Название: Once in Paris
Автор: Diana Palmer
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
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Brianne’s mother, Eve, having left the baby with the live-in nurse, slipped into her room as she was changing into jeans and a green silk shirt that matched her eyes.
“Has he spoken to you?” the older woman asked quickly.
“Yes,” Brianne replied. She stared at her mother, seeing the new lines in her pretty, soft face, the new haunted look in her pale eyes. “Indeed he has.”
Eve twisted her hands together. “I had no idea that he was going to take it this far, Brianne,” she said miserably. “I know you don’t like Mr. Sabon. I know what people say about him. But he’s very rich and powerful—”
“And you think money is the most important thing in the world,” she replied with cold eyes.
Her mother averted her gaze quickly. “I didn’t say that. He could give you anything you wanted, though. And it would make Kurt happy.”
“Making your husband happy isn’t my main goal in life, Mother,” Brianne said with an unfamiliar iciness in her tone. “And if you think I’m going to marry that man to keep Kurt Brauer happy, you are sadly misinformed.”
Her mother looked horrified. “You…you didn’t say that to him?” she asked with real fear.
“Of course not!” she replied quickly. “Mother, I’m not a fool. He did make certain threats about you, and the baby,” she added reluctantly. She and Eve had never been close. At times like this, it was sad, because they could have confided in each other, comforted each other. Eve had always lied about her age. Brianne’s very presence, not to mention her age, was a visible contradiction. Like many pretty women, she had a hard time accepting the advance of her years.
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