Demanding His Billion-Dollar Heir by Pippa Roscoe

Demanding His Billion-Dollar Heir by Pippa Roscoe

Author:Pippa Roscoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-12-03T15:03:06+00:00


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Maria was shaking. With fury, with injustice... For the first time she felt like the beast, wanting to lash out and destroy. That such a thing had been done to him. That he had been so badly misused and betrayed, on top of the devastation that he had already experienced. Suddenly memories of their first night together crashed down upon her. It must have taken so much for him to give into her request It must have taken trust. A trust that she hadn’t earned then, but wanted to now. She wanted him to see what she saw.

‘I am truly sorry that happened to you.’

He shrugged his shoulder, as if dismissing her and the compassion she offered. But she wouldn’t be dismissed. Not this time. She turned him around to face her and waited until he met her eyes.

‘But you need to know that I did not and do not see you as a beast. And...’ She paused, hoping that Matthieu would understand, would believe her next words. ‘And I think you should also know that not all the posts on your phone, not all the press reports, do either.’

He scoffed and turned back away from her. She didn’t need his phone to remember the other headlines.

Montcour Finds Happiness.

Montcour’s Charity a Resounding Success.

Millions Raised by Montcour.

‘Matthieu—did you ever think that the reason the press are so interested in you is not because of the scars, or your reputation, or the loss of your family, but because you survived? Because you turned something truly terrible into something amazing? A charity that gives back to those that need it?’

Disbelief and something painfully like hope shone in his eyes. It gave her the strength to carry on.

‘That they aren’t horrified, but amazed by how well you’ve done for yourself?’

He frowned and in that moment she wondered whether he had even seen those particular headlines amongst the dross that had spewed onto social media.

She could see him trying to assimilate what she had said into how he had spent years of his life viewing the negative headlines about him and what he’d achieved. She could almost feel the war within him as he tried to reframe the image of himself, not through the bitter lens of the desperate press, but as how she saw him, as how others might. But before she could tell what conclusion he had come to, he shut down. She could almost hear the door closing on his thoughts.

‘I am going to bed.’

And he left her standing alone in the middle of the large open space, concrete and soft white leather, so stark in comparison to the way his entire being had become her sole focus, the large, heated breath of his body... She couldn’t leave it like that. Couldn’t just let him walk away. He was in pain, that she could see clearly. For a while she simply stood there, wanting to go to him, not sure if she had that right. But if she didn’t, she



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