The Fatherhood Affair. Emma Darcy
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the moment, you’re free of it. When your memory returns, it will colour your reactions and responses.’
‘To you, as well?’
‘Yes, certainly. To me.’ He lifted his gaze and seared her heart with the agonised conflict that raged inside him. ‘I don’t want it to happen, Natalie. But it will.’
‘Will it be a...bad...reaction? To you, I mean.’
He paused fractionally, then gave a firm answer. ‘Yes. It will be a bad reaction.’
‘So what does that mean?’ she asked, perplexed.
She couldn’t imagine why she should turn on this man. There did not seem to be any reasonable explanation. She waited expectantly for Damien to give her an answer. When his reply came, it was nothing she could possibly have anticipated.
‘It means,’ he said slowly, as if he had an infinity of pain, ‘that I have limited time ... maybe ... between one or two days and a couple of months before your memory is fully restored. In that period of time I have to fulfil my life.’
The blaze of purpose, resolution and desire coming from his deeply recessed eyes lent such impact to his words, Natalie was struck by the need for an instant response, an assurance to him, a defence of the fair-minded person she felt herself to be. Through whatever eyes she had seen him before, the man she saw now was a man she wanted in her life.
‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, Damien, but I promise you this. I won’t forget what you’ve done for me, nor the way you’ve stuck by me through everything.’
She had hoped he would relax, look reassured.
All that stared back at her was total disbelief.
‘What did you do to me,’ she whispered, ‘that I should respond to you...in such a negative fashion?’
‘Nothing,’ he said mockingly. ‘Maybe I should have. I don’t know. What I can declare with absolute conviction and honesty is that I did nothing to you at all.’
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