Her Last Night of Innocence by Grey India

Author:Grey, India [Grey, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 0263878686
Publisher: Mills Boon
Published: 2007-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

The magnificent flaming skies of last night were a distant memory—like something from a dream. Overnight the weather had done an alarming volte face, and the new day was one of dense iron-grey fog that blanketed the mountains and turned the landscape into a gloomy monochrome oil painting.

Not only was it grim to look at, it was lethal too. Cristiano steered the car down the mountainside with rigid, tense-jawed focus. Yesterday’s sun had thawed the top layer of snow, which had then frozen again overnight, turning the roads to glass. Not exactly the kind of terrain the Campano had been designed to handle, but with the snow chains it was coping surprisingly well.

Which just went to show that appearances could be deceptive, Cristiano thought bitterly. He’d thought he was the one with things to hide, but all the time she had been keeping some fairly major secrets of her own.

‘How old is your son?’

She started slightly at the directness of the question. Or maybe it was the tone of his voice, which sounded harsher than he’d intended in the silence of the car.

‘Just three.’

‘And are you still married to Dominic?’

He was aware of her turning her head to look at him. Glancing across, he saw that her blue eyes were wide and bewildered in her ashen face. ‘Dominic? No…God, no, you’ve got it all wrong. Dominic’s not his father, he’s my boss, and he and his wife Lizzie are my friends. Their daughter is a similar age to Alexander. He was staying with them while I—’

She stopped, her mouth open, her expression suddenly stricken.

‘This isn’t your fault,’ Cristiano said harshly, wondering why he felt so relieved that this Dominic person wasn’t the father of her child. Someone was, and he couldn’t think of any reason why the identity of that person should matter to him. It was the fact that she had a child that was important, he thought savagely. The fact that she was a mother. You didn’t screw around with women who had children. Children meant involvement. Commitment. And he didn’t do commitment.

Dio, why the hell did he feel as if he was trying to convince himself?

Automatically he pulled out to overtake the line of cars in front, and made use of the Campano’s impressive acceleration. It was only as he roared away that he remembered her fear of speed.

‘Do you want me to slow down?’

She shook her head, looking out of the window at the dingy landscape. ‘No, please…I just want to get there.’ They were lower down now, but the fog still lay heavily—a grimy curtain shutting out the mountains in the distance. The roads were busier now, with people going to work on an ordinary day. Queues of traffic were building up behind unhurried tourists in camper vans.

‘It’s stupid, isn’t it?’ Kate said in a low, aching voice. ‘I wasted all that time being scared of things that never happened. Plane crashes and freak accidents. I wanted to remake the world for him and make it safe.

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