The Greek's Pregnant Lover

“He’s getting married. They will have children. This is a good place to bring them. The resort will only make it better. Cass likes to travel, but prefers private residence to hotels.”

“That makes sense, considering.”

“Yes.” He tugged her to relax further against his chest. “And you, can you imagine staying here on the occasional holiday?”

She sighed, her head coming to rest against his shoulder. “Too easily. If I owned a property like this, I wouldn’t relegate it to vacation home, though. I couldn’t resist living here.” The buried longing in her voice surprised him. “I don’t know how the previous owners did.”

“How would you run your business from here?”

“I thought daydreams didn’t have to be practical.”

“Indulge me.” He wrapped his arms around her waist, enjoying this moment of relaxed closeness.

She was good for him, which was just the dangerous kind of thinking he needed to avoid before he started spilling secrets again. This was about learning what was going on in her complicated brain, not revealing more of his own thoughts. And he would remember that.

“Living here would be the ultimate indulgence, but in answer to your all too prosaic question, with high-speed Internet, a reliable telephone service and a color fax machine, I could run my business from anywhere.”

“It would require a lot of travel.” Especially if she continued to work full-time.

“I travel a lot now.”

to live here, though. “I forget how much I enjoy the sunshine sometimes, but a few days

those in

Neo and I lived there, we thought

all

of them have

said grudgingly. “But it’s better

weather is perfect.” He and Neo had not left Greece because they wanted to get

are partial

“Which I am.”

I should have relocated to

would not have

might have been better

think so. He maneuvered her so their gazes met, and saw that her azure eyes were troubled. He shook his head. “Are you trying to imply that our

it’s not as if I’m the woman you envisioned as the mother of your future children.” Her voice echoed with

anyway. He had thought of her in that role, before they started having sex. He admired her character and thought she would make an ideal mother and wife,

you would not have

are right.” At least that had

away completely, but not before he saw sadness making her blue

not think you would be

have to be a business transaction between the