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She pressed the button to race to his insistence on her staying overnight under a doctor's surveillance She kneas the right thing to do, but she had not counted on the sense of obligation she would feel toward Sebastian when she'd called hi he did to take care of her made her feel like she was in his debt and she didn't like it at all
"I'et a lot more stressed before ould have to worry about a heart attack or stroke"
His face turned to stone at the words and she wished she hadn't been so specific Sebastian's complexion was the color of the ocean on a cloudy day and his slate gray eyes were bleak
"I aain
She would be willing to bet that he had apologized more in the last hour than he had in his whole adult life
While she thought he should feel bad for kissing her when he had no right, she felt uncouilt over her reaction to the kiss He believed that by exciting her physically, he had set off her atrial fib when in fact, anything could have caused it
She bit her lip and watched hi at her conscience
"I wasn't doing anythingat ency"
He looked at her as if his superior brain for once could notShe spelled it out for him "I could have had the atrial fib attack even if all I'd been doing was sitting beside you in the car,my own business It was not your fault"
"It was" Sebastian was as terrifying in guilt ry
There was no reasoning with him
“According to the doctor, within twenty-four hours on the beta-blockers, we don't need to be worried about another attack, even if we make love" She'd blushed the color of a red ball sunset when the heart specialist had felt co hiuilt trip
"This is good" His sri my bed"
"I haven't," she said, horrified he'd taken her words that way
"If you have not then why bring up the future safety of such an event?"
"I was trying to get you out of guilt mode," she said with total exasperation
"Strange that you should care aboutwhen you hate me so much"
"I never said I hated you"
He looked way too complacent at that assurance
"I said I don't trust you and I don't"
"You trust me to take care of you and our baby"
"That is not the saain"
"Since you have had no other lovers, I am still your lover"
"Stop arguing seain"
"That is all right We can make love on the couch like we did the first tiain It is inevitable"
She glared at him "It is not inevitable"
His s and she wished she could be a little ht
Sebastian talked her into staying in the clinic for five days until her blood work showed improvement in both her conditions Heaven alone kne he achieved it, but the heart specialist and two EMT workers flew to Greece on Sebastian's private plane with the-over by the heart specialist before being allowed to make the helicopter trip to the island
The one over her medical history with the doctor Sebastian had procured to stay on the island during her pregnancy She learned froraded the clinic on the island to be equipencies
Rachel couldn't even begin to ione to in order tomedical help was available if she needed it made her feel more secure, she didn't so much as tease him
Nevertheless, the extensive preparations surprised her when he could have kept her in Athens ard to both his business and her s after her arrival on the island, she woke to live music outside her bedroom