Christmas Babies for the Italian by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Holiday, Billionaires, Contemporary, Holidays
ISBN: 9781488068720
Google: bz7XDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-01T10:26:45.579446+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘IS IT TRUE? Is that man my father?’ Amy asked sharply as the limo ferried them away from the airport. It was the first time she had been able to speak and expect to be heard since they had left the party and it was also the first moment that was truly private. The helicopter had been too noisy, and they had not been alone.

‘It’s true. I had Lawson investigated. Your mother worked in the same company with him for several years. He was actually engaged to her and living with her when the boss’s daughter began to show an interest in him. He ditched your mother and married Cecily not long afterwards,’ he explained curtly. ‘His affair with your mother started up again after the marriage and that was when you were conceived. He’s an ambitious man and marrying Cecily paid off handsomely. As soon as Cecily’s father died, he became CEO of her family insurance firm.’

‘It’s extremely weird to get those facts from you, facts I would have liked to have known years ago but which my mother refused to share.’ After making that honest admission, Amy released her breath audibly. ‘What I still don’t understand is what you have against Oliver Lawson that you would confront him like that with me tonight?’

Sev’s spectacular bone structure tensed, his dark golden eyes shimmering with sudden aggression as he sent her a cool flashing glance. ‘He’s also the father of Annabel’s baby.’

Further shock rippled through Amy and she froze then, her muscles bunching so tight that she ached all over. Oliver… Olly, she recalled his sister saying. More bad news, she thought unhappily, as if she did not already have enough to deal with, but there was the deeper, more personal motivation that had driven Sev. Unasked, he filled in the parts of his sibling’s story that Amy hadn’t known, and her heart sank even more. Her birth father, it seemed, was a total creep, a user and abuser of women, shallow, manipulative and dishonest and a complete bully when things didn’t go his way. Two decades on, the man who had embittered and disillusioned her mother had clearly not changed for the better.

‘I was determined to punish him but I also needed to protect my sister from further exposure,’ Sev continued flatly. ‘Once I found out about you and understood how very careful he had been to keep your existence a secret from his wife, I realised that you were his weakness and would make the perfect weapon.’

‘The perfect pawn,’ Amy contradicted bitterly, and then she compressed her lips together to prevent her emotional turmoil from spilling out and humiliating her even more. She was nobody, she was nothing to Sev, a means to an end and nasty Oliver’s unwanted daughter. Sev had utilised her without any thought or consideration of what he might be doing to her. It hadn’t mattered to him that in targeting her father and using her to do so, he would also be hurting her.

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