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“It’s right outside that big room? By the foyer?”
He gave a short nod
“I’ll find it”
“Until then” With a small bow, he left Holly looked after him, until the baby whimpered plaintively in her arms
Was she being unkind, insisting on believing the worst of Stavros? Was it possible he actually wished to be a loving father to Freddie?
If he did, and Holly pushed him away from their son, then she would be the selfish one Was she really protecting their baby? Or just wanting to punish Stavros, toand then abandoning her?
Lost in these unsettling thoughts, Holly gave her baby a bath in the en suite bathroom, then dried him off with a thick cotton towel As she nuzzled his dark hair, breathing in his sweet newborn smell, she suddenly wished she’d never left Switzerland All she wanted to do was be safe
And nothing about Stavros Minos was safe Not to her body Not to her heart
She shivered, re how his dark eyes had burned when he’d said he intended to marry her Every moment she spent with hiht they’d conceived their child Every moh her body
She took a deep breath, looking out at the balcony where the sun was setting brilliantly over the Aegean Sea, past the pal on this remote Greek island, in a place that seemed expressly made for seduction?
Grabbing Freddie’s old, clean footie paja table and then carried hi the sea where the sun was falling into the water Twenty minutes later, she tucked him into the crib, droith a full belly
Going to the en suite bathroo her own eyes in theherself in the thick white robe from the door, she went back into the closet and looked in her overnight bag The thick hoodie, turtleneck and jeans she’d packed see for Greece Snoitzerland seemed a million miles away
Biting her lip, Holly slowly looked around the enormous closet New clothes, in both her size and the baby’s, had been neatly folded on the shelves and were hanging fro to her feet, she touched a white cotton sundress For asoft fabric sliding over her skin as Stavros kissed her, his naked, powerful body hard against hers—
Electricity burned through her, hten and her body tremble
No!