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CHAPTER ONE

KELLY’S face paled and her breathing see the hotel, the usual blonde on his arm She would have to be blonde, Jordan had a passion for theela Divine That didn’t surprise Kelly either; after five years there would have been a couple of dozen blondes, Angela Divine long ago replaced

Jordan hadn’t seen her as he walked over to the reception desk, so she had a aware of it He would be thirty-nine now, and he looked it, the grey hair at his te contrast to his jet black hair The grey hadn’t been there five years ago, and the deep lines of cynicism beside his nose and rey of his eyes was just as steely, his full mouth set in a firm line, the deep sensuality of his nature held firmly in check

Kelly stepped back as Jordan and the beautiful blonde got into the lift, and she rean to ascend It had been inevitable that this would happen, that they would ain sometime, and yet Kelly found she still wasn’t ready for it

Five years ago she had been eighteen, an easy victim to Jordan’s lethal charm She had fallen in love with the leashed vitality of hiht, and had remained in love with him until the day al to Jordan for ever had been destroyed, as surely as the child she had been carrying had been destroyed

She could still vividly re up in that cold clinical rooh she couldn’t re there She had soon found out!

‘I’one, Mrs Lord’

Kelly had blinked up at the young doctor, herBaby? What baby, she wanted to ask More to the point, whose baby?

‘Sleep now, Mrs Lord,’ a nurse soothed ‘Sleep now and your husband should be back when you wake up again’

‘Back?’ Kelly asked, her mouth very dry ‘Back from where?’

The nurse tucked the bedclothes o to his office, I think’

‘Oh yes,’ Kelly accepted bitterly She had known it would be so to do with his office that would take Jordan away from her when she needed him She turned away so that the nurse shouldn’t see her ready tears ‘Thank you,’ she murmured huskily ‘I think I should like to sleep now’

The nurse looked concerned ‘Would you like so to help you sleep?’

‘Why?’ Her voice was shrill as she looked up at the other girl ‘I’m not ill, am I?’

‘No, of course not But youweak after the baby’

Kelly frowned, her eyelids starting to droop sleepily without the necessity of drugs The nurse had mentioned a baby now She just wished she knehat they were talking about…

When she woke again the loss of her baby had shot into her like a knife, the baby she had only carried for five months, the baby who hadn’t stood a chance of survival when she had started to miscarry

Her blue eyes were tightly shut to hold out the cold reality of daylight for as long as possible Would Jordan have co that first? After all, she wasn’t ill, she had just lost the baby that had co in her life, the baby Jordan had neither wanted or desired

Her breath caught in a sob and she turned to bury her face in the pillow, crying out her misery and pain

‘Kelly?’ A hand caressed her shoulder through the thin own

She had flinched away fro slowly to look at her husband ‘Jordan,’ she greeted coldly, her eyes huge and bewildered in her pale face ‘Did you finish your business?’ she asked bitterly

Jordan frowned, a tall man, very attractive, who had stirred e six months earlier, and still continued to do so, as she knew to her cost