The Italian's Wife by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Getting out of bed the next morning was something of a challenge for Holly and she was pretty much shell-shocked by the amount of raw energy Rio had and his ability to spring out of bed as though he had had a full eight hours’ sleep.

Yet the urgency with which she longed to hold Timothy in her arms again would have sent her to the airport at dawn, had that been an option. As Rio had promised, her cases had been brought down to the Priory. She dressed at speed but had to sit through a long breakfast while Rio behaved as though they had all the time in the world.

Her baby was not his baby, Holly reminded herself. They were only having one night away from Timothy, which was very, very reasonable of him. How many blokes wanted to drag a nanny and a baby off on their honeymoon? But he had not even mentioned the option of leaving Timothy behind.

At the airport, the minute Timothy laid anxious eyes on his mother he went frantic, waving his arms and legs in excitement and relief. Sarah confided that Holly’s son had had a rather unsettled night. Holly’s eyes stung with tears and she got Timothy out of his seat restraint so fast there might have been a fire alarm howling. Clasping his warm, cuddly little body to her, she hugged him tight, only becoming conscious of her husband’s scrutiny some minutes later.

Rio looked grim. ‘Don’t you ever let me do that to you again,’ he breathed in a driven undertone of reproof.

Holly turned pale. ‘Do…what?’

‘Timothy spent the night fretting for you and you couldn’t get here fast enough this morning because you missed him so much,’ he spelt out flatly. ‘I didn’t know I was doing that to you. Why didn’t you say something?’

Too many frank words hovered on her lips. Timothy was not his son and there had to be limits to even his tolerance at this stage of their marriage, she thought fearfully. The very last thing she wanted was to turn him off with the downside of parenting. He was used to complete freedom of choice and he was not used to the restrictions of being with a woman with a child either.

‘It was only one night. I just didn’t want to spoil things—’

‘You just did,’ Rio drawled ruefully. ‘Sarah told me he was inconsolable and she called the doctor out to check him just in case there was something else wrong. Timothy isn’t secure enough to do without you for very long.’

Holly was ashamed of that truth.

‘But I couldn’t have done without you last night either, bella mia.’ Rio slanted her a sudden flashing smile of forgiveness that turned her heart over inside her tight chest. ‘Maybe we’re going to have to work out some way of dividing you in two.’

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