The Billionaire's Blind Date. Jessica Hart

mother deserves all the credit for bringing them up, I think,’ he was saying. ‘She doesn’t get as much support as she should.’

      Nell’s brows drew together. ‘In that case, perhaps you could do a bit more to help her?’ she suggested coolly.

      ‘I’d like to,’ said P.J., ‘but it’s difficult … and I have got a business to run.’

      That had always been Simon’s excuse too, she thought bitterly. ‘I haven’t got time,’ he had used to say. ‘I can’t afford to take time off. I can’t support you and Clara unless I work, can I?’ His job, it seemed, was always more important than giving his daughter some attention.

      ‘Oh, well, if your business needs you …’ she said, not bothering to disguise her sarcasm, and P.J. looked at her with a puzzled frown.

      ‘It probably doesn’t need me as much as I’d like,’ he admitted.

      ‘Does it need you more than your children?’