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Chapter 45She swayed and gripped the door frame tighter. Nausea boiled in her stomach as each and every moment flashed like a movie in fast-forward.Alex’s angry accusation of thievery. His ordering her from their apartment, his life. Her abduction and the months she had spent in hopeless fear,waiting for Alex to answer the ransom demands. Demands he had ignored.Oh God, she was going to be sick.He had left her. Discarded her like a piece of rubbish. The half million dollars, a paltry sum to a man of Alex’s means, was an amount he had been unwilling to part with to ensure her return.Everything had been a lie. He had lied to her nonstop since she had awoken in the hospital. He didn’t love her or want her. He despised her.She hadn’t been worth half a million dollars to him.Pain splintered through her chest as she shattered. As everything she had known as true suddenly turned black. Her heart withered and cracked, falling in pieces around her.He hadn’t tried to save her. The tortu
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Chapter 46AlexAlex paced back and forth at the foot of Maya’s bed while the hotel physician administered the sedative. She was beyond distraught, and the doctor had moved immediately to prevent further upset.As the doctor stood and backed away from the bed, he looked at Alex, a grim expression on his face.Fear tightened Alex’s chest. “Is she all right? Is the baby all right?”The doctor motioned him across the room and away from where Maya now quietly lay. “Her injuries are not physical. If they were, perhaps I would be of use. Her distress is mental. If it is as you said, and she has regained her memory,it is that which has caused her immeasurable pain.”Alex stirred impatiently. “What can be done? She cannot be left as she is. There must be something we can do.” The sight of her pale face and her eyes, so huge with devastation, twisted his gut painfully.“You should return her to your home, to a place that is more familiar. She needs a doctor, not for her physical well-being, b
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Chapter 47Maya.Maya was only vaguely aware of the things going on around her. After that first pass into oblivion, she registered being carried into a car. She heardAlex’s worried voice as he murmured to her, but she closed herself off from him, folding inward.When she next awoke, she knew she was in a bed. As she looked around the room, recognition sparked, and with it, a surge of fresh agony, hot and raw, seared through her body and robbed her of breath.He wouldn’t do this. Surely even he could not be so cruel as to bring her back to the place they’d shared and the place he’d brutally shoved her from.She reached for the tears, expecting them to come, but curiously all she felt was an odd detachment, a void of nothingness coupled with the need to get out of this place.When she sat up, her gaze flickered to a chair by the window occupied by Alex’s sleeping form. He was slouched against the arm, his clothingrumpled and the stubble of over a day’s beard shadowing his jaw.She wa
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Chapter 48AlexAlex woke with a monster catch in his neck and shifted in the too small chair to alleviate his discomfort. He had wanted to spend the night with Maya tucked into his arms, but she had resisted his touch at every turn, becoming sodistraught that he’d had no choice but to retreat.He had taken the doctor’s advice and phoned a therapist as soon as he had returned to the apartment with Maya. The therapist was due to arrive this morning to speak with her. Alex just hoped she would be able to.His gaze moved to the bed, and when he saw it empty, he shot to his feet. He started to bolt from the room, but a glimmer of something on the nightstand caught his eye. When he saw her engagement ring lying there, dread tightenedhis chest. He ran from the room in search of her. As he went from room to room, his panic grew. She wasn’t anywhere to be found.Even as he hurled himself into the elevator, he dug out his cellular phone. As soon as the doors opened in the lobby, he ran out a
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Chapter 49Maya. Maya shivered as she eased down onto the cold stone bench and clutched her arms around her trembling body. She glanced down at her feet but couldn’t summon any rebuke for having gone out in the chill without shoes or a coat. The only thought she’d had was to get away as quickly as possible. She couldn’t face Alex now.Now she knew why she’d been drawn to this place. Her thinking spot, indeed.Just hours before that last night, she’d sat here, afraid of how Alex would react to her pregnancy. She’d been right to be afraid. He didn’t trust her. Hebdidn’t love her. And he had left her to her fate with the kidnappers.She refused to allow the memories to roll back in her mind. They simply hurt too much. At least now she realized why she’d chosen to forget. All those weeks of living in fear as her kidnappers waited for their demands to be met had palednext to the betrayal Alex had handed her when he had refused.How could anyone be so cold? Wouldn’t he have been willing t
MY CONTRACT MARRIAGE Chapter Fifty
Chapter 50 Alex Alex strode into the Imperial Park Hotel, waving off members of the staff as they hastened to greet him. The elevator was being held open for him, and he got in and rode it to the top floor. A few moments later, he walked into the luxury suite usually reserved for VIP guests. His brother met him in the sitting area, and Alex scowled furiously at him. “Why didn’t you bring her back to the apartment?” he demanded. “She became hysterical at the mere mention of it” Theron said. “She was set to run as far and as fast as she could. I had to promise I wouldn’t take her back to the penthouse.” Alex swore and closed his eyes. He brought his hand to his face and pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers in a weary gesture. “She’s about to break,” Theron said quietly. “Bring your therapist here to talk to her. Maybe she can help.” Alex looked sharply at his younger brother. “You seem concerned about her.” “She carries my nephew.” His lips pressed together in a gr
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Alex paced the confines of his New York office as he waited for Roslyn to arrive. He didn’t want to be here. He wanted to be with Maya . Theron had stayed with her, and Alex simmered with impatience. Her condition hadn’t changed. Even when she’d awakened, she’d been distant, unfocused,there but not there. It was as if she’d gone to a place where he couldn’t hurt her anymore.He closed his eyes and tried to focus on the task at hand. When he heardZuri enter, he stiffened. It was all he could do not to rage at her, not to breakbher skinny neck. It took everything he had to smile and act as though nothing was wrong, as though he didn’t loathe the very ground she walked on.“You wanted to see me?” Zuri said breathlessly.“I did,” Alex murmured. He let his gaze run suggestively over her body even as his flesh crawled.Her eyes brightened, and her stance immediately became suggestive.“I’ve only just become aware of the lengths to which you went to try and get my attention,” he said with a
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Maya was dimly aware that she was being carried yet again. It wasn’t Alex . She was intimately familiar with his touch. For a moment she panicked, and then she heard comforting words being spoken in Greek and then in English.“Rest easy, little sister. You are safe.”“Where are we going?” she asked weakly.“Someplace safe,” he soothed. “Alex won’t allow anything to happen to you.”She wanted to protest that Alex wouldn’t do anything for her, but she couldn’t muster the energy. At some point, she heard Alex , and she cursedthe fact that she immediately felt safer and that some of the panic abated.She felt the brush of lips against her forehead and then firm hands tucking her into bed. Fingers stroked through her hair, and warmth enveloped her.“You are safe, . I’ll never allow anyone to hurt you again.”“Don’t call me that,” she cried. “Never again.” But she held to Alex ’s promise even as her heart screamed in protest. He’d lied to her. She couldn’t believe anything he said. And yet
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