Harlequin Presents, November 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Sharon Kendrick
Author:Sharon Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER ONE
âSMILE, CALYPSO. ITâS the happiest day of your life!â
âHere, let me put some more blusher on your cheeksâ¦youâre so pale. Perhaps a bit more shadow for your beautiful eyesâ¦â
Beneath the endless layers of white tulle that some faceless stranger had deemed the perfect wedding gown material and gone to town with my fingers bunched into fists. When the tight clenches didnât help, I bit the tip of my tongue and fought the urge to scream.
But I was past hysteria. That unfortunate state had occurred two weeks prior, when my father had informed me just how heâd mapped out the rest of my life. How it was my turn to help restore our familyâs honour.
Or else.
The cold shivers racing up and down my spine had become familiar in the last month, after a few days spent in denial that my father would truly carry out his intentions.
Iâd quickly accepted that he would.
Years of bitterness and humiliation and failure to emulate his ruthless fatherâs dubious acclaim had pushed him over the edge once and for all.
The soft bristles of the blusher brush passed feverishly over my cheeks. The make-up artist determined to transform me into an eager, blushing, starry-eyed bride.
But I was far from eager and a million miles away from starry-eyed.
The only thing theyâd got right in this miserable spectacle was the virginal white.
If Iâd had a choice that too would have been a lie. At twenty-four I knew, even in my sheltered existence, that being a virgin was a rare phenomenon. At least now I realised why my father had been hell-bent on thwarting my every encounter with the opposite sex. Why heâd ruthlessly vetted my friendships, curtailed my freedom.
Iâd believed my choices had been so abruptly limited since the moment my mother fell from grace. Since she returned home the broken prodigal wife and handed my father all the weapons he needed to transform himself from moderately intolerable to fearsome tyrant. I thought Iâd been swept along by the merciless broom of wronged party justice, but heâd had a completely different purpose for me.
A purpose which had brought me to this moment.
My wedding day.
The next shudder coagulated in my chin, making it wobble like jelly before I could wrestle my composure back under control.
Luckily the trio of women whoâd descended on our house twenty-four hours ago were clucking about pre-wedding nerves, then clucking some more about how understandable my fraught emotions were, considering who my prospective husband was.
Axios Xenakis.
A man Iâd never met.
Sure, like everyone in Greece I knew who he was. A wildly successful airline magnate worth billions and head of the influential Xenakis family. A family whose ill fortune, unlike mine, had been reversed due the daring innovation of its young CEO.
It was rumoured that Axios Xenakis was the kind of individual whose projections could cause stock markets to rise or fall. The various articles Iâd read about him had boggled my mindâthe idea that any one person could wield such power and authority was bewildering. To top it off, Axios Xenakis was drop-dead gorgeous, if a little fierce-looking.
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