Billionaire's Mediterranean Proposal by Julia James

Author:Julia James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-04T19:59:06+00:00

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Tara sat at the silvered Art Deco dressing table, carefully applying minimal eye make-up—just a touch of mascara tonight was all that was needed—and a sheen of lip gloss. Her mood was strange. Everything was so similar to the previous night, when she’d been making up her face and getting dressed for that yacht party with Celine’s awful friends, and yet everything was totally different.

Marc was different.

That was the key to it, she knew. That ‘bear with a sore head’, as he had called himself with total accuracy, was simply gone. She couldn’t help but make a face at how he’d railed at her. This time yesterday he’d laid into her furiously in this very room for daring to take matters into her own hands, and to damn well lay off him! But her ploy had worked—and he’d had to admit it had worked even better than either of them could have imagined!

And now, mission more than accomplished, they could both have their reward for freeing poor Hans from his ghastly wife.

Reward...

The word hovered in Tara’s head. Beguiling, tempting.

She knew just what that reward was going to be...

Impossible not to know...

And to know with a certainty that had been building up in her hour after hour, all day.

Marc was right—whatever was happening between them, it was powerful and irresistible. They wanted each other—had done since first seeing each other, and had gone on wanting each other all through those torturous days when they’d both been forced to pretend in public what they had tried so hopelessly to deny in private.

They wanted each other. It was the one undeniable truth between them.

It was as simple as that.

Her eyes flickered around the beautiful room and she looked out through the windows to the darkening view beyond, over the gardens and the sea. Her very first thought on arrival here had been how gorgeous it all was, and how she should make the most of it.

Well...a half-smile played around her mouth...now she was going to make the most of it. And of the man who came with it.

The man who, even when he was at his most overbearing, his most obnoxious, his most short-tempered, possessed the ability to set her pulse racing, her blood surging, her heart-rate quickening...

She could feel it now, and with another little flutter inside her, she got to her feet.

I can’t resist him and there’s no reason to. He wants me—I want him. I know it won’t last—can’t last—but I must simply enjoy this time with him.

He wasn’t a man she’d ever have got involved with had it not been for him hiring her, but since he had, and she was—well, why not accept what was happening between them?

Why not—as she was doing now—slip into an ankle-length, fine cotton sundress in a vivid floral print of vibrant blues and crimsons that was nothing like the formal evening gowns and cocktail dresses she’d worn when the Neubergers were there. She was ‘off duty’ now, and she wanted only to feel comfortable.

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