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Pixie shifted across the bed inch by inch, wishing it weren’t quite so big Her hand settled on the male shoulder furthest fronificent torso She smiled as she felt his hard muscles ripple and tense across his abdomen

He turned towards her and his eyes glittered in the ht ‘We shouldn’t,’ he breathed with sudden amusement

‘Don’t be silly,’ Pixie whispered, her tiny hand heading further south to find the long, jutting length of hinant, not breakable’

Apollo groaned out loud and arched his lean hips while watching her slide below the sheet to administer an even more potent invitation and that fast his once renowned self-control broke like a daed Pixie up to hi iry ency

‘That’s azed up at hih his dao-boosting confirence warned her that he was a young healthy male, as usually in the le, choosing to concentrate instead on the soothing conviction that pregnancy wasn’t quite the turn-off she had feared

‘There is only one way this can continue,’ Apollo decreed, resting her back against the pillows ‘You lie there… I do the work, koukla mou’

And it was a into an exhausted and gratified sleep, but then it alas a with Apollo

Apollo held her while she slept and marvelled at how natural it had becoe hand splayed across her flat stomach How had he ever believed that he could walk away untouched after conception occurred? How had he credited that he could bring a child into the world and not want to play a full part in his son or daughter’s life? The unquestioning arrogance of those selfish assued his view of himself As fond memories of moments with his own father while he was still a little boy drifted through his mind he finally understood Vassilis Metraxis’s aluard the continuation of the fae from his own child wasn’t an option he would ever be able to live with

CHAPTER TEN

THREE WEEKS LATER, Pixie blinked sleepily into wakefulness and finally sat up tothe eht hours since Apollo had flown to London on business Pixie would have acco ready for the big party the following day With the housekeeper, Oly Pixie with query after query it had slowly dawned on her that she needed to stay on Nexos to take charge

‘Nonsense,’ Apollo had declared without hesitation ‘These ed without a wife’s input for years’

But during that conversation Pixie had had to race off and be horribly sick, which had driven home hard another drawback Hours of travel with her current delicate stomach would make her miserable and she was in no hurry to face Apollo with the repugnant downside of pregnancy She was being ill an awful lotsickness seemed to attack at all tiements as an excuse because she didn’t want Apollo to realise just how sick she was While in her head she knew she should be sharing her suffering with hile to overcome her reluctance He would fuss and she hated fuss and didn’t want to be treated like an invalid In any case they had arranged for Pixie to have her first scan that very afternoon and she planned to ask the visiting gynaecologist then about her seely excessive sickness

Pixie put the phone to her ear

‘Pixie?’ Holly exclai into a mile-a-minute speech that left Pixie, as still drowsy, none the wiser