His Merciless Marriage Bargain by Jane Porter

Author:Jane Porter [Porter, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

HE WAS CRUEL beyond measure. Rachel’s throat ached and her eyes burned. “I am nothing to you,” she said quietly. “I am as insignificant as a bug, or a twig on the ground. You have no problem stepping on me, crushing me.”

“That is not true.”

“But my life and my dreams, they do not matter, not when you compare my needs to yours.”

“I am responsible for a huge corporation. My decisions impact hundreds of people, if not thousands.”

“You believe what you’re saying, don’t you? You’re a demigod in love with your power.” She hoped he heard the scorn in her voice. She hoped he was offended, because she was disgusted and appalled. There was nothing about him she admired.

“You are so consumed with your business. It seems to be the only thing that matters to you.”

He leaned forward, narrowing the distance between them. “I have never put business before people. The various Marcello enterprises are made up of people, and not just my family, but hundreds of people, hundreds of loyal employees, and those people matter to me a great deal. The best businesses treat their employees like partners...family. Or, if you come from a seriously dysfunctional family, then hopefully you treat your staff better than family.”

He’d inherited his family’s business at a point when the company family seemed irreparably broken. The company was losing money, and his father had decided that he’d rather live with his mistress than his wife. Antonio was in America, working for a business that was not their own, determined to get as far from their father as possible.

Gio envied Antonio, because Gio couldn’t escape, not as the eldest, and he was surrounded by the family drama, ensnared in it as Father’s mistress was none other than his secretary, and the affair had been going on for years, with Father and secretary enjoying numerous “business” getaways and long private lunches behind locked doors.

Italians loved a good drama, especially when it was about sex and a beautiful young woman, a woman young enough to be Giovanni Marcello Senior’s daughter.

Gio knew but couldn’t convince his father to fire the secretary or end the relationship, nor would his mother divorce his father. Every day was grueling and Gio tried to focus on work, not wanting to be pulled into the middle of the family drama more than necessary. Gio, like his grandfather before him, had a sharp mind and a love for engineering and practical design. He disliked the endless conflict that had marked his childhood and adolescent years, and the only reason he’d agreed to work for Marcello Enterprises was because he loved the construction company his grandfather had founded.

But now, suddenly, the construction company, the Marcello holding company and even the family itself, was teetering on collapse. Gio was livid. He’d had enough, and he put his foot down. Either his father left, or he’d leave. That was all.

His father thought it was a joke, but Gio was furious that the company was being drained dry for selfish purposes when there were hundreds of employees that depended on the Marcellos.

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