The Baby Who Saved Christmas

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

HEADLONG FLIGHT DIDN’T leave any room for rational thought.

Instead of running upstairs to the safety of the nursery suite, Alice found she had gone in the direction of the first place she’d felt safe in this house.

The conservatory.

The room was dark but there were muted floodlights in the garden that illuminated the swimming pool and filtered in through glass walls to provide a hint of green on the dark shapes of the indoor trees and made the white furniture easy to find. It was the same couch she’d sat on when she had held Jacquot for the first time that Alice chose to curl up on to wait out the shame of the trouble she’d caused.

And the pain of the way Julien had dismissed her.

She’d been remembering her family the last time she’d come in here alone. The way her mother and grandmother had always been able to know if she wasn’t telling the truth. Would they be able to see what felt stupidly like a broken heart right now?

He’s French, her grandmother might have sniffed. What did you expect?

But her mother? Might she have given her comfort because she would understand? Had André sent her away looking like he’d never wanted to see her again when she had already gifted her heart to him? When she had been carrying his baby in her belly?

She had no idea how long she sat there, failing to win a battle with tears of self-pity, but Alice finally pulled herself together.

It was ridiculous to feel like she had a broken heart. This wasn’t a fairy-tale, this house was not a palace and Julien wasn’t any kind of fantasy prince. He’d been forced to live in the same house as her with the rest of the world shut away and, yes, there had been moments where she could convince herself that something amazing was happening between them but he was back in his real life now and she had absolutely no part in it. It had been the promise of being able to do that that had led to him kissing her in the first place.

The worst part of it all was that he’d seen the desire that must have been glowing from her face like a neon sign. He’d been so shocked he hadn’t been able to look away. It wasn’t that he felt the same way at all. He’d been...appalled.

There was no point wallowing in it. It might be as soon as tomorrow that the results of those blood tests came through and that Jacquot would be deemed to be no danger to others. This quarantine would end. Jacquot would be taken into the care of his grandmother and she herself would have to go home and she would never set foot in this house again. The opportunity to find out anything about her father that she couldn’t find printed in a magazine or revealed in a television interview would be lost for ever.

Her heart thumping, Alice got to her feet and went to the room that Julien had taken her to when she had first arrived.

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