The Greek's Pregnant Bride

Chapter 31

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘HAVE YOU EVER tried to find your father?’ Alessandra asked a short while later, her eyes filled with curiosity.

‘What for?’ he dismissed. ‘Why would I want to involve myself with a man who abandoned his wife and child?’

‘I get that,’ she said, pulling a face.

He closed his eyes. ‘Your father is an alcoholic and a gambler. He was incapable of looking after you. He didn’t abandon you. He’s always been a fixture in your life. There’s a difference.’

dumped me on his father before I was a year old. Rocco took care of me from the moment I left hospital. My father wanted nothing to do with me—he still doesn’t. He’s never been there, not for any of the significant events in my life. My first Holy Communion    , my Confirmation, the time I represented Milan in the under tens’ gymnastics,’ she said, ticking the events off on her fingers.

like two peas but from pods grown in very different gardens, Christian realised. They’d both been abandoned by the people who should have been there for them. For good or ill, it had

more alike than he’d

darkened swirl. He’d seen that swirl before, when she’d been pressed against

she had felt unbelievably good in his arms, as if her contours had been shaped especially for

pushing away thoughts of her naked: the way she had wrapped those lithe legs around him and clung to him, as if

of her dress had dipped, exposing the top of her golden cleavage, below which lay breasts that had become plumper since their time

now? Did they still

had to stop. Right now. Imagining them in bed together was what had got him into all this trouble in the first

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