Robyn Donald - His Pregnant Bride - Pregnant by the Greek Tycoon / His Pregnant Princess / Pregnant - Father Needed

He dragged his long fingers through his hair. The sheer familiarity of the gesture made her ache.

‘We need to talk.’

She turned her head; he was incredible…really incredible! Did he really think she was going to let him waltz in here and mess up her life for a second time?

‘Did I really ever find your autocratic mannerisms a turn-on?’

She hadn’t realised until he responded in a dry tone that she had voiced her thoughts out loud. ‘I don’t know, did you?’

Subduing a mortified blush, she gave an indifferent shrug. ‘ I don’t need to talk,’ she told him stonily.

‘Then listen.’

Georgie closed her eyes and stuffed her fingers in her ears. Through clenched teeth she began to hum loudly and tunelessly. ‘You still haven’t grown up, then.’

Georgie’s blazing eyes lifted to the contemptuous face of the man who had captured her wrists. ‘ Me? I’m not the one who throws away a relationship as casually as a spoilt brat throws away a toy that he’s got tired of.’

His breath whistled in a startled gasp through his clenched teeth. ‘What did you say?’

‘It roughly translates as get the hell out of here and my life… I hate and despise you! ’ She twisted her hands angrily, but instead of releasing her Angolos jerked her towards him.

The breath whooshed out of her lungs as her body collided with a body that had no give. For one shocked moment she stood there feeling the strong, steady thud of his heart, then she began to struggle. She fought the rising tide of sensual inertia so powerful that it threatened to swamp her as much as the strong hands that imprisoned her. She fought because deep down there was a secret part of her that didn’t want to escape, a part of her that wanted to melt into him.

‘Let me go… How dare…?’

Suddenly she was free.

The brief skirmish had only lasted a matter of seconds, but Georgie was fighting for breath as though she’d just gone five rounds with a contender for the title.

Rubbing one wrist, she glared at him. Angolos had always been lean and hard in a tensile steel sort of way, he still didn’t carry an ounce of spare flesh, but that brief contact had revealed that he had bulked out muscle-wise. The treacherous burst of heat low in her belly filled her with intense shame.

‘I’d like you to leave,’ she told him huskily.

‘When I’ve said what I came to say.’

Georgie gave a frustrated little grunt…Well, that much hadn’t changed; Angolos was still as stubborn and incapable of compromise as ever. ‘Get your lawyer to write mine a letter,’ she suggested. ‘Isn’t that the way it usually works?’

‘You don’t have a lawyer…’

‘And you don’t have a chance in hell of getting me to listen to you.’

He studied her set, stubborn face and stony eyes for a moment before dragging a hand through his already disordered thick dark hair.

‘I need a drink.’

‘There’s a pub around the corner. They’re not fussy about who they serve.’

His eyes narrowed. ‘The Kemp household still represents the best of British hospitality, I see.’

Georgie hardly heard him; the muscle that clenched and unclenched in his cheek was having a strongly hypnotic effect on her. Dressed all in black, he looked sleek and dangerous and off-the-scale sexy!

‘The house and town are the same, but you,’ he added, allowing his frowning gaze to move over her slender figure, ‘look different…’

Careful not to reveal by so much of a flicker of an eyelash what the critical brush of his eyes did to her, Georgie shrugged and stuck her hands in the pockets of her jeans. She was oblivious to the fact the action stretched the material, lovingly revealing the feminine curve of her slim thighs.

‘Designer clothes, you mean?’ She gave a contemptuous smile. ‘They don’t suit my lifestyle and actually they’re not me. They never were.’

When Angolos lifted his eyes to her face his natural warm colouring was a shade deeper. ‘Actually I meant you look harder .’ Despite this grim assertion, it was her softness that was occupying his thoughts.

You carry on believing that, thought Georgie, pushing her hands deeper into her pockets to disguise the fact they were seriously trembling.

‘There was a time when I actually cared what you thought of me…’ The memory of her anxiety to please him made her shake her head in pained distaste.

The irony was, the harder she tried to be what he wanted, the farther apart they seemed to drift. All the expensive clothes in the world had not made her fit in with the wealthy, snooty Constantine clan.

From day one his family, or more specifically his mother, Olympia Constantine, had made no attempt to hide her disapproval…at least not from Georgie. Around Angolos his mother had been more circumspect. Olympia had saved her sly digs and outright hostility for when Angolos hadn’t been around, which had been most of the time. She had never made any secret of the fact she’d wanted Georgie out of their lives.

And in the end they had got what they’d wanted. Georgie released her breath in a long, shuddering sigh and lifted her chin.

‘I’m not the pushover I once was, certainly.’ She was faintly amazed to hear her voice emerge steady and even. ‘I don’t know why you’re here, Angolos, and I don’t want to know.’ She stood to one side and gestured to the open door.

Angolos didn’t move. A muscle along his strong jaw spasmed as he picked up a toy car from the floor. She watched warily as he pushed the toy back and forth along across his palm. ‘He’s my son.’

Georgie’s slender shoulders lifted. ‘ So…? ’

He dropped the toy into an overflowing toy box and lifted a hand to his forehead, rubbing the groove between his dark brows. He continued to look uncharacteristically distracted. ‘I have a son .’

‘You say it as if it’s news, Angolos,’ she mocked. ‘You’ve had a son for the past three years and I didn’t notice you breaking any speed records to see him. Not even a b…birthday card.’ She lowered her eyes quickly as she felt the warmth of the unshed tears that filled them.

‘I thought my lawyers made it clear that if the money I deposited wasn’t sufficient I would—’

Georgie’s head came up, her luminous, liquid golden eyes levelled contemptuously with his. ‘Do you really think I’d touch a penny of your money…?’

Angolos’s lip curled. ‘You expect me to believe that you haven’t touched the money.’

‘I never wanted your money!’ she flared. ‘I wanted…’ She stopped dead, dark colour suffusing her pale cheeks. ‘If I gave a damn what you believe I’d get out the bank statement.’ She had given a damn once, though, and it had hurt her more than she wanted to remember.

‘If you haven’t used the money, how have you supported yourself?’ he demanded suspiciously. ‘Or should I ask who has been supporting you?’

She sucked in an outraged breath through flared nostrils and watched the toy ball he had aimed a kick at bounce off the wall.

If he thought she had time for a social life, let alone a boyfriend, he really didn’t have the first clue about what it took to bring up a child single-handed while holding down a demanding job! But then maybe that was all to the good—she preferred the idea of him thinking she had a wild private life.

‘I’ve been doing what most people do. I’ve been working.’

His brows shot towards his hairline. ‘ Working…you…? ’

‘Yes, me, working. I was training to be a teacher when we met, if you remember.’

‘Yes, but it was hardly your vocation; you gave it up without a second thought.’