Harlequin Presents April 2023--Box Set 1 of 2 by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Zephyr Diamandis.

The name was unashamedly Greek.

Arrogantly and pompously so, some might even say. A world removed from the pedestrian Yiannis he’d settled on when he woke up in the strange bed ten months ago.

Shock immobilised him as his brain searched frantically to parse through the bombshell just detonated at his feet. But like every time he attempted it, a dull throb commenced at his temples. As if urging him to let go. To forget.

Zephyr Diamandis.

It was as alien to him as Yiannis.

Yiannis With-No-Last-Name.

That was what his soon-to-be yiayia by marriage had laughingly called him for months after he was welcomed into Petros’s small family.

While the name hadn’t quite settled on him as he’d secretly wished it would, he’d accepted it. Because really, he’d had very little to call his own back then, save for the tattered clothes he’d been found in. And the fact that he spoke the language and must be Greek.

His life had improved somewhat since then, however. Now he boasted a handful of friends, cordial neighbours and even a job helping Petros manage his ten fishing vessels. Altogether, he was content enough—although was complete contentment ever achievable?—to have finally given in to the gentle but firm nudges from Petros to make an honest woman of his daughter.

Enough for him to set aside—for now at least—the quest to discover his past.

As Petros had reasoned, if he was important to anyone out there in the wide world, surely the local police force—although it was a stretch to call the single policeman who settled all squabbles at the village taverna a force—would’ve found something by now?

He shifted beneath the itch between his shoulder blades, the thin inner voice that mocked him for not pushing harder. For ignoring the quiet urgency that dogged him at night.

‘Yiannis?’

He turned to the woman enclosed within his arm, a little startled that he’d forgotten all about her in the aftermath of this stranger...this scantily dressed, fearless and offensive, stunning...beauty who proclaimed herself his wife.

Whose bright green eyes held both defiance and censure. Whose overfull lips were the most sensual lips he’d ever seen. Whose lustrous chestnut locks he wanted to sink his fingers—

Theós...he wasn’t seriously contemplating one woman’s lips when he was standing before an altar, minutes away from marrying another, was he?

Should he thank this woman...whoever she was—because he still wasn’t convinced this wasn’t some cosmic joke, perhaps an overextension of the beer-filled bachelor’s party the village men had thrown him two nights ago—for saving him from committing bigamy?

A small hand touched his chest and he refocused on Thea, his almost-bride.

Her face held wariness and confusion, much like the emotions churning through him.

‘His name isn’t Yiannis,’ the woman—his wife—said.

Flicking a glance at her, he watched her nostrils flare in jealousy and felt a punch of something—hot and vibrant and puzzlingly satisfying—inside him.

What the hell?

Was he...glad that this woman was jealous of Thea?

Ever the thinker, as Petros had also laughingly labelled him, he placed himself in the woman’s position. Then felt a distinctly unpleasant emotion churn in his gut.

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