Bride On Demand. Kay Thorpe

‘Why didn’t he know about me?’

      ‘Because I didn’t tell him you’d been born.’

      Jamie digested this in silence for a moment, never taking his eyes from her face. ‘Why didn’t you tell him?’

      ‘Because I believed he wouldn’t want to know.’

      ‘But he found out about me?’

      ‘Yes.’ There was no reason, Regan decided, to go into the way that knowledge had been acquired. ‘And now that he has…’ she swallowed on the hard lump in her throat ‘…he wants to be your daddy and look after you.’

      Alarm leapt in the small face. ‘Instead of you?’

      ‘No, of course not.’ Regan made haste to despatch any such notion. ‘We’ll still be together, as always. It’s just that there’ll be more money to spend, that’s all.’

      ‘We’ve got lots of money already,’ came the loyal response. ‘We don’t need any more. And I don’t want a daddy!’ he added with an insistence that reminded Regan only too forcefully of the very man he was rejecting.