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"What did he do to the dog?" He finally gritted out, sounding like he was chewing nails."I never knew for sure," she confessed. "Mom said Sheba went to a new family and was happy with them. But I don't know... I always feared that he took her back to the pound." Despite her best intentions, tears of long-remembered pain flooded her eyes and she averted her gaze and tilted her chin in an effort to appear casual......"I couldn't sleep for the longest time afterwards, imagining how confused Sheba must have been and on the really bad nights I pictured them taking her into the vet's surgery to be put down... because even though I loved her, she really wasn't cute, or clever or all that special. If she went back to the pound, I don't think she would have gone to another home.""You mustn't think like that," he admonished."I know. Never mind, it's so far in the past that the wound has healed long ago, not even a scar," his intent gaze told her that he didn't believe a word of it but for
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They got home after midnight and while Aiden proceeded to lock up, Amaya wearily headed for the shower in the upstairs guest bedroom that she was still determined to occupy, despite Aiden forcibly moving her back to the Master Suite every night. She was standing beneath the hot, relaxing spray of the multiple shower heads in the luxurious guest bathroom, her forehead pressed to the cool tiles, when a rush of cold air alerted her to the fact that the frosted glass door to the cubicle had slid open. She turned around with a resigned sigh and watched as Aiden turned to close the shower door behind him, offering her a tantalizing glimpse of the beautiful bottom that she had so admired earlier in the evening, while he'd been chasing a ball up and down Gabe's lawn. He turned back to her and shook his head with a weary sigh."You are, without a doubt, turning into one of the most stubborn people I know, Red," he groaned."I want that divorce, Aiden," she insisted, trying not to drop her eyes
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"Why?" He shook his head slightly in confused frustration."Because everything you do now feels insincere and forced!" She hissed in sudden fury. "Every touch, every apology, every endearment... it's like you brushed up on the 'Amaya Noble User Manual' and learned what makes me tick!""Firstly, it's Amaya de Lucci and secondly, I don't know what the hell you're talking about!" He practically shouted, shaking her slightly."The kisses for one," she itemised."What?""A year and a half of marriage, Aiden and tonight was the first time you've ever kissed me," she pointed out. "You must have realised how much it hurt me to, know that you despised me so much that you couldn't even bring yourself to kiss me.""That's not...""So of course tonight," she interrupted him; not at all interested in whatever it was he had to say. "After making me feel so special by finally doing me the honour of introducing me to your friends, this is when you decide to sweeten the pot with a few of your kisses
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This was it... Amaya braced herself for what she knew was coming."Clause?" She repeated the word faintly and Aiden cleared his throat uncomfortably."Your father..." the waiter swooped in with great flair and began to offload a tray of food onto their table. Aiden muffled a curse beneath his breath, while he waited with barely concealed impatience for the younger man to finish."Will there be anything else?""No!" he barked, keeping his voice low and menacing. The poor man gulped and beat a hasty retreat. Amaya barely registered the interaction between the two men, her horrified gaze pinned onto the gastronomical feast Aiden had ordered. Pastas, pies, fish, meat, vegetables all laid out in front of her revolting senses."Amaya?" Aiden's voice seemed to come from miles away. "What's wrong?""So much food," she said sickly, feeling in danger of losing the precious little she already had in her stomach."I thought we could share," he admitted."I told you I wasn't hungry," she flared w
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Amaya flushed miserably when she remembered how obviously infatuated she had been the first time she had seen Aiden and recognised her own, unwitting role, in this façade. "How's your father?" She asked tightly and he nodded slightly, his face betraying the first hint of emotion since he had started telling the sorry tale. "Content, now that he's home," his voice was absolutely racked with the pain he was trying so desperately to disguise. "And your family knows about this 'deal' you made for the land?" She asked her own voice high with tension. "Yes." "No wonder they never expressed any desire to meet me, or made any overtures of friendship towards me," she said, half to herself and he made a muffled sound and moved a hand towards her face. She flinched away from his reach and his hand dropped halfway between them. "I'm sorry about your father," she said tonelessly. "I see now how impossible your situation must have been." "Even so... I could have treated you less..." he beg
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"What are you doing here?" Amaya paused on the threshold to the kitchen and stared at the big man who stood in front of the open refrigerator wearing only baggy sweatpants, without shoes or a shirt, he turned around slowly to meet her eyes and she swallowed past the huge lump in her suddenly dry throat, God he was so much more beautiful than she remembered. She, however, felt unattractive and sloppy in the Sylvester the Cat silk shortie pyjamas she was wearing. She knew that she had a sleep crease down the side of her face and her hair looked like a bird's nest. "I live here," he replied casually, one hand grasping a carton of orange juice and the other lazily rubbing back and forth over the rippled contours of his abdomen. Her fascinated gaze fell to that hand and she imagined her own hand replacing his, she shook herself slightly to rid herself of the erotic image and focused on her outrage at seeing him so casually standing in the kitchen. "You're usually at work by this time,"
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"You stay in here with Rhys," he murmured softly. "I don't want you getting upset by anything Lisa and I may have to say to each other." Before she could utter another word of protest he was gone. Amaya got up nervously, holding the baby to her chest. Much as she strained and strained she could not hear a single sound from the direction of the kitchen and she slowly began to move toward the kitchen as well. She was just outside the slightly ajar door when the sounds of their quiet voices finally reached her."But I don't understand why?" Lisa was asking, sounding baffled but, strangely enough, not too upset. "I still have at least a year within which to finish the loan, it's a substantial amount of money, so I don't see why you would do this?" Amaya bit her lip, wanting to intervene but not sure how anything she could do or say would persuade Aiden to change his mind, she felt helpless and furious and strangely hurt that he would carry out his threat anyway."It's the right thing to
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"Two hours... three times a week," she found herself stipulating against her better judgement. Still, enforcing some kind of restriction on his request made her feel like she had some measure of control over the way things were going, he nodded eagerly."Name the days," he invited and she nibbled at the lower lip, giving it some serious thought."Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays," she deliberately chose his busiest office days, the days he often trudged home much later than usual, hoping that it would force him to cancel a lot of the time, his sharp gaze told her he knew exactly why she had chosen those days but he grinned suddenly and nodded."Fine with me," he acquiesced and she sat back feeling like she'd been manipulated somehow. Rhys had fallen asleep and Lisa reached out to take him from Amaya."I'll just put this little one to bed," the other woman said quietly and Theresa nodded numbly, she felt completely drained and looked it too, Aiden sat down on the sofa and leaned toward
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