The Greek's Pregnant Lover

Disgusted with the direction of his thoughts, he yanked off his already loosened tie as he strode into the living room. He stopped dead at the sight that greeted him.

Piper was curled on his sofa, under a quilt he had brought back from Greece many years ago. As if she could sense his presence, her eyelids fluttered and then opened.

She gazed up at him drowsily. “Hi.”

“You said you would call.”

“I couldn’t. I had to think.”

“So, you left me hanging for almost a week?”

She flinched at the ice in his voice, but he could not help that. “I decided it wasn’t something we should discuss on the phone but, um…maybe I should have called and told you that.”

“Yes, you should have. I have been worried. I went by your apartment. You did not answer the door.”

“I wasn’t there. I went to my favorite place to think after trying yours and getting nowhere.”

“Where is that?” he demanded.

“The beach.”

have let me

called you, you would have talked me into seeing

Frustrated anger laced his voice. “At the very

her no peace and despite just waking from a nap, she looked like she hadn’t been getting enough sleep. “I was just

“It is hardly that.”

“Close enough.”

sidestep the issue. If I had known you were here, I would have left my office immediately.” He took a deep breath and let it out

he could not see her eyes, and target the guilt he would see there.

“I figured that out.”

and came to him, then tilted her head back so their gazes

he demanded, his

could he help feeling compassion? She

I should have called, no matter how hard it would have been. I kept thinking and thinking, but I couldn’t make sense of anything no matter which

mind off the fact you did not keep your promise to call.” Almost a week ago, but he had already said that and she

nodded. “This situation

together would work better than each trying deal with it on his or her

She looked away again. “I just…I knew you’d want to