Chapter 46

Alejandro came to a halt ten feet away. His brilliant dark eyes roved over her in a hungry, all-encompassing appraisal, but there was a combative edge to his stance. ‘I’m not leaving without you,’ he intoned with cool resolve, ‘but first you have to listen to what I need to say.’

Her mood had taken wings at that first declaration; however, she had too much pride to show the fact. ‘You didn’t have much to say when I left Miami last week.’

‘I thought I deserved it. I was ashamed. I didn’t know what to say to you.’

Her worried eyes brightened.

Alejandro looked unusually pensive. ‘Adrian made a fool of me and who likes to admit that? I knew next to nothing about my mother. I only had a few memories.

My enquiries met a brick wall and then I was invited to meet Adrian and fill in the blanks.’

‘So, of course, you went.’

‘I took the bait. I was so arrogant, so sure I was incorruptible, but I was wrong,’ Alejandro admitted stonily and quietly. ‘The old man reeled me in like a fish. He wound me