The Proud Wife by Kate Walker - The Proud Wife

Author:Kate Walker - The Proud Wife [Walker, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373528103
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Amazon: B004OVF1V4
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Goodreads: 10113284
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘THIS talking thing…’

Marina forced her voice into as casual a tone as she could manage and made herself stroll over to the window as she spoke, praying that her unsteady legs would hold her. Once safely across the room, she could at least rest a hand against the wall for support and focus her eyes on the view outside, the wider terrace and the valley beyond, and avoid having to look into Pietro’s watching face and see the sharp observation in his eyes.

She needed to get the conversation onto safer ground. Ground that would mean she could stick to her original plan of getting out of here and home again as fast as she could. With every second that passed she was letting him more and more into the heart that she had vowed would be armoured against him this time. With every beat of that heart he was breaching her defences, finding chinks in that armour. And that was far, far too dangerous to be allowed to continue.

‘Discussing terms. Don’t you think we’d better get on with it? After all, I do have a plane to catch if I’m to get home. And I wouldn’t want to miss my flight.’

‘You don’t have a flight to miss,’ Pietro reminded her dryly from behind her in the room. ‘The jet is mine and you can travel whenever you want.’

Whenever he wanted was the truth, Marina reflected bitterly. He gave the orders and the pilot would obey them. Which meant that she was practically a prisoner until Pietro decided she could go.

‘All the same, I don’t think there’s really anything to discuss.’

‘Not about the divorce, perhaps, but our marriage is a very different matter. But I think that perhaps it is time that we ate.’

‘Ate?’ Marina knew that her disbelief rang in her voice. They were talking about the break-up of their marriage and he wanted to think about food?

‘It is well after one.’ Pietro had come to stand behind her. She could almost feel the heat of his body reaching out to enclose her, the scent of his skin setting sensitive nerves jangling in uncontrolled response. ‘And I for one am ravenous. I am sure that you must be too.’

‘I…’ Marina began, but even as she spoke her stomach growled sharply, revealing the denial she had been about to make as a lie. The soft sound of Pietro’s laughter behind her had her whirling round to face him, regretting it as soon as she saw the way amusement softened his hard face, putting a new light in the pale depths of his eyes.

‘Have you eaten at all today?’ he asked, jolting her with the revelation as to how well he knew the way her appetite deserted her when she was apprehensive. ‘How about it, hmm, Marina?’ he went on, not needing her answer. ‘Some time out—no talk of divorce. I reckon you need it.’

The way he touched one finger to her cheek, smoothing the traces left by the storm of weeping, told her without words just what she looked like and why he had come to this decision.

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