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and re-tying her belt didn’t seem to be getting her off the hook anytime soon. “I don’t know. I just … ”
    “Assumed?” The laughter was back and if she wasn’t such a lady — not to mention, it would be highly dangerous — she was sorely tempted to throw the cup at him.
    “As a matter of fact, yes; I did assume. How was I to know?” She was more annoyed now that she had been put on the spot. What could she say to that question anyway? “Yes I think you’d have a date because you’re a good-looking guy and you’re a young wealthy director.” Not in this lifetime.
    “Do you really think I’d fly my son all the way out here, and then gallivant off with a woman when I haven’t even had enough time to spend with
him
?” His voice was crisp, despite the smoothness.
    She had no reply. Couldn’t even offer him one if he wanted which she suspected he didn’t as he looked pretty annoyed at her right now.
    “What sort of father do you think I am?” Now she knew what the Titanic must have felt like crashing against those icebergs. His icy, glacial blue eyes made her stomach sink.
    Snaking her tongue out to wipe her suddenly dry lips, Rania realized she had one of three choices: apologize, then run; explain herself, then run; or just run.
    Ruling out the last choice as plain cowardly and the first choice as not much better than the last, she took a deep breath. “I think you are the kind of father who does all he can to make his son happy and give him the best of everything. But I also think that you are an adult and having been brought up in a single parent household, I know that you also have … er … ” She paused as she felt her face flame again.
    He’d leaned forward on his crossed arms as she had begun talking. Thankfully, the wide table provided a natural barrier so he couldn’t get closer.
    “I have … ?” He circled his hand in air, prompting her to finish. The ice in his eyes had melted down to a sparkling summer spring. Oh, he was clearly enjoying seeing her squirm.
    “You have adult requirements” she finished.
There
. She said it.
    He threw back his head and laughed, the sound echoing off the white walls.
    “Shhh, you’ll wake Theo,” she scolded.
    Wiping his eyes, he looked across at her, chest heaving with the last remnants of his laughing bout. She was glad he found her so amusing. Maybe the next job she could do for him was acting as a comedienne in one of his commercials.
    Crossing her arms in front of her, she raised an eyebrow up, leveling him with her sternest expression.
    “Are you done?” Her icy tone finally burst through his laughing bubble and the laughter disappeared from his eyes.
    “Is that what happened in your house?” The direct question threw her and she could feel herself clamping up, hiding behind the barriers she’d long ago erected for herself. She didn’t want to think about what happened in her house when she’d been growing up. Her mother hadn’t been that crass as to bring them all home; just the one or two who she thought could help her land that starring role, and who might have been the man that Rania would have to call dad.
    Thankfully, she had always been spared that as they never stuck around; a fact she used to try and tell her mum when she reached her teens but gave up soon after.
    “I don’t see what my life’s got to do with this. We were talking about you,” she stammered, wishing her voice didn’t sound as uncertain as she felt. Maybe while she was here, she could sign up for acting lessons.
    “You’re right. So let me be honest. Since Lila died, yes, I have dated but no one I’d introduce to my son and I have no plans to date while Theo is over here. My first, last and all the other priorities in between revolve around my son.”
    Finding it hard to trust her voice, she swallowed the back the lump that had formed. Nodding, she stood up and made her way toward the open arch door, certain if she didn’t leave now then he’d see