The Greek's Innocent Virgin by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

“And how is your guest, son?”

Sebastian gripped the phone tightly and sucked in choking air at his mother’s question. The last time he’d seen his guest, she had looked devastated.

He’d spent the last couple of hours trying to get her and last night off his mind, but it hadn’t worked. Urgent company business could not keep his thoughts from her and his mother’s question just served to bring everything to the forefront of his mind with blinding clarity.

His words, her reactions, assumptions that lost their power to convince in the chilled light of reality not overshadowed by gut clenching emotion.

God in Heaven, what have I done?

There was no answer from above, but his mother called his name across the phone line.

“Ne?”

“I asked how Rachel is doing.”

“Not well.”

“You had an argument?” his mother asked, managing to convey both censure and her belief it was his fault with four short words.

“She is just like her mother.”

“You don’t really believe that, do you?”

Things were shifting inside his head, but to admit he had been completely wrong would be to contemplate a hell of his own making. “What are the chances she would be different?”

“You are a fool if you believe this of her.”

To be called a fool by his mother was not a pleasing experience and Sebastian gritted his teeth in frustration. “You are so certain. Tell me why.”

“An hour in her company is enough to show that two people could not be more dissimilar. You have let your prejudice color your judgment.”

He had thought that too, but then he’d convinced himself he was wrong. “Perhaps you have allowed your compassion to color yours.”

His mother’s sigh was long and full of parental disapproval. “She has spent the last several years living completely separate from Andrea. Not only did she insist on living in another country, away from her mother’s influence, but Rachel stopped accepting support funds from Matthias when she graduated from university. If she were like Andrea, wouldn’t she have been in Greece, participating in her mother’s decadent lifestyle? At the very least she would have allowed Matthias to augment her income.”

Cold that had been curling at the edges of his thoughts began to fill his being. “I did not know Matthias had ceased supporting her.”

“But then you changed the subject every time her name was mentioned in the last few years.”

He had wanted her and hearing about her had only exacerbated an ever-increasing ache.

“She lied to me,” he said in a last-ditch effort to hold on to the protection of his assumptions.

“This I do not believe.”

Goaded by the reproach in his mother’s voice, he told her the truth. “Rachel said she was a virgin, but she wasn’t. She was trying to trap me just like Andrea trapped Matthias.”

His mother’s gasp was followed by a moan of true Greek distress. “And how can you be so sure of this?”

Used to his parent’s unquestioning approval, her continued certainty he was in the wrong made him angry. “How do you think?”

A word came out of his mother’s mouth he’d never heard her utter before.

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