His Cinderella's One-Night Heir_Mills & Boon Modern by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, contemporary, Billionaires
ISBN: 9781474088138
Google: Lk-DDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-08-08T02:16:36+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

DANTE STUDIED BELLE at breakfast and almost smiled.

She was half-asleep because he had kept her awake half the night. A tinge of guilt infiltrated him as he noticed the shadows below her eyes, the faint slump of her small shoulders. He was a demanding bastard and he knew it but every time he looked at her, he got hungry again. It had never been like that for Dante before. Usually after several encounters he was cooling off and on the way to the exit, but inexplicably Belle kept him coming back for more. He wasn’t going to worry about it though, because in another couple of weeks even her originality would have worn off. He liked his own space, hugged his privacy and would, undoubtedly, be glad to reclaim it, which put him in mind of the room he had had prepared for her.

He brushed aside the newspapers he had yet to open. ‘Belle?’ he murmured. ‘I want to show you something.’

Belle blinked and set down her tea, rising slowly by dint of bracing her hands on the arms of her chair. He was probably about to give her that tour of the palazzo he had promised, which they hadn’t got around to the night before. She ached all over as if she had overdone it at the gym and she had a love bite on her neck. She had toyed with the idea of covering it up with a silky scarf and then had wondered if that uncool bruise was yet another deliberate part of his act to make them look like a more convincing couple.

Dante threw wide a door, and she stepped in and understood then. This was to be her room, furnished with the antiques he had bought and still a little bare, but the seat and the books and the promise of privacy were inviting. A wall of glass doors overlooked the internal courtyard, which was an ordered but highly attractive Italianate garden with box-hedged beds. Most of the plants were evergreen and the only colour of flower was white.

‘This was once my uncle’s office. He liked to be able to walk round the garden when he was working,’ Dante told her.

And it was a beautiful room and an even more beautiful garden but it daunted her that she was only to be in his life for a couple of weeks and yet he still apparently felt the need to give her a room of her own. Strikingly, not her own bedroom but a room to which she could retreat when...when what? Maybe it was just a room she was to use as part of their couple pretence, she told herself urgently. Even so, it was hard to ignore the message he was giving her. He had to be a man who set a high value on his own privacy, had possibly even worried that she would be under his feet all the time when he was around. She would use the room as much

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