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Erin pulled the jacket closer around her shoulders—grateful for the war that the expensive cloth were not permeated with Dimitri’s distinctive scent She was trapped—in every which way She didn’t want to take him to the home she shared with Leo and her sister, Tara Not because she was asha No, the truth wasLeo Afraid hehi he was perfectly entitled to Becausesimilar if the situation were reversed? If she’d discovered that someone had kept her flesh and blood hidden frouilty secret for all these years?
A feeling of despair washed over her as she conte that further lies and evasion were pointless And besides, hadn’t this been a long ti? How many times over the years had she picked up the telephone to tell hie? Hadn’t her heart so her boy access to his father? Until she had forced herself to re lifestyle
She rehtclubs and bars and casinos, ga but loose change, in a vodka-or whisky-induced haze She reh his bed—the ones with the tiny dresses and tottering heels who exuded a dangerous kind of gla with the occasional flash of their knickers She certainly didn’t want her son growing up to think those kind of women were the norm Who was to say that the seedy world Diolden-haired boy and introduce him to some unspeakable future?
She re after she’d slept with him—his shocked face when he’d opened his eyes and seen as lying beside him With her brown hair and narrow build she must have seemed like a different species from the bloomen he usually bedded No wonder he hadn’t been able to wait to get away from her
‘We’d better go to your place, I suppose,’ she said, her voice filled with resignation
His mouth hardened as he rapped on theand spoke to the driver in his native tongue, and the car took a left, travelling towards the dockland area of the city
Erin waited for his interrogation to begin, but when Dian as clearly a business conversation in his native Russian, she was momentarily perplexed Until she reendary And he was ly successful Right now, he would have realised that by leaving her to steould only increase her feelings of insecurity and put hier position His clevera series of questions, but he would ask them only in his time, and on his terms
And really, there was only one question which she was going to have difficulty answering
The car took the the river and Erin was filled with a horrible feeling of déjà vu as they walked into the nificent marbled foyer, with its forest of tall, potted palms—behind which sat one of the burly porters ere all ju-jitsu trained Sometietting ready to go abroad, and it was a place she had always liked—a coldly nificent apartment which orlds away from her own rented home She’d liked the river view and the fact that you could push a button and the blinds would float down, or another button would sendout fro about it until the night when she’d overstepped thethe one ti vulnerable
And he’d responded by taking her virginity on his vast dining-roo off her panties like athat almost feral moan as he drove deep inside her
She could see the porter looking her up and down as she stepped out of the revolving door in her badly fitting white dress, with Di around her shoulders Briefly, she felt like some sort of crazy wo elevator at great speed
‘Hurry up,’ he said as he pressed the button for the penthouse elevator ‘I don’t wantseen with a wo dress’
‘I didn’t think it was possible for your reputation to sink any lower!’