She’d become increasingly quiet since their wedding. It was only tonight, when she’d been her old, sociable self, that he’d realised quite how withdrawn she’d become.

Was he the cause? Had his mother’s prediction already started coming true?

He wanted to reach out to her and find out what troubled her but didn’t know how.

She raised a shoulder—the bare shoulder he’d spent the evening trying not to stare at. It had been an effort of epic proportions that had failed. That one naked limb had acted like a beacon to his eyes. The rest of her had acted as a beacon to his senses.

Holding her hand, feeling her warm, slender body brushing against him...

All the good work he’d done in recent weeks building a distance from her had crumbled.

Theos, he ached for her. Ached to possess her all over again with a burn so deep it was like fighting through treacle fog to remember why he had to keep his distance.

‘Are you going to take Kerstin on?’ she surprised him by asking.

an ideal candidate for his ever-growing empire, having the perfect qualifications and aptitude. Her father was a

tension emanating from Alessandra when he’d been talking to her. He didn’t want to do anything that would make his wife

‘I think you should.’

‘What? Take her on?’

look at him. Her

was too dark to read

father have requested, she will

or so, we can stop zigzagging the world together. Our schedules will thank us for

filling with an acrid taste at the thought of travelling without Alessandra by his side. The acridness turned sweet as he thought of how travelling made her sleep. How many hours had he spent these past few weeks on his jet, taking advantage of her oblivion to study her sleeping form, reminding himself over and over why

sign of nonchalance, a smile playing on her lips. It was too dark to tell if her eyes

our child would be

before our child is old enough

father, Gregor, a very powerful man in the European banking world. To take Kerstin under

As Alessandra had pointed out, Kerstin was perfect. She was highly intelligent, multilingual and already had an excellent grasp of his

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