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‘And you have noissues with fertility?’

Her face burned even hotter ‘None that I know of, no’

Zayed swore under his breath and turned away from her in one abrupt nancy, and could she even be surprised? He was planning to divorce her Of course he didn’t want her to have his baby Yet strangely, stupidly, Olivia felt hurt

Zayed squared his shoulders, his taut back to her ‘So there is a chance you could be pregnant?’

‘Yes, I suppose’

He turned around ‘You suppose?’

Irritation bit ‘Yes, I suppose I’m not omniscient, Zayed, and this is not ht you’d realised that, but it see me’

‘No, I’m sorry’ He rubbed a hand wearily over his face ‘I don’tso presumptuous and rash It’s just another complication in what is already a very coht of it sooner’ He dropped his hand froly wry and honest look ‘I’m ashamed that I did not’

‘It’s understandable,’ Olivia murmured Her flush had thankfully faded but she still felt e about this at all ‘You’ve had a lot on your mind’

‘Yes, but’ He stared at her for aOlivia looked back at him warily ‘You realised,’ he said, and it was a state’

‘What was I supposed to say?’

‘That you ether in a line ‘I know it’s stating the obvious, but it is clearly a potential issue, and one that we needed to discuss’

‘I suppose I didn’t see the point of discussing it until it was a certainty’

‘But by that point you ht have been out of my life!’ Zayed took a step closer to her ‘Were you considering not telling me about my child, Olivia?’

She gazed at hithat hasn’t even happened yet? I nant I’m probably not’