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228 Irresistible Forces
He face darkened. “I will call occasionally for no
other reason than to check on my child. Otherwise,
Taylor, our association is over.”
Taylor fought back the tears in her eyes. “If that’s
the way you want things, Dominic, then that’s the
way they will be.”
He stared down at her for a few more minutes
and then without saying anything else, he turned
and walked out of her condo.
It was later that day before Taylor was able to get
out of bed, and only then because she knew she
needed to eat something. She had to take care of the
life growing inside her—the life Dominic had
placed there.
As she began moving around her apartment, she
couldn’t put out of her mind the words Dominic had
spoken. Did he hate his grandfather that much?
Okay, she could imagine how he must have felt as a
child growing up to discover the rift that existed
between his parents and his grandfather, but if his
parents could forgive the man, then why couldn’t he?
“Because he is so damn stubborn,” Taylor muttered
as she sat down to eat a bowl of cereal and milk.
“Okay, so I won’t be at his beck and call anymore,”
she said to the walls, sneering. “It will be his loss. I
should not have been at his beck and call anyway. The
only thing between us was lust…at least on his end.”
She knew for her it was more. It was love.