Chantelle Shaw by The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess

Author:The Greek Billionaire's Innocent Princess
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-04-26T15:43:25+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE sofa bed was as comfortable as Nikos had promised, but Kitty tossed and turned beneath the sheets for most of the night as she fought the urge to bury her face in the pillows and cry. Nikos was so in control, and he made her feel so stupid. She didn’t even know now why she had made such a fuss about sleeping with him; it was just some deeply ingrained instinct for self-protection that warned her against giving herself to a man who might be her husband, but was a man she knew very little about.

Eventually she fell into a fitful doze and when she woke sunlight was streaming through the blinds. She took her time showering and drying her hair, but she could not put off facing Nikos for ever, and, spurred on by hunger, and the knowledge that she must eat for the baby, she ventured out of her room.

She found him sitting at the breakfast table on the terrace, engrossed in his newspaper. Dressed in pale jeans and a cream shirt that contrasted with his bronzed skin, he was impossibly handsome, and Kitty halted in the living room while she tried to control her desperate awareness of him.

He stood up when she stepped onto the terrace, and pulled out a chair for her. She had steeled herself for a sarcastic enquiry about how she had slept, and she knew from the dark shadows beneath her eyes that he would guess she’d barely slept at all, but to her relief he made no comment about the previous night.

‘There is fruit and yoghurt and fresh rolls, but if you would like something cooked I’ll tell Sotiri,’ he greeted her.

‘This will be fine,’ Kitty mumbled, glancing at the dish of mixed summer berries and the creamy yoghurt, ‘but no coffee, thank you. I haven’t been able to drink it since I fell pregnant.’

‘Have you suffered much from morning sickness?’

‘Not really—I’ve felt nauseous a few times, but unfortunately it hasn’t affected my appetite. I’m already bursting out of most of my clothes.’ She broke off, blushing furiously when Nikos’s gaze hovered on her blouse that was too tight and was gaping over her breasts. ‘No doubt I’ll get a lot bigger yet,’ she muttered dismally as she resisted pouring honey onto her yoghurt.

Nikos’s eyes narrowed at her rueful tone, and he voiced the question that had been gnawing away at him. ‘How do you feel about this baby, Kitty?’

‘I don’t know,’ she replied slowly. ‘To be honest, it all seems to be part of a dream and I keep thinking that one day soon I’ll wake up and find I’m at the palace on Aristo with nothing to think about other than my research work for the museum.’

‘Is that what you wish?’

‘I would be lying if I didn’t say that part of me wishes I was back there,’ she admitted. ‘Aristo was my home for my whole life and it was a wrench to leave and come to somewhere new.

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