Harlequin Dare October 2018 Box Set by Caitlin Crews
Author:Caitlin Crews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER TWO
Vita
âYOUâVE GOT TO be kidding.â I stared at my father in shock. âYou want me to marry who?â
Dad had that hard expression on his face, the one he always got when he wanted his own way. âLeon King, of King Enterprises. The one whoââ
âI know who he is,â I interrupted, folding my hands in my lap so he wouldnât see them shake. âThe whole city knows the King brothers.â
Property developers whoâd made a lot of money in a very short space of time. Ex-criminals, some would say. Still criminals, said others.
I had no opinion on the subject since it didnât interest me. At least, it hadnât interested me. Not until my father had called meâa shock in itself since I hadnât had contact with either of my parents for about six monthsâand asked me to come to his downtown office for a meeting.
I hadnât wanted toâI had a report I had to write for my job as a research assistant at Sydney University and the last thing I felt like doing was trying to pretend I still had a relationship with my family. But heâd insisted. Told me it was important. That it concerned my sister.
That I owed them.
He wasnât wrong. I did owe them. In fact, Iâd been waiting ten years for him to call in that debt, because Iâd had no doubt at all that he would. And now he had it was a relief in many ways.
Except that he wanted me to marry some total stranger in place of my sister.
âWhy me?â I tried to keep my voice calm and level because there was no point getting emotional. Iâd learned that the hard way. âDid Clara say no?â
Dad moved around behind his massive oak desk and sat down, giving me the cold judgemental look heâd perfected over the years. âNot exactly. I havenât told her about it.â
I blinked. This whole thing was getting weirder and weirder.
Odd enough that Dad had called me out of the blue to ask me to take Claraâs place and marry some criminal, but that he hadnât even told Clara about itâ¦?
âYouâre going to have to explain,â I said carefully. âBecause I donât understand how you can not tell Clara. Or even why youâre asking me, for that matter.â
Dad was silent, staring at me as if weighing up what he wanted to say.
I stared back. If he thought I was going to fall in line, like Mum and Clara always did, he could think again. Years ago, heâd sent me away to an aunt up north and Iâd gone without protest, finishing my schooling away from Sydney society and its far-too-bright lights, burying myself in the relative obscurity of a tiny town and concerning myself only with my studies.
But I wasnât the same person now as Iâd been back then. I wasnât seventeen for a start, and I was happy out of the spotlight. In fact, out of the spotlight was where I wanted to stay.
I had a nice, quiet, comfortable life in the labs at the university, completely separate from my family.
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