The Billionaire’s Prodigal Wife – Chapter 20

Alessandro considered of all the times he’d been angry at Mackenna, this might be the most volatile he had ever felt. He’d returned to the hotel suite thirty minutes ago and she was nowhere to be found. As he considered she had taken off yet again but this time with their child, his rage was growing epically by the millisecond. He slammed his fist against the tabletop as he called his head of security with another demand to find her. Since it was almost noon, he had no idea how long she’d been gone or how far she’d gotten.

He looked up in surprise as the door of the suite opened and she stepped into the room, her eyes narrowed on his reddened cheeks. “Where the hell have you been?”

She dropped her hand from the door and felt her own temper flaring. “I had a doctor appointment Alessandro.”

made him pause and his fist uncl

the consideration of knowing my whereabouts, leave a number.” She threw her purse on the side table.

reath as his panic slowly eased. “I apologize Mackenna. I should have le

h her leg in a cast to her hip, it’s not hard to know where you were. If you want to leave a phone number in case of an emergency, it would be great. It might come in handy, say if I go into labour or something but since I don’t expect it for another eight months or so,

ith Dulce so he ignored it. He grabbed her purse and dug her cell phone f

my heart rate was normal.” She pushed past him and moved to the bedroom. “I want to go to my apartment and pick up some of my clot

I’ll take you shopping.”

mbed onto the bed.

”

She pulled a pillow under her cheek and closed her eyes. Just looking at him made her want him and it was easier to sleep through the desire than it was

his anger slowly coming back. “Mackenna we cannot make our marriage work if you’re going to be throwing jabs all the time.”

ttle fool I was five years ago.”

ld-hearted b***h you are right now.”

ing you left our bed yet again to go to her?” She pushed off the bed. There was no way she could sleep with him glaring and itching for a fight. “I changed my mi

op her from bending down to slip back into her shoes.

st and it’s fine with me.”

it is nobody’s business but my own what happens in it.”

n. “So much for privacy, if you really expect me to believe you’re not screwing her, maybe you might want to let her know you’re denying it.”

d…”

cular physical need. I’d rather just not if you don’t mind.”

e did in this moment. She was not the same woman he’d married.

d him to the living space.

d, Mackenna.” He called after her. “I told you, you are not walking alone.” He followed her out and folded his arms as she lifted h

l.” She was closer to the door than he was, and she was out of it before he could reach her. She hit the lock knowing he’d fumble with it. The elevator was still on the floor from when she’d gotten off and she pushed the button and it opened. The doors were closing just before he reached it and the sound of his palm slapping the metal made her jump and smi

e simply needed him to know she was not playing by his rules any longer. She had already called Camille and told her to halt the proceedings. When she’d told her she was pregnant thanks to the foolish escapade the month before, Camille had agreed with her she could not guarantee her a victory in a custody battle with Alessandro. She could get her joint custody at best, and she did not want to be separated from her child.

nted in her and she bear the thought. Her grandfather had sounded happy for her and was excited she was moving back to Milan.

her wish.

owing even as she thought of him. Her eye caught a bookstore, and she had the sudden

for her divorce, and she knew Alessandro would pay the bulk of her needs now.

d and was the size of a lima bean. She giggled as she read all about where it would be in its development and the interesting changes occurring even as she sat there not feeling any different than she had a week before.

Savannah worked harder than anyone else she knew but she loved it.

s narrowed on her and he motioned to the man beside her, and she gave a grimace in his direction. She saw Carlos motioned to her to approach him and she rolled her eyes and shook her head.

self as he almost tripped over his feet racing across the lobby at her refusal to do as he

or her arm.

ce you to your new bodyguard.” Car

n knows I exist. Nuncio, you’d be better off serving Dulce.”

iordano family. It is no longer about just protecting you but the child in

rimly.

und for the rest of your God-given life or until Alessandro fires me or I quit.”

is rots,” she smacked her hand against her thigh as she stepped

Carlos commented quietly. “Alessandro wants you taken care of.”

a dental visit and have it put in my filling.” She heard Nuncio chuckling and she fought her own twisting lips. She opened the door to the hotel room and preceded them into the space. She grimaced at Alessandro hunched over his laptop.

Damn him.