Shock, One-Night Heir by Melanie Milburne

Author:Melanie Milburne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin Mills and Boon Ltd.
Published: 2011-01-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

IF IT hadn’t been for his grandfather’s illness and the precarious state of his health, Maya would have walked out right then and there, just to prove him wrong.

‘Your confidence is misplaced, Giorgio,’ she said with a tart edge to her voice as she shoved the rings on her finger. ‘You know I am only here now because of your grandfather and the baby, both of whom could be gone within a matter of weeks.’

His brows snapped together. ‘Stop talking like that. It’s almost as if you want to lose this child. You heard what the doctor said. There is no reason to be so negative. You are in good health and the baby looks healthy for its age and stage.’

She glared back at him with her arms crossed over her middle. ‘Don’t tell me what I can and can’t say or what I can and can’t feel.’

Giorgio raked a hand through his hair but it did little to restore any order to it. If anything, it made Maya want to run her hands through it as she used to do. The temptation to do so was suddenly almost too much to bear. She needed his touch for reassurance. Coming back to the villa, as changed as it was, still affected her deeply. Just a few metres down the hall was the nursery she had so excitedly prepared all those years ago. Had he stripped it until it too was unrecognisable?

She was too frightened to ask.

‘Maya.’ He came over to where she was standing so stiffly and placed his hands gently on the top of her shoulders. ‘Forgive me,’ he said gruffly. ‘I am forgetting you are in the midst of a hormonal turmoil, let alone worrying about what’s happened in the past. I am worried too. I am desperately worried I won’t do or say the right thing, just like I did before. I am still learning how to do this. It’s all new to me. This time I want things to be perfect for you and the baby. Believe me, cara, I don’t want to upset you now. I don’t want to fight with you. I want to look after you.’

She took a steadying breath as she looked into his dark gaze. ‘What did you do with the nursery?’ she asked.

His hands tightened for a nanosecond on her shoulders before he removed them to hang by his sides. His expression threatened to lock down as usual, but then she saw a tiny fist punching beneath the skin at the edge of his mouth, as if trying to push its way through. A war was going on within him; the effort to override his instinctive response was clearly taking a huge toll. ‘I had it redecorated,’ he said. ‘It’s a spare bedroom now.’

She disguised a quick apprehensive swallow. ‘Can I see it?’

He stepped aside to hold the door open for her. ‘Of course.’

Maya walked down the hall, unable to shake off the feeling of walking back through time. She had been so excited during that first pregnancy.

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