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She tried toher all day, but suddenly she noticed a new restlessness in his eyes A certain tension in his powerful body ‘What is it that you want, Dimitri?’

She was trying to soundabout the thready quality of her voice made his eyes narrow

‘I’ve coo’

She looked at his?’

Direen eyes and hesitated, because what he was about to do did not corown up in a world where explanations were never given, where feelings were buried so deeply that you could al they didn’t exist And he had carried on that same sterile tradition into his own adult life Never explain had been his motto People could take hih There were plenty er to please you

But not Erin Erin was different She did what she thought was right—no matter at what cost to herself And she was the mother of his child She deserved his respect—he realised that now And s he was fast discovering about himself

‘I understand nohy you kept Leo fro,’ he said

Her eyes ary ‘You do?’

He nodded ‘Why would you want an innocent child being corrupted by solass, as I did? Whose idea of fun was being the last person left in the casino after he’d eer, asood mother would do and you are a fantastic mother,’ he said slowly ‘And our son is beautiful He’s just beautiful, Erin’

Erin didn’t knohat she’d been expecting, but this hadn’t even featured on her list of possibilities And the crazy thing was that the things he’d saidhe’d coo to tell her he had cleaned up his act and then he could have ht of all those wasted years which they could never get back and suddenly she didn’t want to risk a ret

She blinked away the incipient tears which were pricking at the backs of her eyes ‘Kiss me,’ she whispered