Billionaire's Baby of Redemption by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart [Smart, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474072571
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-09-06T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

IN THAT MOMENT, standing in the doorway of Javier’s gym, Sophie glimpsed the anger and pain resonating from his eyes and knew she had made the right decision to come to him.

For the second time in one night she had found courage she’d never known she possessed.

His revelations about his treatment of Benjamin had shocked her to her core but not, she suspected, for the reasons he’d wanted her to be shocked.

There had been fleeting remorse when she had questioned him about the contract. Only fleeting, but she had seen it.

Javier wanted her to hate him, she’d realised as she’d sat frozen on the empty bed.

He hated himself.

When he’d looked at her and made the cutting comment about his father killing his mother...

It had been a veiled warning to her that had suddenly made sense of everything: his distance, his solitary life, his brusqueness...

Javier had built the steel heart to protect himself, believing he was protecting others from himself.

Was it coincidence that he didn’t drink?

His father had been a violent alcoholic whose drunken outbursts and hair-trigger temper had seen an early, ignominious end to his dance career.

By contrast, his mother’s career had soared. Today, over twenty years after her death, she was still regarded as one the most dazzling ballerinas to have graced the world’s stages.

Clara Casillas’s dazzling star had been snuffed out when her husband had locked her in her dressing room after she’d performed in Romeo & Juliet and strangled her with his bare hands. Javier and his twin had been thirteen.

What kind of life had they had with a father like that, even before he’d so cruelly taken their mother’s life?

It twisted her heart to imagine the cruelty Javier had been on the receiving end of and witness to.

His heart had been so damaged that he’d remorselessly used his oldest friend to his own advantage and cut his own twin from his life.

If she had any sense she would cut and run, flee from this beautiful villa and keep running as far as she could from him.

But how could she do that and live with her conscience?

Javier was trying to protect her from himself. That in itself proved the father of her child was not irredeemable.

Buried deep inside him was a good man fighting to get out.

And here, in his private gym, he’d been fighting his demons with a punching bag, his bare torso glistening with perspiration, evidence of the exertion he’d used.

He would never use her or any other person as his punching bag. That was a certainty she felt right in her marrow.

She was not ready to wave the white flag.

She stepped over to him.

‘I thought you might be thirsty,’ she said softly, holding the glass out.

His throat moved.

The fleshy lips pulled into a tight line before he took the glass from her and, his eyes holding hers, drank the water in four huge swallows.

The knuckles holding the glass were red.

‘Shouldn’t you wear boxing gloves?’

His shoulders rose in a shrug, the light brown eyes still not moving from hers.

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