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CHAPTER 011 - I DON’T WANT THIS!
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"I thought I'd join you all for lunch." Lorenzo shrugged, nodding apologetically to a still-gaping Elisa. "May I sit down?" He indicated the sofa was Sarah occupying. "Yeah, if you may." Luke nodded, scowling. "No!" Both Elisa and Sarah yelled at the same time luke agreed. Lorenzo smiled humorlessly before choosing to ignore their vehement rejection and sitting down beside Sarah. Sarah shield as far away from him as she could, but Lorenzo chose to ignore that too. He leaned forward and placed his elbows on his spread thighs, with his large, masculine hands dangling down between his legs. He focused intently on Elisa. "How have you been, Elisa ?" he asked gently, and Sarah could sense Luke bristling. Elisa couldn't stand Lorenzo at all; she hated his coldness toward Sarah . Only Sarah’s edict that Luke and Elisa not interfere in her marriage kept Elisa civil around Lorenzo . Luke had known almost since the beginning that Lorenzo and Sarah’s marriage was troubled, and whi
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"Of course I wouldn't take him from you." Lorenzo shook his head, sending his heart plummeting. "I wouldn't be that cruel. Naturally you'd maintain custody." Sarah shut her eyes to shield her agony from Lorenzo, and Sarah felt her scalding tears seep down her cheeks. "How very... magnanimous of you," she whispered. "To be so desperate for something only to give it up in the end. “You're so much more generous than I gave you credit for. How often would you want to see him?" "I would naturally move back to Italy, so I would probably see him two or three times a year. It is what you want, right? Less contact with me?" Sarah inhaled deeply and her brow furrowed. Two or three times a year? That was all the time Lorenzo was prepared to spend with a child who was his? Sarah opened her eyes and met Lorenzo’s gaze squarely. "Like I said before, you're being quite generous, but it's all moot anyway because I have no intention of having a baby with you!" "You're being very child
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