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It made me want you all the more. I set up the movie deal in the hope that it would win you around to wanting me again.”

He heaved a sigh to relieve the tightness in his chest. Her gaze was clinging to his. No anguish in her eyes now. More an urgent intensity, begging for more.

“Then there was Jack. Which completely threw me. You’d so decisively

shut me out, even when I had the right to know we’d made a child.” He leaned forward, forearms on his knees, hands gesturing futility as he shook his head.”I won’t even try to explain what I felt then. I know I shamelessly used Jack to get you, and right then I didn’t care if you wanted me or not. I was going to have both of you and I would have done anything to force that end.”

“I’m glad you did, Peter,” she inserted with startling vehemence. “Glad that I invaded your life and carried you off?” he queried.

“Yes. I didn’t want to be alone. I just didn’t know how to…how to fix things between us. I got it all wrong. I know I did. These past two