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“So you shared with a stranger what you should have shared with me,” he slung at her in disgust.

Erin stared at him helplessly, unable to offer any further defence for her decisions. She simply hadn’t realised he would care so much about a baby who was yet to be born, that he would feel so responsible when she had assured him they were having safe sex.”I was going to tell you, Peter,” she said limply, despairing that he would believe anything she said.

“Were you?” His eyes glittered with biting cynicism.”If I hadn’t set up this movie deal and kept my name out of it until we met face-to-face, you could have gone on keeping me in ignorance of my child as long as you liked.”

There was no use denying it. He wasn’t going to accept her word for anything.

“Why did you?” she asked, needing some respite from being the accused, grabbing at the fact that he’d given no explanation of his actions.

“Why did I what?” he snapped, still in a towering rage over what she’d done.

“Set up this movie deal.