The Blackmail Baby

Author:Penny Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

ALMOST childishly Imogen kept her eyes tightly closed, even though she had been awake for well over ten minutes, knowing already what she would see the moment she opened them.

Outside the bedroom window she could hear a blackbird carolling noisily. Fighting to ignore the sensation of despair in the pit of her stomach, Imogen opened her eyes and stared across her pillow to the one that should have borne the imprint of Dracco’s dark head. But, just like the huge double bed itself, it showed no evidence of Dracco’s presence.

It was five days now since they had returned from London, almost a week, and still nothing had happened; still Dracco had not…they had not…

All right, so he had been away on business for three of those nights, but she had moved into the master suite the evening of their return from the shopping trip filled with trepidation. Dracco had never come anywhere near the room, or her, preferring instead to sleep downstairs on the sofa in his study, apparently because he was in the middle of a very important business deal which necessitated him making and receiving calls from other continents.

‘There was no point in me coming upstairs and disturbing you, not when I knew I’d got these calls coming through,’ he had explained carelessly to her the next day when she had eventually seen him. ‘You weren’t disappointed, I hope?’

Imogen had not known what to reply. And she had told herself that she was only too pleased to hear that he would be going away for a few days.

But in his absence, no doubt because she had had the unfamiliar luxury of time to think about such things, she had found herself questioning just why he had not as yet made any attempt to ensure that she gave him the child he wanted; the child that was, after all, the reason for them being here together.

Yesterday, when he had returned without warning late in the afternoon, she had been convinced that the event she was dreading was imminent, but once again Dracco had left her to sleep alone.

Because he didn’t want her? Because he only wanted the child she could give him? Because in reality the woman he truly wanted was Lisa?

The pristine pillow next to her own began to blur. Wrathfully Imogen told herself that she didn’t care and blinked away the tears. She was not going to cry!

No, instead of wanting to cry she ought to be asking herself why she was being so illogical. After all, by rights she should have been pleased.

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