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“I’oing to be all right?” Madeleine’s voice buzzed in Alexandra’s ears “I slapped hiistered
“You what?”
“I slapped hi”
Alexandra almost smiled “He deserved it”
“Yes, he did”
“How did you knoho he was?”
“I told him you were dead, I mean Xandra Fortune Anyway, he asked if it was because of the baby and I just knew”
“You told him Xandra was dead?”
“Yes, she did, but it’s not true is it? You’re alive and I’d like to shake you both until your teeth rattle” Dimitri’s fury filled voice sent Alexandra’s nerves into overdrive
Madeleine dropped Alexandra’s wrist in shock “Go away!” she shouted at Dimitri
He towered over the anger and a brief moment of vulnerability that disappeared before Alexandra could be certain of its existence “I’ anywhere In fact, I think it is you and your husband who need to go so Xandra and I may speak in private of affairs that do not concern you”
Madeleine opened her mouth to speak, but Alexandra forestalled her She pivoted her body so she faced Dimitri fully and fixed him with a bored stare “My na to discuss”
Since leaving her Xandra Fortune persona behind, she’d run into fornized her She’d had her hair cut short and dyed back to the rather reen contact lenses and her body at five nant in no way reseure
There was no reason she couldn’t bluff this confrontation with Diood reason why she wanted to She’d thought and thought about why he would tell his wife about her and the baby and the only logical solution she’d been able to coer wanted his ex-lover, he did want their child
Soo blue eyes “Do not play games with me”
“I aames If you do not believe me about who I am, I can show you identification I’ve been Alexandra Dupree my whole life I should know” She deliberately infused her voice with a New Orleans accent, one she hadn’t spoken with since being sent to convent boarding school in France at the age of eight
“Ten o I believed you to be dead”
“I can confirm without question that Xandra Fortune is indeed dead, but I am not and I am Alexandra Dupree”
He didn’t even look disconcerted “You may be Alexandra Dupree, but you are also Xandra Fortune and how you believe you could deny such truth to me, the man who knows you more intimately than any other, I cannot understand” His usual flawless English was heavily accented with Greek intonation
“I assure you, you do not know me intimately at all” And that was the truth If he had truly known her, he could never have suspected the baby had been fathered by someone else
Terrible rage reflected in Diainst his chest, his arht and inflexible as steel bands
Madeleine shrieked, “Put her down!”
Hunter strode forward to grab Dimitri’s shoulder
Dilared at hiression “Take your hand off me”
“I won’t allow you to take ainst her will”
The entire situation was unreal Di so uncool as to attenant woination, much less believable reality
Direement “Tell him you want to come with me”
She glared back at him “I don’t”
Di, but in his fury, Di hold as if it were nothing oing to hurt her She’sto talk”
After that, neither Dimitri nor Hunter spoke for what seemed like several minutes, but was in all probability only seconds Then so passed between the two men and much to Madeleine’s dismay and Alexandra’s irritation Hunter nodded
“You can talk to her, but you’ll have to do it here”