A Baby Scandal in Italy by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw [Shaw, Chantelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-15T12:22:28+00:00

Ivy hesitated and turned her head to look at Rafa. His gut twisted when he saw tears running down Ivy’s face, and he knew he was to blame. The boy he had once been had blamed himself when his mother had cried and he had not known how to console her. Deep down, he’d believed that his mother had not loved him, and he was a disappointment to her. Why else would she have been desperate to have another child?

His ex-wife had not loved him. Tiffany had fooled him into believing he had a daughter and that they were a happy family until her lies had been exposed. In his darkest hours, Rafa wondered if he was flawed in some way that meant he was unlovable.

Why was he thinking about love of all things? He desired Ivy and had wanted to have sex with her. He had not intended to upset her. She’d responded to him with a fiery passion that had made his body ache, and he’d been sure she’d wanted him to make love to her. Her revelation that she was as innocent as she sometimes seemed blew his mind. He couldn’t blame her for rejecting him. When she chose her first lover, he hoped she would choose a better man than him.

Rafa stood up and pulled his trousers on before he picked up his shirt. He walked over to Ivy and slipped the shirt around her shoulders. ‘Here, wear this.’

Black tracks of mascara were running down her face. She looked a heartbreakingly beautiful mess, and he felt guilty that he had made her cry. ‘Stay and talk to me. Please,’ he said gruffly.

She scrubbed her hand over her eyes. ‘You don’t want to talk.’

‘Yes, I do.’ He realised it was true. Admittedly, it was not how he had envisaged the night would unfold. When they had escaped from the party, he had been so turned on by her that he’d almost made love to her in the lift.

To his relief, Ivy did not resist when he took her hand and led her over to the sofa. ‘You are a gorgeous, sexy, independent woman, so how come you are still a virgin?’

She sat down and tucked her feet under her. His shirt swamped her tiny frame, and he was struck anew by her fragile beauty. She waited until he joined her on the sofa and said in a low voice, ‘I had cancer when I was a teenager and for a while it was touch and go if I would survive.’

Whatever Rafa might have expected her to say, it hadn’t been that. He felt a cold sensation on the back of his neck. Ivy was so full of life, and it was shocking to hear that she had come close to death.

‘It was a type of blood cancer. To begin with my symptoms were vague. I felt lethargic and bruised easily, but I didn’t think anything was seriously wrong. I’d left home at seventeen because I hated my new stepfather.

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