The Boss's Valentine by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-05-31T14:40:37.312000+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AT THAT moment, Poppy wanted to curl up in a ball like a toddler and cry her heart out, for what Santino had just revealed shed a very different light on what had motivated his visit.

Since when had she got so vain that she believed Santino Aragone was so bereft of females willing to share his bed that he had sought her out in Wales? The idea was laughable, ridiculous! Now she was remembering his tension when he'd first arrived. Had she precipitated that kiss? Had that been her fault once again? Or just one of those crazy mishaps that occurred when people were all wound up and not really knowing how to react or what to say?

Well, it scarcely mattered now, Poppy conceded painfully. Santino had come to find her and speak to her for a very good reason, and indeed the fact that he had made the effort told her much more about his strength of character than anything else. He had been worried that he might have got her pregnant. That was the only reason he had taken the trouble to seek her out again. Most men, particularly one who had just asked or had been about to ask another woman to marry him, would have done nothing and just hoped for the best. But Santino had not taken the easy way out.

'The night of the party...' Santino caught and held her swift upward glance '...we had both been drinking. I have never been so reckless, but then I don't have a history of that kind of behaviour and I know that you had no history at all.'

Feverish colour flared in Poppy's tense face. She was still in shock at her own naivety, her own foolish, pitiful assumptions about why he had come to see her. It took enormous willpower for her to confront the more serious issue. Might she have conceived that night? A belated rethink on what might have caused her recent bouts of nauseous disinterest in food froze Poppy to the spot. And what about the little dizzy turns she had written off as being the results of not eating or sleeping well? Was it possible that she was pregnant? She had never bothered to keep track of her own cycle. How long had it been since the party? A couple of weeks, more? Her brain was in turmoil, refusing to function. When had she last..? She couldn't remember. It seemed like a long time ago. Santino had just delivered what had to be the ultimate male put-down. He had come to tell her she might be pregnant!

Poppy shifted her head in a dazed motion. 'I really don't know yet if I'm...you know…I don't know...er...either way.'

Santino took a slight step forward. She looked so much like a terrified teenager. She couldn't even find the words to talk about conception. He wanted to close his arms round her, drive out the panic and uncertainty clouding her eyes, tell her that she had nothing to worry about and that he would look after her.

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