Pregnancy Of Passion

‘l’m also not in danger. We’ve hired a top-notch auctioneer and two of your operatives will be responsible for the crown jewels’ display. My role will be a background one in every way. If anything, di Adamo will be in the limelight, not me.”

Salvatore just looked at her his face set in granite-hard contours.

She rolled her eyes. ‘Fine. 1‘11 give you the list. I don’t even know why I bothered arguing.”

Salvatore had given her complete reign regarding the auction plans but he had been intractable on the issue of her security from day one.

‘ls Adamo Jewelers ready for business again?”

‘Si. Your boss is happy with his new security.”

‘l’m sure he is.” She’d spoken to di Adamo, but their conversation had centered on the upcoming auction.

The old man was very excited about the influx of capital their fee for hosting the auction would give the store.

She ticked an item off her list and then looked up again.

‘Salvatore?”

‘Yes’

Milan is too far away for me to commute to work.”

His expression turned wary. ‘This is true.”

‘I don’t like leaving my boss in the lurch. He’s depended a lot on me over the past few years. It would break my heart if he lost the store after all this because he didn’t have the manpower to run it.”

She didn’t know what the answer was. Salvatore could not transfer his office from Milan. She wasn’t even sure she wanted to go on working after the baby was born. She wanted to be a mother first and foremost. Her passion for gemology was secondary for the time being.

But the thought of di Adamo relying on her and her not fulfilling her obligation to him left a hollow place in her tummy.

Salvatore’s silence clued her in that something was not right. She examined his face. The wariness was even more apparent in his dark eyes, but his mouth was set in a grim line-as if he was prepared for some kind of argument.

‘What’s wrong?”

‘Nothing is wrong.”

‘lmpossible situation. Yes.”

She wasn’t really paying close attention because it suddenly struck her that she wanted a traditional, over-the-top wedding gown and she didn’t know if she could get one on such short notice.

‘I bet Shawna would know someone ” she muttered as she pulled up the address file for her mother’s entourage.

She would call Shawna’s secretary. The woman knew every fashion designer in New York on a first-name basis.

‘You have no reason to be angry with me.”

‘Angry?” She picked up the phone to dial the secretary, but then realized the timing was wrong and put it back down. Making a quick note to call later she went back to her work.

‘A pregnant woman should not be working in such a dangerous environment. You were shot at.”

The urgency in Salvatore’s voice finally got through the haze of thoughts competing for her attention and she let her gaze lift to him.

‘What?” Dark chocolate eyes snapped with determination.

‘lt is for the best.”

‘What is for the best?” Had she missed something here? assignor di Adamo taking on a new assistant.”