The Secret Sanchez Heir by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

‘NO OTHER WAY?’ Abigail parroted, shock writ large all over her face. She had gone through a million and one scenarios of what could happen ever since she had told Leandro about Sam, but a marriage proposal hadn’t featured in any of those scenarios.

‘Correct. As I’ve made clear, I’m not going to subject our son to a back-and-forth situation between us.’

‘Leandro, we can’t get married.’ Her voice had gone up a couple of octaves and was bordering on hysterical. She swallowed and breathed deeply, in and out, slowly and evenly, counting to ten, because approaching this situation with ranting was going to settle her firmly on the back foot before their negotiations had even begun. ‘In an ideal world, a child is a cherished addition to the family unit and is blessed with two loving parents, but it’s not an ideal world. Telling me that that’s what we would be providing for Sam if we got married is just...just a fantasy.’

Leandro flushed darkly. He had offered to make the greatest sacrifice he knew for the sake of their child and he was incensed that she could throw his proposal back in his face without bothering to think things through. Buried beneath his anger was also a certain amount of pique. Countless women would have bitten his hand off for the proposal she was self-righteously tossing aside.

‘Since when is it a fantasy to want the best for a child?’

‘It’s not,’ Abigail told him in a long-suffering voice that really got on his nerves. ‘Marriage is just not necessary in this day and age.’ She jumped up and once again began pacing through the gloriously all-white room. Just looking around her was enough to show her how great the differences were between them. They were chalk and cheese, and it was no wonder his sister had been appalled when she had found out about their relationship. When he had turned his back on her, she had been left in his flash penthouse apartment in New York to pack her things and clear off, and she had had the pleasure of listening to his sister rant about her unsuitability for her brother.

‘Leandro needs someone of his own class,’ Cecilia had stormed, while Abigail had packed her bag in frozen silence, too distressed with Leandro’s disappearance really to pay much attention to what Cecilia had been telling her. ‘You’re no good for him. He can’t get involved with a thief, and it’s just a good thing that I had the wit to get involved and rake up that stuff about you or else heaven only knows what might have happened!’

Nothing would have happened, as it turned out. The fact that Leandro had found it so easy to walk away had said it all. Now, here he was proposing marriage, but she was still the same person who was unsuitable for him, the same person he had found it easy to walk away from.

‘I’m willing to let you see Sam whenever you want to,’ she told him.

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