Bride Behind The Billion-Dollar Veil by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual Story Theme, Hearts Desire, Multicultural & International, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Foreign Country, Action & Adventure, Crazy Rich Greek Weddings, Greek Nationality & Heritage, Scandalous Reputation, Richest Playboy, Executive Assistant, Convenient & Platonic Marriage, Powerful Emotions
Publisher: Harlequin Presents; Original Edition
Published: 2019-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

‘KALIMÉRA, KYRIA STATHAKIS.’

The words, spoken in his native tongue, were like little beads of sunshine rolling over her skin. Alice stretched, muscles that were not used to being so well used flexing in her body. She stifled a yawn, shifting a little in the enormous bed. Beyond the window, the vines of France were a heady, vibrant green. She shifted to face him, wondering at what point they’d decided she’d join him in his room, rather than keeping to the terms of their agreement—that she would have her own space; that they’d hardly see each other. In fact, in the five days since their wedding, they’d barely been apart.

Alice might have found that troublesome, except for the certainty that their essential terms weren’t changing. So they’d blurred the lines a little. So what? That was just wiggle room. Lots of wiggle room.

Neither of them was being silly about this. They both knew there were divorce papers signed in a lawyer’s drawer somewhere, waiting for Thanos to make the call to have them filed.

She shifted a little, her gaze lifting to his handsome face.

‘I like it when you speak Greek.’

He arched a brow. ‘Tóte tha to káno sychná. Then I will do it often.’

She smiled and placed her head flat against his chest once more, her fingertips chasing invisible circles over his taut flesh.

‘I could teach you.’

‘Greek?’

‘Mmm.’ She heard the agreement rumble through his chest.

‘I’m already learning Italian.’

The fingers exploring her spine stilled. ‘Are you?’

‘Sì. Ma non posso parlare bene. But I can’t speak it very well. E molto difficile.’

‘Why are you studying Italian?’ he asked in that tongue.

It took Alice a moment to put her answer into the right words. ‘So that I can speak like a native when I go there.’

His hand began to move up and down her spine once more. ‘You want to go to Italy?’ He was back to English.

‘Sì,’ she said, a wistful smile on her lips.

‘Italy’s beautiful, but it is no Greece.’

Alice laughed softly. ‘And you wouldn’t be at all biased?’

He shrugged, the action dislodging her head a little so she lifted her face to his, pressing her chin into his chest. ‘You will decide for yourself when we go there.’ His hand lifted to her hair, running through it, curling behind her head. ‘Why Italy?’

The past pulled at her like a string attached to her soul that she could never snip.

‘Beyond the fact it’s meant to be one of the most beautiful places on earth?’

‘Yes.’

She smothered a smile, knowing he wouldn’t let it go now he’d decided he was interested.

‘For a year, we lived in Massachusetts. Mom got a job working in a call centre for a phone company and she had a friend with a spare room so we packed up and moved.’ The description neatly glossed over how hard that time had been in Alice’s life. She’d been twelve, and had started to put down roots, to make tentative, hesitant friendships that she’d bitterly resented having to leave.

‘It was cold and dark and I hated it,’ Alice said with a wry smile.

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