Proof of Their Forbidden Night by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw [Shaw, Chantelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474097994
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2020-02-20T18:20:58+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE HELICOPTER DIPPED low over an olive grove and the villa came into view. Andreas remembered the excitement he’d felt as a boy coming to Louloudi every summer when his boarding school in England broke up for the holidays. His mother hadn’t wanted him at the family home in Athens and he’d been glad to escape from her constant disapproval. Occasionally Stelios had spent a weekend on the island and Andreas had treasured those times that he’d had his father’s exclusive attention. But mostly Stelios had been preoccupied with work.

He rubbed his hand over the stubble on his chin. In three days’ time it would be the first anniversary of his father’s death. For the past year Andreas had fought to save Karelis Corp from being bought out by a rival company. It had been a hellish time and he was mentally exhausted, but at least the company was safe. Now he was determined to save Louloudi from falling into the hands of the most unscrupulous woman he’d ever had the misfortune to meet.

His jaw clenched. Ten months ago Isla had turned up at his office in Athens and announced that she was pregnant. Not unreasonably, he’d demanded proof of paternity before he would accept responsibility for the child she alleged was his. But her tears had stirred his conscience and he had asked himself why she would lie. It couldn’t be because she needed financial support for her child. Stelios had made provision for her in his will and she was due to inherit a fortune. Andreas had needed time to think, but when his meeting with a client had finished and he’d gone to find Isla, his PA informed him that she had already left.

He’d felt responsible for her, despite his suspicion that the child wasn’t his, and he had instructed his security team to search for her, to no avail. She had seemingly disappeared into thin air. The fact that she had not contacted him again seemed further proof that if she had been pregnant it wasn’t his child, Andreas brooded as he climbed out of the helicopter and walked across the lawn towards the house.

But he did not doubt that she would turn up on Louloudi to claim her inheritance. She wasn’t going to miss the chance to become a multi-millionaire and he would have to bite the bullet and buy her share of the island. He was confident that the powerful attraction he’d felt for her would have died. He had dated a few women, although he hadn’t had sex for a year. But he’d assumed that his lack of libido was down to his excessive workload. It was not because he subconsciously compared every woman he met to Isla, he assured himself.

He strode into the house and his vision was momentarily obscured while the lenses in his sunglasses transitioned from the bright light outside to the darker interior. He blinked—but the pram parked in the hallway was still there. Shock ricocheted through him until he remembered that Toula and Dinos’s daughter had been pregnant.

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