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“The phone is for you It is your sister”

Alexandra crawled across the bed and took the phone from Dimitri’s outstretched hand “Madeleine?”

“Yes It’swith you-knoho?” Madeleine sounded nervous

“Don’t ask”

“That bad, huh?”

Bad? No More like foolish Falling into bed with Dimitri the first ti it this ti with the effects of his betrayal was outright stupidity “We’ve got a lot to discuss, that’s all”

“Did he show you proof he didn’t irl?”

“Yes”

“That’s good anyway Hunter said he would Maybe he’s not a complete swine”

“Hunter or Dimitri?” she asked facetiously

“Both,” was her sister’s surprising and emphatic reply

“Is everything all right, chérie?”

“Well…”

“Madeleine…” she said in a voice she had used since childhood to encourage her sister to fess up

“It’s all Hunter’s fault!”

Hunter, the ths tohe’d done anything to hurt Madeleine “What’s all his fault?”

“He had a business contact invite Dimitri to the party…on purpose!”

Pure shock traveled through Alexandra “What?”

“He said he orried about you He didn’t think you were adjusting to life without Dimitri very well and wanted to know if there was a chance for you two Hunter made discreet inquiries and found out Di for Xandra Fortune since a couple of days after you landed in New York Reested you call Dimitri and try to work it out?”

She remembered It had been a week after the ultrasound “I told him I’d rather move in with Mama”

Madeleine laughed, albeit stiltedly “He didn’t know you thought Diure out why you wouldn’t at least give the father of your baby one more chance”

“So he decided to take the choice out of ed and outclassed Hunter had been right and she and Diht be Still…“Save ant men”

“I slept in the guest room,” Madeleine said with a certain amount of satisfaction

Evidently Hunter didn’t kno to pick a lock

“I’ because of me”

“He could have toldif he told me Dimitri wasn’t really married”

“Maddy!”

“Well, Hunter was right about one thing You ilting without Di than you have in the past three months”

Alexandra didn’t kno to respond to that bit of truth, so she changed the subject “Is that all you called about?”

“Actually, no…” She was back to sounding nervous

What more could there be?

“Mother flew in on an early ht and she wanted to knohere you were and I didn’t want to tell her, but then Hunter ca World War III and told her you were staying at a hotel with Dimitri Mother fainted and I screa to me…” At this point Madeleine’s voice broke

“Oh, chérie I don’t want my problems to become yours”

Madeleine gave a watery laugh “That’s so like you You took care of mother and me when Daddy died and tolerated Mama’s disapproval But when it couilty, for Heaven’s sake!”