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“But you did not wish to marry well?”
“I wanted to marry a man I loved, not a bank account”
“Then it should please you to marry ive you both”
“They were true then,” so much so that parts of her heart were still cracked and bleeding after the abrupt way they’d broken up, “but I don’t love you anymore”
“I refuse to believe a wo character could fall out of love at the first sign of adversity”
She was beginning to have a horrible suspicion he was right, but she wasn’t about to feed his s me from your life with the force of a rocket launcher so you could n of adversity”
“Yet I did not marry her”
“Because your brother beat you to the punch”
He sighed “You are sure I would have married her otherwise?”
Why was he asking her that? Of course she was sure He’din Paris “Yes”
“If I told you I had already decided not to go through with the e, you would not believe me, hmm?”
Was he saying that? No This was just another one of his subtlethe claiht I wouldn’t buy it”
“And yet I had hired a detective agency to find you within days of you leaving Paris”
“I waited for you to change your mind for a whole week, Dimitri You didn’t even call I can believe you started to consider the consequences if I’d told the truth about the baby, but I don’t think you were prepared to call off your wedding because of it I didn’t matter to you then, and I don’t matter to you now It’s all about the baby and I’et that”
His hand gripped his wine glass very tightly The saht he’d come to Madeleine and Hunter’s party
“How did you cut yourself? I never asked” Her ht
He carefully put his wine glass down, staring at it as if it held the answer to an iasped
His eyes held a tor
“When Madeleine told lass in my hand”
CHAPTER SIX
DIMITRI’S state in the air between theht
“You were that upset at the prospect of losing your child?” She had not considered Dimitri’s emotional involve considering she’d seen him as an emotionless monster for the past three months
His jaw tautened “If it pleases you to believe so, yes”
“I’m sorry”
He inclined his head “With your background, you should understand the i raised in his home country of Greece and as a Petronides”
That was more like it Dimitri wanted his son because family pride demanded he be raised Petronides “I understand the i my baby for his own sake, not the sake of family pride Whether he’s raised a Dupree or Petronides, he will still be worthy of my love Can you say the same?”
Dimitri’s features took on the cast of the Iceman “Apparently you do not believe me capable of any level of e?”
She’d hurt him, wounded his sense of self and for some reason, she simply couldn’t bear that “I didn’t mean—”
“Leave it Do you want dessert?”