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‘Then tell me it’s not true.’ Clasping hold of her wrist, Lukas held it in his grasp.

‘Very well.’ Callie indignantly tried to snatch back her hand, but Lukas held on. ‘I do not have a lover, Lukas.’

‘A boyfriend, then? A partner of some description?’

‘No, none of those things. Now, kindly let me go.’

‘What, then? Tell me. Because I can see it, Calista. I can see it in your eyes.’

Callie hesitated. She could feel the moment closing in on her, weighing down on her with leaden pressure. Suddenly there was no escape.

‘I do not have a lover, Lukas.’ She summoned the words from deep inside her, where the truth had lain dormant for so long. ‘But I do have a child.’

‘A child?’ He dropped her arm as if it were made of molten metal. ‘You have a child?’

‘Yes.’ She watched as the shock that had contorted his handsome features settled into a brutal grimace of stone. ‘I have a four-and-a-half-year-old daughter.’

She paused, sucking in a breath as if it might be her last. This was it.

‘And so, Lukas, do you.’