me had I had the choice As it was, both mother and child died instantly when the helicopter Alessio had sent to pick theht to Monaco’

Je Only Sancia’s sullen, resentful presence prevented her fro for hi and she was deeply shaken by the true version of what his i could have been anything less than perfect In reality, though, Gigi had been a horribly disloyal and dishonest partner and Jeer surprised that Luciano had required DNA testing before he had been prepared to accept Nicky as his son

‘Let’s go’ Luciano breathed, curving a protective arm to Jemima’s spine

‘I could sell Gigi’s true story for a fortune,’ Sancia remarked quietly

‘Go ahead I no longer care,’ Luciano responded al nast the very people whom you still want to eer be settling your bills My pilot’s waiting for you at the helipad I’er welcome here’

And with that final withering speech they were both back out in the fresh air and sunshine again Shell-shocked, Je in the strength of his tall, powerful body and the gloriously fai had been a dreadful liar and then Julie had lied to him and cheated him and then Jeive her for having lied to him after what he had had to endure in his first, unhappy e?

‘You know I thought you’d got cold feet about the wedding,’ she told him dizzily ‘I believed you were back early to dump me—’

‘No, I was too scared I was losing you I didn’t knohat Sancia had done but I always suspected she could be poisonous’

‘But how could you even find out that I was seeing her yesterday? The bodyguards?’

‘No, Agnese She’s like a bloodhound She phoned me to tell me that Sancia had invited you and informed me that that was suspicious because Sancia is not friendly towards other women’

‘Why were you paying Sancia’s bills?’

‘At first I felt sorry for her because she was always overshadowed by Gigi Of course, she knew all her sister’s dark secrets because she worked as Gigi’s assistant on the Palermo estate we lived on in those days’ He hesitated ‘With the tii had been in the act of leaving me when she died and I told myself that it was my private business But, more honestly, I chose to save face rather than tell the truth The paparazzi had dogged us obsessively throughout our e because, of course, there were always ruht out’