The Petrelli Heir by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781472001504
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘I SAID are you all right?’

Izzy blinked. This time there were no extenuating circumstances; this was simply unvarnished lust. She dodged Roman’s gaze, denying the feelings, ignoring them in order to stay sane, stay safe.

‘Fine.’ Other than the ripples of hot sensation spreading outwards from a core that lay low in her belly. ‘Will you stop looking at me like I’m some sort of specimen you want to dissect and pick apart?’

‘If you’ll stop undressing me with your eyes.’

Shame washed through her like icy water. Instead of remembering the sex between them, she should be remembering the awful hollow feeling she had felt the morning after. She was never, ever going to feel like that again; she had learnt the hard way.

‘I was not!’

He arched a brow and grinned. ‘My mistake.’

Only it wasn’t; he knew it and so did she.

‘You wouldn’t look so hot either if you’d just travelled on public transport with a small child. I suppose you think it’s easy?’ She slung him a belligerent glare just in case he thought she was canvassing the sympathy vote.

‘I hadn’t thought about it.’ But he was now.

‘You have no idea, do you?’

The mild contempt in her superior little smile would have irritated him had he not realised she was right. He glanced down at the sleeping child. Izzy was the one who had spent the sleepless nights with Lily, which made it doubly frustrating because she was resisting his attempts to make up for that now.

He put the carrier carefully down on the ground. ‘Then tell me,’ he suggested. ‘I want to know.’

His focus had been totally on what he had missed out on, and not how different her life must be as a single mother from how it had been as a single girl. She had once been able to walk into a bar late at night and see someone she liked and now she could not just act on impulse. Maybe this was not such a bad thing. He had always considered himself pretty broad-minded and not a possessive man, but the idea of the mother of his child spending a night with a man, any man, filled him with a violent revulsion.

So far he had been preoccupied with resenting the time he had missed with his daughter and planning for the future; now for the first time he was realising how much her unplanned pregnancy must have changed her life too.

‘I should have sent a car for you. Whoa, easy, let me …’

‘What are you doing?’ she snarled, backing away, dragging the handle of the folded buggy with her as the wheels gouged grooves in the thick gravel before it was removed from her grip.

‘I thought you were going to faint.’ He remained ready to step in because she had definitely swayed.

She narrowed her eyes. ‘I don’t faint.’

Roman controlled his growing irritation with her belligerent independence with difficulty. ‘Fine, you don’t faint,’ he said, sounding bored. ‘But wouldn’t you be more comfortable continuing this conversation indoors, in the warm?’

‘I’m not a child.

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