The Greek Tycoon's Baby. LYNNE GRAHAM

extended an audiotape to her. “It’s all on here. First, you send out the invitations to the dinner party. Then you can nip over to Bond Street and choose a bracelet for Brigitte. I’ll fill in the gift card.”

      Powered by a near-agonizing sense of humiliation and pain, Susie lifted her head, green eyes alight with outrage.

      “You are asking me to choose jewelry for your current lover?’ she exclaimed and flung the tape back at his feet. “You call that work? I call it victimization and revenge. Burn in hell, Leos!’

      Leos studied her with incredulous tawny eyes.

      “I hate you … I really hate you! You were the biggest mistake I ever made in my whole life!” And on that embittered declaration, Susie stalked out …

      CHAPTER FIVE

      AN HOUR LATER, Susie’s tumultuous emotions calmed enough for her to slowly fill with horror at her own behavior.

      She had spent 10 minutes silently sobbing in the cloakroom, 20 minutes trying to pull herself back together and the subsequent 30 minutes hugging Ben in the day care.

      Ben, whose comfort and security were dependant on her success in the job market. Ben, whose mother had just lost her foolish head and screamed like a shrew at a monstrously insensitive male. Ben, whose mother now had to eat humble pie for his sake.

      Back on the top floor, Susie knocked on Leos’s office door with a hand she couldn’t keep steady. Infuriated with herself, she whirled back flat against the wall and breathed in deeply before going in.

      Lounging back in his desk chair, Leos surveyed her, his lean, powerful face unreadable.