Claiming His Unknown Son by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-13T13:22:02+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

HOW MANY TIMES had he visited the Bardales family estate in Spain since he and Rio had inherited it from their father? Three or four occasions and on only one of those had he extended his stay overnight. This might have explained the shock displayed by the staff on his unexpected arrival. Even the undemonstrative estate manager who had walked in as Roman was giving instructions concerning the guests they were to expect had looked shaken. In fact, the other man had been so thrown by Roman’s presence that his handshake had turned into an affectionate bear hug for the man he had known since he was a boy.

He wasn’t the only member of staff to seem pleased to see him, but Roman felt it wasn’t an affection he deserved considering how long he had avoided the place that came burdened with too many memories.

Roman rarely slept late, but he had finally fallen asleep around five a.m. and by the time he clawed his way out of his restless slumber he glanced at his phone, saw the time and groaned.

He fell out of bed and into the car, the heavy traffic he had to negotiate on his way to the airport not improving the tension that had climbed into his shoulders. He was reluctant to admit even to himself that he was nervous, but this was definitely not your average day at the office. Even clinging to a rock face by a fingertip above a drop of several thousand feet would have been infinitely more relaxing.

He wasn’t late, but he wasn’t early either, and his efforts to check out the situation were frustrated by the arrivals board, which seemed to have gone totally blank.

He was making his way through the crowded concourse to the information desk when an overheard snippet of conversation made him stop. He tapped the man who had been speaking on his shoulder.

‘London plane? You said they had lost contact with the London plane?’

The man nodded. ‘You have someone on it?’

‘My family.’ Roman felt as if an icy fist had reached into his chest and grasped his heart. Then he shook his head, stubbornly refusing to accept that they could have...

‘Which flight are they on...the one from Heathrow or Gatwick?’

Roman just stared at him blankly. His brain had stopped working and the suffocating black coldness was pressing in on him.

‘Here you are. I’ve been looking for you everywhere!’

Roman spun around. Marisa was standing there looking tired, cranky and quite incredibly beautiful as she expertly jiggled a pushchair in which Jamie lay fast asleep.

She didn’t have a clue what was about to happen as he reached out for her, one hand curving around the nape of her neck the other one framing her face. Her eyes flew wide in comprehension a second before his mouth came down hard on hers in a long plundering, sensually explosive kiss that went on and on.

When it ended she was leaning into him, her knees shaking as she gasped for breath. He set her back on her feet a little way away from him.

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