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‘If you don’t mind, I’d rather go somewhere…a little more private.’

‘I don’t think so,’ he said softly. ‘You’ve already had more than enough concessions. You’ve got your opportunity—which is precisely two minutes—to tell me what all this damned mystery is about.’ His mouth hardened. ‘And it had better be good.’

Her voice was trembling, but somehow she got the words out. ‘Our meeting was very different from most you must encounter, Your Majesty—or at least I’m assuming it was. It was back in the summer, nearly two years ago—in England, at a party during a tour of the Zaffirinthos marbles. In fact we did more than meet. Much more. As it happens we had a short affair, and as a consequence…’ She saw the disbelief and the anger which was beginning to blaze from his amber eyes. ‘As a consequence I…I have a little son. Or rather we have a son. What I should say is…you have a son, Your Majesty.’