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‘But dessert…’ one of the waiters said.
‘We can manage.’
Manage.
That was what he would do, Aurora thought. Nico would manage this situation as best he could.
‘I’m sorry to have landed on you,’ Aurora said.
‘I’m glad you called.’
‘Please, Nico, don’t be polite.’
‘Okay,’ he said. ‘I won’t be polite. Are you wearing underwear?’
She gave a shocked laugh, but then her smile faded as she felt his eyes on her.
And then Nico was serious. ‘I am glad that you called.’
‘Truly?’
‘Yes. I just wish that it had been sooner.’
‘And what would you have done?’
‘I’d have done better than a summerhouse in winter.’
‘Please don’t…’ She was starting to cry. ‘I did my best, Nico. I got us into this…’ She looked at him. ‘You think I trapped you.’
‘Did I say that?’
‘Nico, I wasn’t on the Pill.’
‘And I didn’t use a condom.’
‘But you thought I was on the Pill.’
‘Aurora, I am arrogant, yes, but not arrogant enough to expect you to remain on contraception for me because of one night four years ago.’
Oh.
‘If you had actually told me that day that you were ovulating I don’t think I’d have even heard. I was going to have you—’
‘Oh!’ She said it out loud this time.
Actually, she was surprised he knew such a word—but then the witch in her head flew in and reminded her that Nico knew all about female anatomy.
‘We made love and we made a baby,’ Nico said.
‘Yes.’
‘I came back from Silibri early because it stunk without you,’ he told her. ‘Thank goodness I had that last morning with my father, but I flew home early. Marianna said you were at the house, for the balcony…’ He looked right at her. ‘I came in and I knew you were still there. I followed my desire up the stairs and we seduced each other—the way we do and the way we always have. We took each other beyond the edge and, no, I was not thinking of pills, or condoms, or anything other than getting inside you. So, no, you did not trap me.’
‘Thank you,’ she said.
‘And another thing,’ Nico said. ‘My intention is not to lay a finger on you until we have talked this out, however, please go on the Pill—because there will be times, like this current one, where I want you on the floor.’
‘I am on the Pill,’ Aurora said.
