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‘We didn’t … We forgot …’ Frantically she calculated dates.
He let loose a single epithet. ‘Dios. Please tell me you’re on the Pill?’ he rasped.
His voice was a choked sound that chilled her.
Reassured with the dates, she nodded, then noticed his pallor. ‘Hey, it’s okay. Even if the Pill doesn’t work it’s the wrong time of the month.’
‘Are you sure?’ he demanded.
Frowning, Sasha laid a hand on his cheek, which had grown cold and clammy. ‘I’m sure. Relax.’
Marco eased away from Sasha, steeling himself against her throaty protest as he left the bed. Pulling on a robe, he went into his study. His laptop was set up on his desk, his folders neatly arranged by his assistant. He bypassed it, threw himself into the leather sofa and scrubbed a hand down his face.
He hadn’t meant to lose it with Sasha like that earlier.
But seeing her come within a whisker of crashing had set him on a knife-edge of fear and rage he hadn’t been able to completely dismiss. Now his loss of control had made him forget his one cardinal rule—contraception. Always.
He hadn’t slipped once in ten years. Until tonight. Thank goodness Sasha was as against accidentally conceiving a child as he was …
Grimly reining in the control that seemed to be slipping from him, he strode to his desk and picked up the top folder. A sliver of guilt rose inside him but he quashed it.
Enough. He’d done what needed to be done. He refused to feel guilty for protecting what was important to him. Nothing mattered except keeping his family safe.
He picked up the phone and called his brother’s doctors. Once he’d been updated on Rafael’s condition, he placed another call.
Fifteen minutes later he slammed down the lid of his laptop and pushed away from the desk, at peace with his decision.
Feeling a sense of rightness, he returned to the bedroom and slid into bed, his need for Sasha overcoming the wish to let her rest. With a soft murmur she wound her supple body around his. The sense of rightness increased, making his head spin.
‘I missed you. Where have you been?’
Another wave of guilt hit him—harder than before. Inhaling the seductive scent of her, he pushed away the disturbing feeling. ‘I needed to take care of something.’ Bending his head, he placed his lips against the smooth skin of her neck. His body stirred, transmitting its persistent message.
‘Um. And have you?’ she murmured.
‘Sí.’ His voice emerged gruffer than he wished. ‘It’s all taken care of.’
CHAPTER TEN
SASHA watched Marco turn the page of his newspaper, a frown creasing his brow before it smoothed out again. Watching him had become something of a not-so-secret pleasure in the last few weeks. On cue, she experienced the slow drag of desire in her belly as her gaze drifted over the sensual curve of his lips, the unshaven rasp of his jaw and the strong column of his throat to the muscled bare torso which she’d caressed to her heart’s content last night and this morning.
As if sensing her gaze, his eyes met hers over the top of the paper. One brow lifted. ‘You want to go back to bed?’
He laughed at her less-than-convincing shake of the head. The remnants of breakfast lay scattered on the table, long forgotten as they basked in the South Korean sun.
‘I didn’t know you could read Korean,’ she said, eager for something to distil the suffocating heat of the desire that was never far from the surface.
Marco smiled and folded away the paper. ‘It’s Japanese. I never quite mastered Korean.’
‘Wow. You’re freely admitting another flaw? Shocking!’
He shrugged. ‘It was down to a choice of which was the most useful.’
She wrinkled her nose. ‘Useful? Do you ever do anything just for pleasure?’
His droll look made her colour rise higher.
‘Besides sex,’ she mumbled.
