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“I will be a better man from now on. Everything is going to be different now, petal. I swear to you. I will do whatever you say, anything to make you happy, anything at all…”Sylvia stared out wearily at the passing scenery as they approached the eastern edge of San Francisco. For the last hour, Arnold had been prattling on about forgiveness and love. She didn’t think he knew what the hell he was talking about.But then, neither did she, Sylvia thought bitterly. She thought of the stark, anguished look on Xavier’s face when he’d said, “I will not try to see you again,” and it was all she could do to keep from crying.So maybe she did finally know what love was after all. Pain.She blinked quickly, staring out at the rain as they zoomed west on the highway.“I was so selfish to insist on having our wedding in Sweden. I should have realized how important it was to you to be married in your own hometown. I swear to you, petal, this time we’ll do it differently…”“Just take me home,” she
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“WE’RE still running tests, Mr. Regulusi, but we’re optimistic.”Xavier sagged in relief against the white concrete wall of the medical clinic. “Thank God.”“We’ll keep you updated.” The doctor looked at him with concern. “But you should get some rest. Before we have to check you in here as well.”“I’m fine.”The doctor clapped him on the shoulder encouragingly. “Don’t worry. She’s young and strong. Her chances are excellent for a full recovery.”After he’d left, Xavier closed his eyes, feeling the fresh drizzle of rain on his face. His sister was safe. Laila was now receiving the best medical care possible. For the first time in a year, he did not have that driving fear inside him, the fear that he might fail her, the fear that she might die after he’d promised to always look out for her.He should have been overcome with relief and joy. And yet he found himself still hunched over with grief. He looked up to see a blond woman coming out of the mist in the parking lot.“Sylvia,” he wh
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“Get in there!”Cursing, Arnold shoved her into the old cabin before he slammed the door behind them. Sylvia backed away, still glaring at him, rubbing her half-frozen wrists that he’d bruised with his sinewy grip.They’d walked for three hours in the frozen rain, up the snowy, rutted dirt road on foot after Arnold’s Ferrari had slid on a patch of ice and blown a tire. Her black dress and thin black coat couldn’t hold up against these wintry conditions. Her black leather pumps were soaked through, her feet like ice, and she’d almost forgotten what it was like to be warm. She didn’t know if she would ever feel warm again.But still, when Sylvia had seen the cabin in the clearing, she’d tried to run away. She’d turned blindly back toward the woods to take her chances in the frozen mountains. But Arnold had had other ideas. Now, he blocked the door, locking it behind him.“What is this place?” she choked out, huddling near the cold fireplace.“Laila’s great-grandfather built it.” He look
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Two months later, Sylvia stepped out of the white clapboard chapel into the spring sunshine, still gripping her new husband’s hand.“It stopped raining,” Xavier said in amazement, looking up at the fluffy clouds in the blue sky. “Is that the sun? Finally, the day is a lot better and more beautiful.”Was he implying that his new home in northern California wasn’t exactly the sunniest place in the world? She grinned at him, her heart full of love. “I wouldn’t know. Every day seems sunny to me,” she said over the lump in her throat, “as long as I’m with you.”His dark eyes caressed her. Lifting her left hand to his lips, he gently kissed her fingers, and her simple gold wedding ring.Family and friends followed them outside, cheering and throwing flower petals as Sylvia and Xavier headed for the car waiting to take them to the airport. They had no time to attend their own wedding reception; they barely had time for their honeymoon. Resting her hand on his arm, Sylvia looked at her incred
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Book TwoNote: This is a spin off of the last story which ended in chapter Forty-one. They are completely different stories merged together because both stories are short. I tried to expand but that would be adding meaningful details to both stories. I hope you enjoy. ‘Who is the father of your baby, Sylvia?’Holding her six-month-old baby on her hip, Sylvia Browne had been smiling with pride and pleasure across her family’s two-hundred-year-old farmhouse, lit with swaying lights and filled with neighbors and friends for her sister’s evening wedding reception. Now, pushing up her black-rimmed glasses, Sylvia faced her younger sister with a sinking feeling in her heart.Who is the father of your baby?People rarely asked that question anymore, since Sylvia always refused to answer. She’d started to hope the scandal might be over.‘Will you ever tell?’ Becky’s face was unhappy beneath her veil. At nineteen, her sister was an idealistic new bride with romantic dreams of right and wrong.
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She shivered at the sound of her name on his lips. It didn’t seem right that he could be here, in her family’s living room, surrounded by friends and family eating potluck.At thirty-eight, Xavier Regulus owned a vast international conglomerate that bought and shipped steel and timber across the world. His life was filled with one passionate, single-minded pursuit after another. Business. Adrenaline-tinged sports. Beautiful women. Sylvia’s lips turned downward. Beautiful women most of all.So what was he doing here? What could he possibly have come for unless…unless…Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her mother disappearing down the hall with her baby.Trying to stop her hands from shaking, Sylvia folded her arms around the waist of her hand-sewn bridesmaid’s dress. So Xavier had come to Greenhill Farm. It didn’t exactly require a crack team unit to find her here. Brownes had lived here for two hundred years. It didn’t mean he knew about Robby. It didn’t. He couldn’t.Could he?Xav
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He looked around the room again, at the paper plates with the potluck dinner, at her homemade gown, clearly not believing her. He set his jaw. ‘I’m just surprised your father couldn’t do better for Becky. Even if money is tight.’Sylvia folded her arms, feeling ice in her heart. ‘He couldn’t,’ she whispered. ‘My father died four months ago.’She heard Xavier’s intake of breath. ‘What?’‘He had a heart attack during harvest. We didn’t find him on his tractor until later. When he didn’t come home for dinner.’‘Oh, Sylvia.’ Xavier took her hand in his own. ‘I’m sorry.’She felt his sympathy, felt his concern. And she felt the rough warmth of his palm against her own—the touch she’d craved for the past year and all the five years before. Her fingers curled over his as longing blistered her soul.With an intake of breath she ripped her hand away.‘Thank you,’ she said, blinking back tears. She’d thought she was done grieving for her father, but she’d spent most of the day with a lump in he
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His dark eyes glittered in the flickering firelight. ‘Every other woman has been a pale shadow of you in every way.’If her heart had been fluttering before, now it was frantically rattling against her ribs. Had she been wrong to leave him, fifteen months ago? Had she been wrong to keep Robby a secret? What if Xavier’s feelings had changed, and all this time he’d cared for her? What if—He leaned forward as his lips curved into a smile. ‘I need you to come work for me.’Sylvia’s heart stopped, then resumed a slow, sickly beat.Of course. Of course that was all he would want. He’d likely forgotten their one-night affair long ago, while she would remember it forever—in her passionate dreams, in the eyes of their son. Sylvia stared up at Xavier’s dark, brutally handsome face. She saw the tension of his jawline, the taut muscles of his folded arms beneath his suit jacket.‘You must want it badly,’ she said slowly.He gave her a tight smile. ‘I do.’Out of the corner of her eye, she saw he
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