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His Convenient Wife. Diana Hamilton
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isbn 9781472030733
Автор произведения Diana Hamilton
Жанр Современная зарубежная литература
Издательство HarperCollins
Glacially, she held his darkly frowning eyes and intoned coldly, ‘Since you haven’t bothered to come and see what I’ve been “doing to myself”,’ she parodied his condemnatory tone, ‘I’ll tell you. Grieving,’ she stressed tightly and inwardly flinched as lines of pain bracketed his stern mouth as her lashing remarks hit home.
‘For our baby,’ Aldo conceded with a softness that made her heart stand still. He took a step towards her. Cat retreated by a few rapid paces. If he belatedly remembered his abandoned husbandly role and tried to fold her in his arms to comfort her she would, quite simply, go to pieces and embarrass herself, and him, by blurting out all the sources of her present misery.
Turning back to the dressing table, she made a pretence of checking her appearance in the gilded mirror, replying, ‘What else?’
She could have added, For the death of our marriage, for the loss of all hope that you’ll ever learn to love me, but held her tongue because, to be fair to him, love hadn’t been part of the bargain, just silly wishful thinking on her part.
But a mistress hadn’t been part of the bargain either, she reflected trenchantly, and asked him brittly, ‘Shall we go down? Had you let me know to expect you I’d have been waiting to greet you and your companion.’ She swung towards the door, aware of his dark eyes boring into her back. ‘What have you done with her, by the way?’
Aldo caught up with her as she opened the door, a lean, tanned hand snaking out to fasten disconcertingly on her shoulder. Desperately, Cat tried to control her weak body’s electric reaction to his touch, to the effect of those bitter-chocolate eyes scorching into her own.
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