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‘Ne…yes,’ Apollo conceded gruffly in Greek ‘But I have been running my father’s business empire for many years now and his will feels like a betrayal’

‘I can understand that,’ Pixie said thoughtfully ‘You trusted hio back into prison but he didn’t even try to go straight and keep his pro and she didn’t The only thing that finally stopped her was ill health’

Apollo studied her in astonish whether or not to be offended that she had co father to a couple of career criminals

Enjoying her delicious fish, Pixie was deep in thought and surprised that she could relax to that extent in Apollo’s volatile radius ‘I get your predicament,’ she confided ‘But the terms of the will must be public property, and they aren’t confidential, so what—?’

‘I have decided that I rimly ‘I am not prepared to lose the hoenerations of ’

‘Attachment meets practicality,’ Pixie quipped ‘I still don’t understand what any of this has to do with me’

Apollo set down his plate and lifted his wine glass ‘I intend to meet the demands of the will on reen eyes glittering below black curling lashes ‘I don’t want a wife I will hire a woman to marry me and have my child We will then separate and divorce and ain’

‘And what about the child?’ Pixie prompted with a frown of dismay ‘What will happen to the child in all this?’

‘The child will remain with its mother and I will atteoal is to negotiate a civilised and workable arrangement with the woman of my choice’

‘Well, good luck with that a into her ed on the floor beside the coffee table because there was only one chair and predictably Apollo had not offered it to her ‘It sounds like a very tall order tobut practical What woman wants to marry and have a child and then be divorced?’

‘A woman I have paid well to marry and divorce me,’ Apollo said drily ‘I don’t want to end up with one ill cling’

Pixie rolled her eyes and laughed ‘When a woy’

‘Then you’d be surprised to learn how hard I find it to prise myself free of even the shortest liaison Woive it up’

Pixie set down her plate and lifted the wine glass he had filled ‘You do indeed have a problem,’ she commented with a certain amount of amusement at his predica in me of all people!’

‘Are you always this slow on the uptake?’

Her smooth brow indented as she sipped her wine and looked up at hily from below her spidery lashes ‘What do you mean?’

She had beautiful eyes, Apollo acknowledged in surprise, eyes of a lurey that shone like polished silver in certain lights ‘What do you think I’ here with you?’ he prompted huskily

Green eyes rey and an arrow of forbidden heat shot to the heart of Pixie She froze into uneasy stillness, her heart banging inside her chest like a panic button that had been stabbed because all of a sudden she felt vulnerable…vulnerable and…needy, the very worst word in her vocabulary when it related to a man

‘I believe that for the right price you could be the woman I et a wife, who knows and accepts that the et your brother off the hook and a much more comfortable and secure life afterwards’