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“Your apology is nothing to ive you It is Alexis you should apologize to”

“Please, then, let me see her Let me talk to her”

“No”

Raoul felt his heart drop into his boots “No? She won’t see me?”

“No, she’s not here—yet If you are serious about hter you may wait here until she returns but you ”

“Anything, what is it?”

“That if she asks you to leave that you will go Just go, and never bother her again”

The thought of never seeing Alexis again, never watching the way her face lit up when she was happy or never again seeing that fierce look of concentration in her eyes when she orking on her designs struck fear into Raoul It was entirely possible that she would tell hiet lost Hadn’t he, essentially, done ashis baby, and never look back? To be satisfied with soement brokered by a pair of lawyers in separate parts of the country? If her state of ht tell him to do exactly that

It was a risk he had to take

“If that is what Alexis wants, then that is what I’ll do”

Lorenzo nodded “Yourattan chairs on the porch “I will not have you here in our home, until I know she welcomes you also”