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She was cool, he had to give her that ‘You didn’t ask me how I knew you weren’t his mother?’

She shrugged her shoulders and still betrayed none of the guilt he had expected her to when confronted ‘I suppose I assu David, maybe?’

‘David?’

‘The vice-chancellor’

‘You call the vice-chancellor David?’ His voice was heavy with suspicionp????e

‘He went to school with irl so, yes, I do call him David’

‘And he knows Sam isn’t your son?’

Scarlet shook her head in total bewilderment ‘It’s not like it’s a secret Everyone knows, I suppose’

He looked at her, his dark brows drawn into a straight line

‘Why? What did you think?’

His eyes were hidden beneath the lustrous sweep of his lashes as he looked across at her, but his attitude suggested he ary ‘Then who is Sam’s birth mother?’

‘My sister Abby was Sam’s mother’

CHAPTER EIGHT

COMPREHENSION struck Roman with the force of a tidal wave Of the scenarios he had iined plenty—this one had never occurred to him

The people he eround check were both efficient and discreet He could have had the information she had just provided in literally a matter of hours, maybe less Instead he had taken a far more tortuous route, and had his DNA compared with the hair sample he had taken from the child

At the time he had told hi, the less chance there was of the story leaking out He’d wanted to know for certain he didn’t have a son without having to involve a whole string of people Noas forced to consider the possibility that the truth had only been part of what he had wanted—he had wanted someone to blame

Not just someone

The stranger as bringing up his child without his knowledge had to be guilty of so—! He had wanted to confront Scarlet, to make this personal—it was personal!

His stillness was scary, she thought It was actually a relief when his shoulders lifted and a soundless sigh shuddered through his powerful frame

‘Was…?’

Scarlet looked away and with a gesture that was intensely weary rubbed the bridge of her nose; the glasses were gone but the habit remained She blinked hard to clear her blurry vision as tears filled her eyes