Jo and Theo had no family except for Andreas. Lilly was with him at the moment. But Carrie was worried about the situation, because, as she well knew, Andreas wasn’t a family man; a six-month-old baby wouldn’t fit into his bachelor life! And, besides, by the sounds of things he was still as deeply involved with business as ever. Certainly every time she had visited the island he’d been away overseeing some important deal or other.
So what would become of Lilly, orphaned and alone?
The question had kept Carrie awake at night. And it haunted her days now. In desperation she’d even got Andreas’s number from the solicitor and rung to see if he could shed any more light on the matter.
It had been her first contact with him in over two years. And the conversation had been very strained. Just thinking about it now made her temperature rise. He’d been very offhand with her.
For a few moments they had talked about Lilly and about Theo and Jo. And when Andreas had mentioned his brother’s name there had been a raw note in his voice that had made tears immediately spring into her eyes. But he had cut short her whispered words of sympathy. And then he’d swept on and told her with brutal disregard for her feelings that there was no point in her coming back to Pyrena and that Lilly was none of her business!
The ferry slowed as it approached the harbour, and as the sea breeze died the heat of the day throbbed with an incredible force that almost matched the heat Andreas had stirred up inside her.
He always had been able to rouse extreme reactions within her. When they’d first met, those reactions had been purely passionate—an instinctive response to an extremely attractive man.
But back then she had been young and foolish. She’d learnt her lesson.
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