Harlequin Presents January 2018 - Box Set 2 of 2 by Dani Collins Caitlin Crews Melanie Milburne & Bella Frances

Author:Dani Collins, Caitlin Crews, Melanie Milburne & Bella Frances
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488083976
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

ADONIS ESTEBAN BETANCUR came into the world with a roar.

He had a shock of dark hair and fists he seemed to think were mighty as he waved them all around him in a great fervor.

And Susannah had never seen anything more beautiful, heartbreaking and gorgeous at once, as the way one tiny baby boy with an outsized personality wrapped his ruthless, intimidating father around his perfect little fingers.

Though their life together came close.

Leonidas found he didn’t much care for running the Betancur Corporation alone, and especially not when he could have Susannah by his side to do it with him. Leonidas on his own had been a force to be reckoned with. The Widow Betancur had wielded her own inexorable power.

Together, there was nothing they couldn’t do.

She was pregnant with twin girls when he came to her, late one night after he’d put four-year-old Adonis to bed with tales of brave Greek gods and stories of grand adventures. Susannah watched him from where she sat, out by the quiet pool in the soft Australian night, in the same Darling Point house in Sydney where he’d sent her to live on her own once upon a time.

Leonidas smiled as he came to her, lit by the soft lights that hung in the trees, and sat beside her on the outdoor couch that was tucked up in the shade during the hot days and offered a fire pit for the cooler evenings.

He rested one arm on the back of the sofa and twisted to kiss her as he rested his other on her huge belly, laughing against her mouth when one of his daughters kicked at him. This was how they danced now, Susannah thought. This was the best dance of her life.

“When you tell Adonis stories of gods, do you mention that you were one?” she teased him.

Leonidas took the kiss deeper for a moment, letting her taste that hunger that had only intensified across all these full, bright years. And when he pulled back his smile had gone wolfish in a manner that boded well for the rest of the evening.

“That is a story he will appreciate more when he is older, I think,” he murmured. “When he has forgotten how much he looked up to me when he was small.”

He did not mention how little he’d looked up to his own father. He didn’t have to; it was obvious every time he did not beat his own son to a pulp. Every time he did not go off on a rampage and use his fists as punctuation.

Every time he did not have to try to love his son and his wife—he just did, and well, despite the lack of any parental role models in that area.

Because when Leonidas Betancur decided to do something, he did it well.

Susannah had stood beside him as he’d handled his mother these past years after he’d cut her off from the Betancur fortune, as promised. The world had watched Apollonia’s dramatic response to that, played out in as many tabloids as would listen to her tales of woe.

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