The Price of a Bride by Michelle Reid

Author:Michelle Reid [Reid, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-05-19T23:40:46+00:00

'I am not aware of asking your permission,' she replied, as cold as ice and shaking so badly her legs could barely support her.

'My men will detain you the moment you approach the gates of the villa.'

She was at the top of the landing now, her hand clutching the banister, so she felt reasonably safe in spinning to face him without risking tumbling down those stairs in another silly faint.

He was standing several feet away, but was eyeing her calculatingly, as if he was wondering what she would do if he made another dive for her.

'Are you saying they will physically stop me?' she demanded.

'No,' he conceded, 'but I certainly will. Come away from the edge of those stairs,' he commanded tersely. 'Your face tells me you are struggling to stay upright.'

'And your face tells me you have no idea whatsoever of what it is like to love someone more than you love yourself.'

'Are you talking about your sister?' he countered. If anything, she went even paler. 'Yes,' she confirmed. 'Suzanna needs me. I am the only m-mother she has known all her life, and she has a right to expect me to come to her when she's hurting.'

'Go to her without my permission and you break your contract with me.'

Just like that. She stood there and stared at him. Oh, so clever, she was thinking bitterly. He was calling her bluff. He was reminding her of the one tiny clause she had shown no interest in among all those other clauses he had thrust upon her in that contract—the clause that stated she not leave Greece without his permission while carrying his child or she forfeited custody of the child.

At the time of signing she had seen no reason why she should want to leave Greece until this ordeal was over.

Her heart gave a painful thump, her stomach muscles coiling in sickening understanding. It was time to choose— Suzanna or the baby growing inside her. A baby she loved already and would go on loving far more than this cruel man would ever love it.

Could she do that to her baby—forfeit all control over his little life to this man?

The rest didn't matter. The rest would happen, no matter what she did now. She was putting nothing else at risk but her baby's future.

My God, she thought bleakly, why does fate like to test me like this? Her eyes closed, her throat moving in a constricted swallow. As she hovered there, at the top of those polished stairs, she saw Suzanna's wan little face, looking up at her.

Suzanna, with the same solemn green eyes as her own, with the same copper-red hair as her own and with the naturally vibrant personality that went with green eyes and red hair crushed out of her, just as it had been crushed out of Mia.

And, yes, she accepted, with an ache inside that almost sent her doubling up in agony, that she could forfeit this baby for Suzanna. She could do it

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