Stefanie London - Postcards From New York - A Child Claimed by Gold / A Debt Paid in the Marriage Bed / A Dangerously Sexy Secret

‘All I want is to be able to bring up my child, Nikolai. Do you promise me my ability to do that will never be questioned, even if we are apart?’ She didn’t want to tell him the truth behind her demands, but if it made him realise just how much she wanted this then it would have to be done.

She wanted her child to know who she was, not to think of her as a distant shadow in the background, as her own mother had become. It still hurt that a woman could turn her back so easily on the two children she’d given birth to, but she’d always told herself and Jess that their mother had been sick and didn’t know what she was doing. Now, with her own baby on the way, she seriously doubted this. Her mother just hadn’t wanted either her or Jess.

Nikolai’s dark eyes searched hers but she couldn’t look into them for fear he’d see the pain she felt about her mother and she looked beyond him to the passing city as the boat headed back along the river to the pier they’d left earlier.

‘Why would I ever question that?’ He moved a little closer, as if sensing there was much more to her demand.

She looked back at him, feeling the cooling wind in her face. ‘I have already told you my sister and I were in care as children.’

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