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A knock caain This time it was Pixie who rushed to answer it because she desperately needed a breathing space to get her thoughts in order and was thinking of diving for the bathrooain Twobehind only the wine and the glasses

‘There’s no way on earth I could go to bed with you!’ Pixie spluttered out bluntly withoutto as soon as the door had shut on the men’s exit

Apollo studied her in open astonish his handsome dark head back and roared with unfettered ahed so hard he almost tipped the chair back while she stared at him in disbelief

‘I really don’t understand how you can find that so funny,’ Pixie snapped when he had regained control of hier and that ular basis but it’s not so an awful lot of sex,’ she told hi with extreme stress and embarrassment ‘Because it could take months and months to conceive a child I couldn’t do it There’s absolutely no way I could do that with you!’

‘You sound a little hysterical and I’m surprised,’ Apollo admitted ‘Holly’s the starry-eyed type but you struck me as more sensible Marryin a dump like this to save your brother and o away… I can et a better offer’

Mortification had claimed Pixie because she knew she had sounded panic-stricken Face hot, she retreated to the bed and sank down on the edge of thesex with Apollo drove every sensible thought froiant ‘no’ froo she had promised herself that sex would only ever be coinity siement with Apollo Metraxis intended to conceive a child and moreover a child he didn’t really want

Apollo studied her in frustration He didn’t understand rong A woman had never found him unattractive before He knew she didn’t like hi necessary to a successful sexual liaison Sex was like food in Apollo’s life, so he enjoyed on a frequent basis and wasted little ti about He was amazed that she had concentrated her objections on the need for a sexual relationship Head down bent, she sat on the side of the bed in a rigid position with one ar atte out fro was too wary of Apollo’s presence to e watchfully from deep under the mattress

‘Tell me what the problem is…’ he invited impatiently

‘I don’t want to have a baby with someone who doesn’t love me or my child,’ Pixieup with the parents from hell!’

Apollo was taken aback ‘I don’t want a woht ant to stay married to me and I ant my freedom back as soon as I have fulfilled the ter a ho lovedsoe was a fake created to circu for myself, I can’t put love on the table for any woman But, I would hope and expect to love my child’

That admission soothed only one of Pixie’s concerns because her brain could not sur to bed with Apollo again and again and again A trickle of heat sidled through her slender fraher and focussed on her toreous and he knew it but that did not mean he would be kind or considerate in bed What did she feel like? A ood price? That was nonsense because the choice, the decision was hers alone And wo men for reasons far removed from love for centuries Some women married to have children, some for money, some for security and so too much of a fuss over the sexual component Sex was a physical pastime, not a mental one

So, did thatApollo’s ridiculous proposition? She took ain her brother’s debt She didn’t have a life She couldn’t afford to have a life She went to work, she came home, ate as cheaply as she could and saved every possible penny Aside from Hector, who woman but sixth sense warned her that Apollo, if displeased, probably had the power to reat deal more miserable Even so, when Holly visited the UK, Pixie went to meet her and they would have a meal and a couple of drinks and for a few sunny hours Pixie would forget her worries and enjoy being with her friend again If she married Apollo, she would surely see much more of Holly, wouldn’t she?

But then nothing couldto do, she reasoned unhappily It would be akin to renting out her woh she loved children and very elo, from when they had both lived with her, she had never planned to have a child so young or to raise one alone To plan to do that would be wrong, she thought with a shudder of distaste And Apollo had also re his father’s ould be breaking the law and she refused to be involved in anything of that nature

‘I can’t believe you are willing to go to such lengths just for h uess it’s different for you’

‘I’ht,’ Apollo contradicted drily ‘But there is more to this than money There is my family home on the island where all inally founded by randfather, the very roots of my family It took my father’s death for me to appreciate that I’ to admit even to myself’