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‘I can understand you not wanting people to know that she had affairs,’ Jemimawith that because it suited her to do so’

‘She i’s fans wanted to read They didn’t want to hear about the o who seduced me when I enty-two and too rich and naïve to snant when she first slept with me’

‘And you didn’t even suspect?’

‘I was infatuated with her It was probably a little like the way you reacted to your unknohen she first turned up I only sahat I wanted to see in Gigi and I was flattered by her interest’

‘But the e only lasted because of Melita?’

Luciano could not hide his sadness ‘The e died within irl and she loved hter but she wouldn’t have given up custody of her because she said that would dae her reputation as a mother’

‘And did you say that you would never love a woain after her?’

‘Yes,’ Luciano adi was a horrendous experience and I couldn’t forgivesuch a fool I sincerely believed that it would only be safe to love a child, which is why I planned the surrogacy arrangement’

‘You do think in soently

His nostrils flared as he thrust open a side door into the castle ‘It seei did a lot of daain’

‘It was still a little over the top,’ Jemima criticised ‘You may have decided to live without love but most children want two parents’

Luciano shot her an iht, I’h the way I should have done But look how it turned out,’ he said with a sudden grin ‘I got you Have I still got you?’