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‘You know, through all the tiether, you’ve never spoken about your childhood,’ she said ‘Apart fro used public transport because your father owned an island’

‘And why do you think that is?’ he questioned ‘If so, there’s usually a reason why’

‘You’ve never toldabout your fa I don’t even know if you’ve got any brothers or sisters—’

‘I don’t’

‘And you’ve never mentioned your parents’

Unsly, he looked into her eyes ‘Maybe that’s because I don’t want to’

‘Alek’ She leant forward ‘You need to tell me’

‘Why?’ he snapped

‘Because this baby is going to share your parents’ genes Your father—’

‘Is dead,’ he said flatly ‘And believe me, you’d better hope that our baby doesn’t share enes’

A shiver ran down her spine ‘And what about your mother?’

For a moment there was silence ‘What about her?’

Ellie was unprepared for the savage note in his voice or the bunching of his powerful shoulders Everything about his reaction told her she was entering dangerous territory—but she knew she couldn’t let up Not this tiht win his te up to a life of half-truths Bringing up a baby in a world of ignorance, where nothing hat it really seee was power And wasn’t the balance of power in this relationship already hopelessly unequal?