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Apollo bit out a laugh, perceptive eyes erous in my vicinity because I’m stubborn and proud as hell too We’d clash but we’d also have fireworks, not so I usually look for with a woman but I’dyou eat every word of your defiance and your denial…’

Her blood ran cold in her veins because she believed hirowl that she had never heard from him before

Apollo laughed again with genuine appreciation ‘Aw, stop kidding yourself, dog! You’re not going to attack You’re too scared even to come out from under the bed What do you call hie of subject

‘Hector’

‘Hector was a Trojan prince and a great ary Did you know that?’ he enquired lazily as he strolled out of the door

‘No, I didn’t I just thought the name suited him,’ she mumbled weakly

She didn’t breathe again until she had closed the door and she rested back against it with eyes shut and the strangest sense of disappoint way Apollo Metraxis had energised her The threat gone, Hector scampered joyously out from below the bed and danced at her feet She lifted hied little ears, and cuddled hi, Hector I na her face in his tousled fur, feeling her lips tingle as she thought of that almost-but-not-quite kiss that had left her foolishly,more

Patrick Skyped her that evening, his thin face worn, eyes shadowed ‘I’ve got bad news,’ he told her heavily ‘Maria’s pregnant and she’s not well’

‘Pregnant?’ Pixie gasped in dismay

Patrick griether three years now,’ he reminded his sister with a weak atte her so ill because she can’t stand on her feet all day in a shop in her current condition I’ to look after her?’

‘Give her s because she very well knew that her brother’s pregnant partner could bring his entire debt repay down round their ears because it was a struggle for him to make his monthly payment as it was

Her brother’s blue eyes glittered ‘I hate asking but could youextra this month?’

‘I’ll see what I can do,’ Pixie said thickly, not wanting him to realise that she could see the tears in his eyes

A few h she had received a punch in the stoile as a house built of cards If one card fell, they would all fall She groaned out loud She couldn’t afford to give Patrick any more money and she should have adhts had flown straight to Apollo because she wanted her little brother to stay alive and in one piece and if he couldn’t keep up those payments, he could well pay with his life

Patrick was under threat and now there was Maria and a new baby on the way to consider as well, Pixie reflected wretchedly How could she ignore their plight? How could she turn her back on them when Apollo had made it clear that if she did as he asked he would o away? And suddenly she was just desperate for those bad things to go away and for life to return to norain

Apollo as saviour? That concept didn’t work Apollo washimself than other people In fact Pixie and her brother were ically on Apollo’s s and emotions didn’t come into it for Apollo and how ht enviously She lifted the card and snatched up her phone

I will be your Baby Ma heart