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Her tiny feet were tucked between his calves and his ainst her delec­table bottoree if she were to awaken in such a position She would accuse hiht before still bothered him

He'd ether in bed had been perfect and their passion had been mutual If she had convinced herself otherwise because of what had happened afterward, he had little hope of her giving him another chance

Carefully, so as not to wake her, he disengaged their bodies and got out of the bed, but he did not ih theshades and he watched her sleep She was so beautiful So gentle

And the mother of his baby

He gave thanks for her pregnancy, certain that had she not conceived she would never have contacted hiain And Heaven alone knehen Haould have found her otherwise

He'd engaged the services of the international in­vestigative firm the day she left, but she'd ht Sebastian understood that now She'd been traveling under a different name Newman

He could not believe it had never once occurred to him after the rather one-sided discussion with his ht take that sort of concrete action to distance herself fro Demakis She'd made a totally new life for herself in the States and had told him that day in the study how much she'd hated the media attention

He appreciated the reality of how separate her new life was fro to find a clue to her whereabouts in Andrea's New York apartment The only number Andrea had had there for Rachel had been disconnected two years previously

He'd asked his mother how she'd contacted Rachel to apprise her of Andrea's death After another lecture on his intelligence, or lack thereof, she had told him the contact information had been in an address book of Andrea's Rachel had tossed it when cleaning out her s His mother's attitude had soft­ened toward him when she realized he had no idea of how to contact Rachel, but wanted to

Later, he had remembered Rachel's claim that one of Andrea's friends had contacted her and he'd had Hawk interview the woator hit pay dirt when he'd literally had to offer money to one woman for Rachel's E-mail address

Sebastian had tried to contact her that night only to discover the E-e came back to him as undeliverable

Hawk had been working on tracing the account when Rachel called Yes, Sebastian had nant the first time they made love, but he was also concerned about her health

The fact she'd been going along without treat

He wasn't a violent man, but damn itshe could have died

Rachel walked into the kitchen, her nose sniffing ap­preciatively at the smell of bacon, buttery toast and aromatic coffee

She stopped on the threshold of the rooht of a bowl of freshly prepared fruit in the center of her s was the spectacle of Sebastian standing at the coffee loose over his lean hips

"You have hidden depths, Kouros" She took a deep whiff of the Suuessed you for a closet cook"

He turned fros and she realized his shirt was not only un­tucked, but unbuttoned as well

Bronze skin rippled over rock hard abs as he leaned over to place one of the uards is handy in the kitchen He just left"

Frouard had been cooking when Sebastian had woken her to tell her she had fifteen minutes to shower

They ate in silence for a little while before she asked, "Where did your security teaht?"

What she really wanted to ask here Sebastian had slept last night? As in, had he slept on her side of the bed with his arht she'd woken up at some point and been surrounded by male warmth She'd felt protected and slept better than she had since leaving Greece, but he'd gotten out of bed before her She simply could not be sure it had been a harmless drea instinctive and un­conscious comfort in his presence

"They stayed in a nearby hotel"

She pulled out one of the ladder-back dinette chairs and sat down "Nardo was okay with that?"

His security chief h they stayed in the background, there had even been security men in the apartment and at the villa the whole time she'd been there

"He was not given a choice"

She bet Nardo was an unhappy head of security this

"I don't mean to be a problem for you"

"You are not a proble in one hand, his gaze disturb­ingly intent on her "You are the mother of my un­born child"

"You say that with such assurance, but I'm still surprised you didn't want tests" About traumatized by astonishment really

"You were a virgin e made love The baby could have no other father"

"You're sure of that now?"

"Yes"