For Greek tycoon Xander Anaketos only money talks, and when he breezes back into Claire's life, he wants her back in his bed. But what will he do when he discovers his impoverished ex-mistress is also the loving mother of his child?
“I’ve met someone else. In New York.’
She heard the words. They were flatly spoken, his accent hardly showing. For a strange, dissociated moment she did not understand them.
Then he was talking again.
‘There’s never a pleasant way of doing this, but I wanted you to know how very much I’ve appreciated you over these last months. But it is now…’ Did he hesitate again, just for a fraction of a fraction of a second? She could not tell, was blind and deaf to everything. ‘Over,’ he said, breathing out with a short, decisive breath.”
“Will you excuse me a moment?’ she said. Her eyes drifted to his. He seemed very far away. As far away as a distant star.
She felt for her handbag and walked away from the table. It was the strangest feeling—feeling nothing. That was what was so strange about it. Walking through a fog of nothingness.”
“Outside, on the pavement, the night air should have felt chill. But she did not feel it. She did not feel anything.
She started to walk.”
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The scene outside (pavement) reminded me of Double Standards by JM.. It made me so emotional, I cried. I liked the ending, how the hero explained the reason why he ended their affair.. And what he DID to keep her at the end.. It was ruthless and insensitive of him, but he was desperate. Hehe. 4 stars
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