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"She owned an apartment in New York?" Rachel sounded more annoyed than overjoyed by that piece of news
"I suppose you're going to tell me you want to donate that to charity as well?" he asked derisively
"No, of course not"
"I didn't think so"
"If you'll have the deed drawn up, I'll sign it back over to the estate"
Sebastian reared to his feet, sending his chair crashing backward "What kind of ga?"
Rachel paled, but drew herself up, uncrossing her legs andforward on her chair
"I'aht aboutto put a brake on Andrea's behavior I didn't try and I'll have to live with that knowledge for the rest of my life, but I refuse to personally profit by it I simply won't" The fervor in Rachel'stime, or she was entirely sincere
"There is no need for you to esture," he dis his words the day before had instigated this conversation "While there is no doubt your ain, her ibly in a financial sense"
He listed off the few properties and cars Andrea had been gifted by Matthias in their six year long e
None of which did Sebastian have any desire to take possession of It had been the personal cost ofwoman that had hurt Matthias and subsequently his family so much
"Then it should be a sinificant properties are returned to the estate and smaller possessions donated to charity"
"My uncle would not have wanted you to give up claiuided atte so"
She shook her head and sreen eyes glow and his breathing go from normal to erratic
"You are so used to getting your oay, you amaze me"
"Is that so?" He wasn't sure if her words were a condemnation or not
"Yes You're absolutely confident that you can dictate my decisions for me" Her lips still twitched with humor
"And you find this a?"
Her lips tucked into a prim bow "Not really, it's merely that it apparently has not occurred to you, but it's up to me how I dispose of Andrea's property If you refuse to accept reversion to the estate, then I will donate it all to worthy causes"
Without warning, the a ofat all"
"It is too late You carry her genes" The cynical words were out before he thought better of them and he cursed in Greek as Rachel's face leached of all color
She stood up, a visible tre him with indictment for the pain he saw there "If you don't have the necessary papers for n before I leave Greece, I will see to the disposal of the properties when I return to America''
She turned and walked froo, frustration gripping his insides
Damn it all to hell Why had he said that?
Rachel had come into his uncle's study and set all of Sebastian's preconceived ideas on their head She had proven in the most basic way that her ible and still he had taunted her with being Andrea's daughter
It had been unfair and obviously painful to her
He could not reized to a woman, but he was sure he needed to offer one now
Rachel sat across from Phillippa Kouros and wondered why she'd talked herself into joining the fa for yet another meal to be served in her rooe from Sebastian He'd sent a servant to inform her he expected her to share the meal with the family
And she'd co to offend him
Why did she care what the judght of her? He'd shown her that despite his kindness in the past, just like everyone else, he saw her through a glass tinted by her mother's bad blood So what if he was the one man she'd ever felt a physical reaction to?
Her adolescent fantasies of him as the hero of her dreaes forever from her brain
Whichher best to complete the break with the Kouros and Demakis families
Nevertheless, she found herself trying to draw his mother into conversation The older wonore