CHAPTER 30

  "NO." HOLLY sat down hard on the nearest chair, her heart pounding. "That isn't possible," she said hoarsely. "I am living proof that it isn't possible. Why would you even think that?"

  "Eight years ago I had an accident."

  The accident that had killed his brother and Antonia. "I know about the accident."

  "You know only what I chose to reveal." He paced across the room and stared out over the ocean. "Everyone knew that Santallia lost the heir to the throne. Everyone knew my fiancée died. No one knew that the accident crushed my pelvis so badly that my chances of ever fathering a child were nil."

  Holly's mind was in turmoil. "Casper—"