Blackmailed For The Billionaire’s Pleasure(57)

She smiled

“What tell the press…….no…. you were getting enough press at the time……..I didn’t want Alex to be just another sordid story”

She looked down at her hands

“And beside…….the way you were acting……….all those women and the way you just dumped me…………I started to think that you were no better than my father”

He looked up at her with pained eyes

“I didn’t want to end up like my mother Craig, running and hiding from you because you wanted something you thought was yours. I couldn’t tell you who I was phoning on the island because I was scared… I didn’t want you to take Alex away from me…”

Craig reached over and pulled her into his arms kissing her so gently that she felt the familiar fire burning within her veins.

“We have wasted so many years” he sighed “I am so sorry Kira, the things I thought of you…I feel sick at the way I treated you … and Alex” he added

“Don’t be sorry for me” she said seriously, Alex got me through it. “In many ways I suppose I was lucky, I had her”

Quietly he nodded his head against her

“I was so lost without you Kira, I treated women as objects and started drinking really heavily. Tom was the one who fixed me up”

Kira nodded not surprised that Tom was the one who had turned him around

He laughed softly

“One night I hit on his girlfriend…. I’d been drinking…alot……and he punched me, damn hard I might add, and then he took me home. Stayed with me all night, listening while I talked about you for hours. Over the next couple of weeks he kept dropping by refusing to take any of my rubbish, telling me that I had to pull myself together. He was a good friend to me….. a really good friend”

He smiled at the memory

Kira lifted herself from him and kneeling between his knees she looked into his sorrowful eyes.

“Like I said before he’s nice”

Craig looked deeply into her eyes, his haunted and so full of pain and sadness

“I’ve missed so much of her life” he whispered dragging a hand over his face. His eyes scanned the small room seeing the many pictures of Alex at different stages of her life. He could see the baby pictures and the toddler images and she saw his eyes filling at realising all he had lost.

“She is so beautiful just like you” he said gently, adding

“You must have looked so beautiful carrying her” he placed a hand on her stomach, his voice breaking slightly “and I wasn’t there to help you”

Kira could see the hurt in his eyes as he looked away from her not able to meet her gaze

“I should have been there for you…how the hell can you ever forgive me”

She reached up and putting her arms around his neck kissed him softly. Sitting back she had lifted the gold locket from around her neck, and as he watched she had started to open it

“You asked me once whose picture I now kept here” she said softly. He nodded remembering the day in his office in which he had blackmailed her to be with him

“I keep the picture of the two people I’ve always loved most in this world” she said softly before pulling it open to show him the images, one of the small girl now lying next door and the other the image she had cut out three years ago. He had held it in his fingers groaning his eyes full of pain

Finally they were being completely open and honest with each other and looking deeply into his eyes she felt the need to finally say the words which she had never uttered to him, despite her heart yelling it to her.

“I love you Craig. I’ve always loved you”

As he gasped she saw the light burning in his eyes as he looked down on her a happy glow on his face

“Oh Kira, I’ve loved you from the very moment I ever saw you.”

Cupping her face in his hands he kissed her softly

“I thought that I was doing OK, until I saw you again….but when I saw you in the foyer of the Superior, something in me jumped….. for the first time in a long time I actually felt something. All the anger came back like it had happened yesterday and I wanted to hurt you – but only because I was hurting so much myself…. But every time you looked at me or touched me I just dreaded the day you would be gone again”

Kira very softly whispered

“Well you don’t ever have to be alone again…. If you don’t want to be”

Craig kissed her with a deep passion, before gently pulling her onto the seat beside him. Moving he knelt down on one knee in front of her lifting her hand to kiss it#p#分页标题#e#