Greek Tycoon, Waitress Wife by Julia James

Author:Julia James [James, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Health & Fitness, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Pregnancy & Childbirth, General
ISBN: 9780263205558
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

The bedroom door was opening, and Carrie turned her head incuriously. The nurse returning to her post? But the woman who came into the room was not the nurse. Though she did not want to, automatically Carrie found herself tensing.

Berenice Nicolaides came right up to the bed and stood for a moment, just looking down at Carrie. There was a slight frown on the immaculately made-up face beneath her perfect and expensively coiffed hair.

‘You look different,’ she said. ‘I might not have recognised you.’ Her English was fluent, but the accent Greek, the tone quite deep for a woman. Her features were marked, and Carrie could see the resemblance to her son now. A ‘handsome’ woman, would probably be the right description. No siren. No beauty.

No bimbo.

Carrie looked at her. Two things struck her as curious. The first was that she could look at her—considering how at that nightmare dinner party she had just stared miserably into her plate the whole evening. The second was that the woman was not looking glacial, as she had that evening.

‘I would like to talk to you,’ said Alexeis’s mother.

Berenice Nicolaides glanced around the shaded room. The nurse’s chair was against the wall, and for a moment she looked irritated, as if a maid should be there to position the chair closer to the bed. But there was no maid in the room, so she did it herself, with ill grace. She sat herself down, crossing one leg elegantly over the other.

‘I have an offer to make you,’ she said. Her voice was cool, businesslike. ‘I will not insult us both by prevaricating, or being evasive. My offer is this—I will pay you the sum of five million euros if you will accompany me to a very discreet clinic in Switzerland where your condition will be—dealt with.’

Carrie looked at her. She heard the words—heard them from the place where Alexeis’s mother was, where the rest of the world was. But where she was not. She was somewhere else—somewhere she would not let anyone else come. Somewhere that had a high, impenetrable wall around it. A barrier that would let no feelings in—or out.

Only words.

‘If you wait another few days you might save yourself such a large sum of money. Nature may well perform the service you require without payment.’ Her voice was as unemotional as the other woman’s offer to pay her to terminate an unwanted, unwelcome pregnancy—a personal and social disaster for Alexeis Nicolaides, her son.

‘Nature is unreliable. The clinic will not be. And besides—’ Berenice Nicolaides’s expression changed ‘—I would not like you to leave empty-handed. That would not be fair. There is another reason, too. Alexeis, as you are already aware, is burdened with a sense of responsibility. He will need to be relieved of it.’

‘Knowing I took your money to have an abortion will do that, I take it?’ Carrie’s voice still had no emotion in it.

The arched eyebrows rose. ‘You are surprisingly quick to understand. Alexeis told me you are a waitress.

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