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“I cannot just live with you, doing nothing,” she said quietly “I married you and came to Buenos Aires because you left me no choice, but you must see that this cannot last Let me at least act the part of your housekeeper Because you do not want me as your wife”

“And you?” he said ly “Do you want me as your husband?”

She sed, trying not to remember the ridiculous dreanant, when she’d dreained hiood husband Then, she’d wanted…

She shook her head She wouldn’t think of it! “I was doing fine on my own Noah and I were happy in Key West”

“Too bad” He took a drink of the expensive red wine fro back”

It was exactly what she’d feared he would say, but she lifted her head defiantly “Of course we’re going back I have a business to run, and a family that needs me—”

“Consider the bakery a gift to your sister,” he said carelessly “She nons it”

She stared at him in shock, then narrowed her eyes

“You are out of yourher fork toward hiive away the business I love, the business I built and created with s after I worked for you for five hard years—”

“Yes, I am certain that was a fate worse than death,” he said coolly, taking another sip of the red wine “But your sister and her daughter will do ith the bakery They will be happy and secure That is what you want, is it not?”

She ground her teeth

“Of course it is But I want to be there with them! I’ve missed too much time with them already,” she said softly, then shook her head “Florida is my home You cannot take me away from a place where I’ve made friends—”

“Sí,” he said sardonically “I saw your many friends when I was there Why don’t you admit the truth about why you’re so desperate to return?”

“Because I hate the sight of you?”

To her frustration, he seeave her a cold smile “Who is he?”