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A smile tugged at one corner of his mouth,
but his eyes were calm.
ОглавлениеAll at once she felt light-headed. She couldn’t look away from him.
Was it possible this stiff, unfriendly man had a glimmer of understanding about how she felt?
No, not possible. He planned to send his baby daughter—his own child—thousands of miles across the sea to Scotland. What kind of man would do that?
Still, he had kept her secret. And he hadn’t objectedwell, not too strongly, at least—when she’d spoken up about sending his child away.
Absentmindedly, Erika pressed new patterns into her mounded potatoes while she tried to think about the man who faced her across the table. Dr. Jonathan Callender held her future in the palm of his smooth, aristocratic hand. She had to try to understand him.
More than that, she had to please him.!
