He had known then that Callie was pregnant, had, according to Callie, been absolutely delighted at the news. Seven months ago, Damon had gone over to Greece on business. Neither brother had any right to such an acknowledgment, she told herself.Īll of a sudden she was reliving the past again, hugging her bitterness to her like a warm blanket to ward off the freezing chill of Alex’s presence in the house. That totally bloody man! Sarah banged about the kitchen, furious that Alex Terzakis was actually holding Callie’s child in his arms! She refused to recognise the bond of blood between them. ‘I will remain here with Nikos until you return.’ ‘If you put him down, I’ll go and heat his bottle.’ ‘In my home, he would have instant attention every hour of the day,’ he informed her. How often do you leave him to cry?’įury coursed through her. ‘Let me take him,’ she said, reaching out instinctively for him, eager to proffer all the comfort that any baby could possibly require.Īlex cast her a coldly amused glance.
Sarah’s heart clenched at the mere sight of him. Her nephew was howling at the top of his lungs, his adorable little face scarlet with misery. With a stifled sound of raw impatience at the slowness of her response, Alex strode out of the room and up the stairs, but he hung back for a split-second to breathe in a tone of forbidding censure, ‘A baby should never be left to cry.’ĪLEX had already lifted Nicky by the time Sarah reached the bedroom. ‘Nikos?’ Blinking in confusion, Sarah had to dredge herself out of the strange spell she had fallen under for a few dismaying seconds. ‘Nikos is crying,’ he informed her flatly, as though that in itself were an offence. And then he turned his head away, tautening, and strode over to the door. Something deep in the pit of her stomach tightened almost painfully. Me reason the full onslaught of that disturbingly intent dark stare made her breath catch in her throat. ‘I could handle you with one hand tied behind my back.but you wouldn’t like my methods.’ Hooded dark eyes regarded her almost slumbrously. ‘What you cannot handle is opposition from a mere female.’Ī pin-dropping silence stretched. ‘Oh, I expect you’re an absolute pussycat as long as everybody around you is bowing and scraping and you’re getting your own way.’ She rose to her feet, hoping he was on his way out. ‘You know nothing of my temper!’ he intoned, incensed.
They can test your patience to the utmost.’ ‘You appear to have little control over it,’ she murmured. ‘My temper?’ he repeated with a stark flash of grinding white teeth. Did You Know One in Five Young Adults in America Use Their Smartphones During Sex?
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