Chapter 42

She stared at him uncomprehendingly. ‘What are you talking about?’

‘Just how long have you known about this pregnancy?’

She met the accusation which blazed from his face. ‘For a couple of weeks,’ she admitted.

A strange light entered his eyes. He looked like someone who had been trying to solve a puzzle and had just found the last missing piece stuffed down the back of the sofa. ‘When we were in bed—the morning I got the phone call from Khoshorbhan about Leila—you knew you were pregnant then, didn’t you?’

She shook her head. ‘I didn’t know. I had my suspicions, but I wasn’t sure.’

‘But you didn’t bother to tell me? Even today you kept quiet. You let me come here and …’ She’d let him lose himself in the refuge of her arms. Lulling him into sweet compliance with the erotic promise of her body.

‘We had sex, Theodore!’ she declared brutally. ‘Let’s not make it into something it wasn’t!’

She could see the faint shock which had dilated his eyes, but his reaction was breathing resolve into h