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And all he could think of was going to her.
“When?” he asked.
“This morning. She was in an accident. She has been living in a village in the north of England.”
He asked the question he feared the answer to most. “Is she going to live?”
“It is not certain.” He felt that like a blow. “She’s unconscious.”
He was moving already. “Get the helicopter ready. We are going to England.” He had to see her. He had to go to her.
He would not touch her, not again.
But he had to go to her.
“Yes,signore. But...there is one more thing.”
“What?”
“She’s pregnant.”
The words rang in his ears like a gong. “Pregnant?”
“Yes.”
She hadn’t lost the baby.
It had been eight months since he’d seen her. She could have met any number of men in the time since then. Gotten pregnant in the time since she had lost the child she had carried with him.
But he could not ignore the feeling that raced through his veins when he heard the word. Something primal. Something like the beat of a drum that surpassed thought and reached down to the very heart of him.
To a place that defied reason and logic.
His.
That child was his.
All was not lost.
He had not broken this.
And this was his second chance. One he did not deserve, and perhaps...
Perhaps one he should not claim.
He had been more monster than man that night.
But she was unconscious in a hospital, and she was carrying his child.
And monster or man, it mattered not.
She was his.
The man spoke in hushed, apologetic tones. “They do not know if the child will live, either.”
If he hadn’t sent her away she would not be hurt.
If he hadn’t sent her away, the child would be alive.
