The English Lord's Secret Son by Margaret Way

Author:Margaret Way [Way, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-21T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

HE LET HER IN. Fury was burning like a slow fuse. When it hit the target it would burst into a conflagration.

His target was her. Yet she threw her arms extravagantly into the air as if she didn’t have a care in the world

It was the signal for him to turn on her, his body so taut Cate was made fully aware of the power in him. “I’ve never known anyone like you,” he said, in a hard, unforgiving voice.

“So you used to say.” Her comment was foolishly facetious, adding fuel to the fire.

“Don’t make me angrier than I already am,” he warned. “Your mother rang you, of course?”

“My adopted mother,” Cate found herself saying, taking an armchair. “She’s a jolly old Radclyffe, you know. You’re related.”

“That jolly old Radclyffe who just happened to have been born at Radclyffe Hall washed her hands of her own family. She’s your real mother, your biological mother. She had to have a reason for running off to Australia. Pregnant no doubt, which doesn’t make sense as she was a married woman.”

“Stella had her reasons. She did adopt me. I have the papers.”

He stared at her as though convinced she was a pathological liar. “I don’t believe you.”

Her own temper flared. “Harsh words aren’t they? Especially coming from someone like you.”

“Is that the best you can do?” he exclaimed, dropping into the chair opposite her. Even then his eyes were involuntarily drinking her in, he thought in disgust. “Your boy, Jules, is my son.”

“What if I swear he isn’t?’

“You could swear like the worst inmate in your worst jail. Jules is my son. You were pregnant when you left England.”

“I wasn’t.”

He ignored that, his eyes ablaze.

“Okay, I was,” she admitted. It would be too easy for him to prove paternity. That was if he wanted to. Her only hope was he would simply go away. “I wasn’t really sure until a couple of months later. I should tell you it came as a huge shock. When the doctor told me I screamed so loud it’s a wonder you didn’t hear me deep in the Cotswolds.”

He bent forward as though he couldn’t bear to look at her. “This is it, is it?” he asked with contempt. “You’re going to confront the gravest matter with your silly jokes.”

“No joke, I assure you,” she said so sharply he lifted his dark head. “Giving birth is no fun.”

“God, Catrina,” he breathed. “Have you even for a moment regretted not letting me know? I have rights. Have you forgotten about that, about common decency? I would have done everything in my power to help you.”

She lit up with anger. “How exactly? Have money put into my bank account?”

His black brows knitted. “I would have come on the first plane.”

She turned her head away. “That’s as big a lie as it gets. You cut me out of your life, Ashe. You and your horrible mother.”

That got to him. Horrible mother? He felt like shaking her. “What does my mother have to answer for?” he rasped.

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