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admired Southern Irish-born actor with a back catalogue of box office hits stretching over four decades that had made him a very wealthy man indeed, and India ’s mother had known this.   She’d kept their affair back in 1968 very much a secret, kept everything to herself about just who India ’s real father was – until the time had suited her.   Until she knew she could use it to her advantage, and use it she had.
    But she was out of their lives now.   India was his and he loved her with a fierce protectiveness only a father could understand.   He loved her so much.
    Tall and handsome with sparkling blue-grey eyes and an accent that, despite all his years in L.A., still had that tinge of Irish twang to it, Reece Brogan was happy.   Happy that he had his daughter in his life, happy that she’d given him two incredible grandchildren; happy with his career.   At the age of sixty-three he’d lost none of his good looks, meaning he was still very much in demand in Hollywood and that was good, because he was in no hurry to retire.   He didn’t feel ready for the golf courses of Palm Springs just yet.   He was happy right where he was, still busy, still making great movies.   But finding India , finding his beautiful daughter, that had been his biggest success.   The only thing that really mattered.
    Once he’d known of her existence he’d done everything in his power to find her.   And one rainy November night back in 1991, in her home city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North East of England, he’d eventually tracked her down – a pretty young legal secretary with an ordinary life that he’d turned upside down the second he’d walked into her world.
    He’d whisked her over to L.A. on the premise of a screen-test, an excuse to keep her close for a while, a chance to get to know her before he broke the news to her that he was her father.   But that screen-test had ultimately, and unexpectedly, changed her life, turning her into one of Hollywood ’s biggest stars almost overnight.  
    And that change in her life had resulted in Reece wasting yet more years wondering how to tell her the truth, waiting longer than he should have done to let her know who he really was.   But, once it was finally out in the open – years later than it should have been – it had proved to be a turning point for India .
    Everything had changed after that.   She and Michael Walsh had married, becoming one of Hollywood ’s most powerful couples.   They’d had Ethan – Reece’s gorgeous grandson – and Reece had thought that was it, that she was settled and happy, surrounded by the family she so badly needed.
    But, not long after Ethan’s birth, something had happened between her and Michael.   Something she’d never spoken to him about but something that had caused her to cut the famous actor out of her life for more than five years and Reece knew, he was absolutely certain, that both Kenny and JJ knew exactly what had caused India to do that.   Why, for all those years, she wouldn’t even talk about Michael, despite the fact they had a child together.   He knew that some people had every idea just what had gone on, while he still had none.   But she’d told him one thing – she’d told him that he didn’t need to know, and he’d learnt to accept that that was all he was ever going to get out of her on the subject.
    It was all in the past now, anyway.   Because her almost obsessive attachment to Michael seemed to be showing no signs of re-appearing, and for that Reece couldn’t be more grateful.   But he still hoped that she never found out that the main reason he’d taken this movie role alongside her was to make sure that nothing had the chance to start up again between her and Michael.   He believed her totally when she said she was never going back, but it wasn’t his daughter he was concerned about.   Michael Walsh, however, was another matter.
    ‘She’s a big girl now, honey,’ Martha smiled,