An Heir for the Millionaire by Julia James

Author:Julia James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-07-02T22:00:00+00:00

Slowly, holding her hand, Xander walked her back towards the villa.

‘I didn’t know anything about love. Did not know that that was what I had started to feel for you. I only knew that you were a woman I did not want to lose. A woman whose cool composure seemed to inflame me with desire.’

A sensual, reminiscent smile played at his mouth, and Clare felt the so-familiar weakness start inside her.

‘It got to me—every time. More and more. I revelled in the difference that only I could make in you, the sensuality beneath the surface that only I could release in you. When we were out together I didn’t like you to touch me. I liked you to look untouched—untouchable. Waiting for me. Waiting for me to get you back to the hotel, the apartment, where I could finally indulge myself in doing what I’d been holding back from all evening…’

Clare looked at him. Was that why he had been like that? Not because he’d thought her out of line being physically demonstrative towards him even in the briefest way?

‘I didn’t know,’ she said. Her voice was faint again.

He glanced at her, frowning. ‘You must have known—I couldn’t keep my hands off you. You must have seen that I was…losing control. And that last time—surely that last time you must have seen, known, sensed that I was…?’

Her throat tightened. Pain, remembered pain, pierced her.

‘I did! I thought it meant—meant that you were beginning…that I might mean something to you. But then…’ she could hardly speak ‘…then you came back and took me out to dinner, and I was trying to screw up my courage, to pin my hopes on a future with you and tell you…tell you that I was pregnant.’ She swallowed. ‘And then you spoke first.’

His hand crushed hers, tightening automatically. He stopped dead.

‘Theos mou—that it should have hung in the balance on so fine a thread. How the gods mocked me that night. If I had only—only—’

Anguish silenced him. She lifted his hand with hers, bringing it to her mouth and kissing it as she might Joey’s, to comfort him.

‘We can’t undo the past, Xander—neither of us can. We can only—’ her voice caught ‘—only be grateful—so very, very grateful—that we have been given a second chance.’ She took a deep, painful breath. ‘I know I should have come back to tell you about Joey. I know that. I’ve known it all these years, and fought it. Fought it for my own selfish reasons. Because I was too much a coward to think of anyone but myself. Because I could not face letting you back into my life after you had thrown me out of it. Could not face being what I knew I must be—the unwanted mother of your son. I told myself I did not need to tell you because you would not want Joey anyway—that you would, out of common decency, pay for him, but you would not want him. And when you found out about him, and you were so angry, I knew—I knew you had a right to be.

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