Diana Hamilton - The Mediterranean Billionaire's Secret Baby by Anja

Author:Anja [Anja]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-03-31T14:50:24+00:00

And the reality had been beautiful beyond his dreams, putting his fantasies into deep shade.

But he would make sure he was never tempted again. He was strong enough. Hadn’t his character been likened to steel? ‘Our marriage will be on paper only. A façade to provide our son with two parents.’ A frown clefted his brow, his sculpted features hard. ‘Immediately after the ceremony—civil, naturally—we will go to my family home in Tuscany, where my son will grow up with the freedom and happiness he needs. He will have the uncomplicated childhood I never enjoyed.

You, as his mother, will share my wealth and my status, enjoy the respect that that will bring, and in return you will never complain. Should you attempt to remove my son from my protection, or take a lover, you will be history.’

Raw anger flicked deep inside her. It took gold-plated heartless arrogance to lay down such punitive rules. Colour staining her cheeks, heightening the brilliance of her eyes, she flung at him, ‘So I’m to live like a nun in a gilded cage, far away from family and friends? No, thanks. I don’t rate feather-bedding that highly!’

‘You like money—you like sex. But you can’t have both. Get used to it.’ His cold intonation fuelled her anger. Who did he think he was?

She got to her feet, unable to sit still a moment longer. ‘On Ischia I thought you were the most wonderful, exciting, caring man ever to breathe—now I know you’re the dregs!’ she told him stormily. ‘I won’t marry you, and I withdraw the offer to allow you access. Ever! I won’t have my son contaminated!’

‘Sit down.’ Lean fingers fastened around her wrist, tugging her back beside him.

Steely grey eyes set a collision course with hers, and her breath came feebly even though her heart was clattering like a runaway train. The force of his personality scared her silly, but she held his gaze, not willing to let him see her weakness.

‘You have a regrettable tendency to behave like a drama queen,’ he incised, his devastating features set in grim lines. ‘You once set your sights on my wealth—you can’t deny it. Now it is yours for the taking I suggest you stop behaving like a spoiled brat and face the fact that you can’t have me twisted round your pretty fingers, doting putty in your hands. Accept it. Or tell me what you do want from our marriage and I will consider it.’

Anna clamped her mouth shut. What she wanted—would have wanted when she’d thought the sun rose and set with him—she could never have. But she wasn’t telling him that. And as for denying that she wanted to get her hands on his wretched money, forget it! Let him think what he liked. She wasn’t going to lay her already bleeding heart at his feet and confess that all she’d ever wanted was his love.

‘Nothing to say? I thought not.’ He dealt her a brooding look from smoky eyes.

‘Then I will lay the full details of my proposal in front you of, and you can decide which road you wish to travel.

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