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“You did!” She didn’t think about it, she just balled up her fist and sht on the chest Hard
He grunted and caught her hand in his own “I did not believe it If I had, I would have ended our relationship”
Right That sounded like hiht the baby was someone else’s”
“Yes I did hold this tor belief for a week I have no excuse”
She glared at him “No, you don’t”
But inside she had to acknowledge her trips home could have looked suspicious to a lover as possessive as Dis in her life she refused to tell hi her over completely She had loved hi a part of herself he did not know Only when she returned to living that part of her life, she took the pain of his loss with her The defense had not worked
“My grandfather refused to have necessary by-pass surgery until I proe with Phoebe I was not ready to give you up, but I was not prepared to let him die, either”
She stared at him in disbelief “You cannot be serious You always told randfather was How could he black me?”
“He did not know about you”
This nehat had happened threedisoriented “But still…”
“He wanted an assurance I would do my duty by the Petronides name”
“And instead you got your ht with her”
He grimaced “Yes”
“He’ll be furious if you marry me”
He looked arandfather and he cannot help but be charhter”
“I’m not beautiful anymore You said so”
He used the grip he had on her hand to tug her down to his chest “I said you looked ill, not ugly, you foolish woman”
“But I don’t have sultry green eyes now,” she said, re what he used to say about them
“Now you have eyes that change color with your ”
“My hair is short and mouse brown”
He laughed and tousled the aforementioned hair “It is sexy as sin and you know it As for the color…how can you complain when it shines like liquid sand?”
“But I’m shaped like a pumpkin”
He used one knee to part her legs so she draped across hiainst her He thrust upward “Does this feel like I think you are ugly?”
What was the question? She couldn’t re into a puddle of desire on top of hiotten and brought her body to the peak of pleasure over and over again She didn’t have the energy to start another discussion when they were done She found herself slipping into sleep cuddled against his side, feeling nancy
Warm security surrounded Alexandra and she didn’t want to make the trip to full wakefulness HowParis? She was back in Dimitri’s bed, his arms wrapped around her like protective bands, their lower limbs entwined to make them two parts of one whole It seemed so real, but she knew if she allowed her mind to continue its journey toward co cold reality behind
He shifted against her, rubbing his hairy leg between her smooth limbs and she rocketed to co hair over a bronze,with her sensory iht before blasted her conscious mind
They hadthe baby, asking her every tiain and again Because she had wanted him The last time, he’d woken her around dawn and seduced her with a sensitivity that had touched all the way to her soul
It was incomprehensible that the ht before could be the salance
Only according to hirandfather had refused life-saving surgery until Die her eviction from his life had not been voluntary soothed some of her still lacerated emotions, it did not soothe them all