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CHAPTER 14
Maxim gave Michaela a long look.
“And you wouldn’t mind if I were having sex with other women?” he asked, his words obviously chosen to provoke a response from her.
“I wouldn’t care either way. If we aren’t sleeping together, then there isn’t a relationship to be faithful to.”
“You may feel differently once we speak our vows.”
“I doubt that I will. What we have in common is the desire to do what’s right for our child. Nothing more. We didn’t even conceive in the way most couples do.”
“But we very easily could have.”
It wasn’t true, Michaela knew it wasn’t, and yet it was far too easy to visualize the image, a picture of her meeting Maxim in a bar, a restaurant, on the street… Of them talking, smiling, laughing, or having dinner together… Going home together and making love all night long…
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