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“I find that inexplicable”
A wavery smile tilted her lips “You certainly weren’t fooled”
Reer shimmered in his eyes “No”
“You were so sure it was me and yet I must have looked very different to you,” she mused
“You are nize you in the dark”
“You did,” she said, helplessly reht before
His smile was predatory “Yes”
“Sex isn’t everything,” she admonished him
“But it is a start, is it not, yineka ainst her protruding belly “And we have this precious child we share as well”
If only she could believe him, but she didn’t trust hie? “You’re afraid I won’t give you access, aren’t you? You think you’ll have more say in our baby’s life if we’re married”
“I will, but that is not why I want to marry you”
“Then why?” she demanded
“You once said we had soain”
“Impossible”
“Nothing is impossible, Alexandra”
Believing he ly aware her desires were at odds with her intellect She wanted toso would only open her heart to more hurt
“Your mother will be devastated if you refuse me”
Alexandra knew that all too well “My s do not dictate my life”
“You can say that after spending six years living a double life to protect her sensibilities?”
“Living as Xandra Fortune was infinitely preferable to the prospect of living as Alexandra Petronides” She didn’t knohy she’d said it To wound hiuilt assailed her the second the words left her
His jaw tautened, his blue eyes flashing anger “Think of our child Life as a legitimate Petronides will be infinitely preferable to life as the bastard child of the black sheep of the Dupree fa her words back at her
She flinched with the pain the words inflicted “Don’t use that word!”
His face registered regret and then deterain in relation to our son, regardless of your decision, but I cannot say the same for others”
“I know” She felt tears fill her eyes and she tried to blink them away
He cursed in Greek and pulled her against his chest “Do not cry, pethi mou I cannot stand it”
“Then it’s a good thing you weren’t around for the firstbut cry,” she said, hiccupping with her sed tears
His arhtened around her until she squeaked frorip immediately “I did not intend to hurt you”
Was he talking about just now, or three o?
She looked at him “Tell me about your parents, Dimitri You never have”
His sensual lips thinned
“How can you expect me to marry you when you won’t share your farandfather or your brother”
“I will invite , unfortunately Grandfather cannot travel yet You will o to Greece”
“What do you o to Greece?”
“It is where ill live”
“What if I want to live in New York?”
“Do you?” he asked with more patience than she expected
She aze and then looked away “I don’t want to raise our son in a big city,” she adht into his hands
“This is good” He gently tugged her face back around so she was caught in the coaze “The family home is on a s on the island but the Petronides hoe It will be a wonderful place for our son to grow up I should knoas raised there”
It sounded all too te
CHAPTER NINE
“IF I marry you and you divorceher deepest fear