“I’ll Want A DNA Test.”
“Of course,” she said.
“I’ll take care of it tomorrow.”
“What?” She shook her head, looked at him and asked, “Don’t you have to wait until we’re back in San Pedro?”
“No, I’m not going to wait. I want this question settled as quickly as possible.” He continued to eat, as though what they were discussing wasn’t affecting him in the slightest. “We dock at Cabo in the morning. You and I will go ashore, find a lab and have them fax the findings to the lab in San Pedro.”
“We will?” She hadn’t planned on spending a lot of time with Nick, after all. She’d come on board only to tell him about the twins, and frankly, she’d thought he wouldn’t want anything more to do with her after that. Instead, he’d moved her into his suite and now was proposing that they spend even more time together.
“Until this is taken care of to my satisfaction,”
Nick told her softly, “I’m not letting you out of my sight. The two of us are going to be joined at the hip. So you might as well start getting used to it.”
“Don’t you think what I say is going to matter at all? Why do you need to be such a pompous bastard always, Nick?” asked Isobel as she glared at him.
“Do you think that you are really in a position to tell me such a thing? After all that you have done? After all that you have said and kept on lying to me about? You are not the woman that I can ever trust in my life. I don’t even know that you are telling the truth and how am I supposed to know this that you are here not to break my engagement?” asked Nicholas with a cool gaze as Isobel seethed in rage.
“You are the one who ruined my career. You are the one who made it sure that I can never get a job in my line even though you never gave me a chance to explain myself. If you are going to call that your engagement to the blonde barracuda is something of substance then no one is a bigger fool than you,” said Isobel with a satisfied smile as she looked at his angry eyes.
“You are just jealous of Barbara because she has something you can never have. That is me,” said Nicholas as he growled and Isobel gave out a short bark of laughter.
“You are truly delusional Nicholas to think that I would ever want you. The only reason that I am here on this trip is because I felt that you deserved to know that you have children. I am never going to ask you for anything. They are solely my kids and mine only and I shall make sure that they never even get close to you or your new family. Because I can tolerate a lot of things but I shall never allow my babies to be called bastards. And if I had known that you were getting engaged then I would have never come on this cruise ever,” said Isobel as she threw the napkin on the table and then walked away.
Nicholas thought to himself with grim realization that this woman had the same effect on him as she did the last time.