Harlequin Romance: April 2022 Box Set by Sophie Pembroke

Harlequin Romance: April 2022 Box Set by Sophie Pembroke

Author:Sophie Pembroke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00


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Nikos pulled the car to halt in front of the Georgian manor house his maternal grandfather had gifted to his daughter as a wedding present, and glanced across at the sleeping woman beside him.

With her face in repose, the pallor of MJ’s skin and the dark circles under her eyes that the force of her personality and ever-present humour had masked were now evident. As he stared at her, something in his chest shifted. MJ’s worry for her sister was no longer academic, but a real and vital concern.

Ice crept across his skull. What was wrong with Siena? And what kind of mess had Christian landed himself in?

They were questions he hoped to find the answers to by day’s end. A glance at the clock on the car’s dashboard informed him there were still a few hours left. And sitting here staring at MJ wasn’t going to help him find the answers.

He doubted she’d thank him for letting her sleep, and he had no intention of carrying the damn woman into the house. An armful of warm, sleepy MJ...

He cut the thought dead.

Reaching across, he went to touch her forearm, but halted. Her arm was bare...and in her lap. Too close to her legs, breasts and things he didn’t want to accidentally brush if she moved. Instead he gave her shoulder a soft shake—a shoulder covered in the cotton of her slightly silly, holiday vibe T-shirt—but even the brief touch had her warmth filtering from his fingertips into his bloodstream and told him how delicate and fine were the bones there.

Her eyes opened and she blinked a few times before glancing at him. And then she smiled. The force of it punched the breath from his body.

Her smile wasn’t a sultry, seductive invitation. There were no come-hither overtones. It was simply her default expression.

And it was the sexiest thing he’d ever seen.

‘We’re here.’ The words croaked from him.

She straightened, stretched. ‘What time is it?’

‘Four-thirty.’

‘Wow, we made good time.’ She turned to the house and stilled. ‘It’s beautiful.’ She glanced back at him. ‘This is where your mother lives, isn’t it? Is she nice?’

‘So many questions.’ His words were meant as an admonishment, but that was not the way they emerged. He shook himself. ‘Of course my mother is nice. Why do you ask? Unfortunately—’ or perhaps he should have said ‘fortunately’ ‘—she’s not here at the moment.’ His mother was currently living in New York with her second husband.

‘Well, that’s a shame. I’ve met your father and Christian, of course, but never your mother.’

She wouldn’t have. His mother shunned London. She spent as much time away from England as she could. He frowned. Was MJ really ignorant about what had happened eighteen years ago? Did she really not know about the torrid affair between her father and his mother...and the painful fallout that had resulted?

She pushed out of the car as if she was looking forward to stretching her legs, checking her phone as she did so. ‘Has



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