Cathy Williams by The Italian Billionaire's Secret Love-Child (html)

Author:The Italian Billionaire's Secret Love-Child (html) [Love-Child, The Italian Billionaire's Secret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-24T18:38:18+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AND they hadn’t even got around to his fulminating diatribe about the fiancé!

Riccardo glared at the bottle of wine staring reproachfully at him from his gleaming black, granite kitchen counter. One glass for Dutch courage, something he had never needed in his life before, but which he seemed to need now because he was about to see his daughter for the first time.

After her incredulous rejection of his marriage proposal—something he fancied very few women would have turned down without even bothering to give it a second thought—Charlotte had stalked out of his office and he had stayed put, imprisoned by his own pride which had absolutely forbidden him to follow her, beg her to reconsider and listen to the advantages. The obvious advantages.

Four hours later he had phoned and coldly told her that he would respect her ridiculous refusal to listen to common sense, but he’d demanded that she tell Gina about him.

‘Of course I will,’ Charlotte had said, for all the world as though anything else would have been incomprehensible. ‘And you can come and visit with her tomorrow after school. I don’t want to fight you over this, Riccardo.’

‘Very generous,’ he had muttered with heavy sarcasm, but the arrangement had been made and now here he was, as nervous as a kid waiting to be seen by the headmaster. He swept his trench coat from the counter, drank the contents of his wine glass in one long gulp and headed out of the door.

He had a driver on permanent call, but this time he would be taking a black cab. George was as perfect a driver as he could hope to find, which meant that he never asked questions and could be counted on for his discretion, but a secret child? That might have been taking temptation too far, and Riccardo needed to come to terms with the situation himself before opening the door to the inevitable furore of gossip.

On the way, staring out at the dark, bleak and cluttered city streets, he marshalled his wayward thoughts into coherent points. Point one would be elimination of the fiancé. He wasn’t going to share his child with another man and that was just something she would have to accept.

Since when, he wondered, had she become so damned mouthy?

He frowned and thought of her glowering in his office, laughing at his proposal and then refusing to budge! Indeed, walking out!

Well, the fiancé would be a thing of the past if he had to set up camp in her house and supervise her movements like a babysitter!

The taxi drew up outside the house and nerves ripped through him like a knife. He had bought a stuffed toy. A very large one. What else did one buy for a child with whom you were intimately connected and yet didn’t know you from Adam?

He felt utterly foolish and stupidly terrified as he pressed the doorbell and heard it reverberate inside the house.

Charlotte opened the door, and behind her was Gina.

‘What on

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