Risking It All: London Calling Book Three by Kat Faitour

Author:Kat Faitour [Faitour, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kat Faitour
Published: 2016-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

SEBASTIAN KNEW EXACTLY who Madeleine Price was.

In addition to her face and body gracing every major magazine, she’d been a fixture on the runways of Milan and Paris. At one time, he nearly made contact to attend a show together.

But she disappeared from the fashion scene, suddenly and entirely. After a brief bout of disappointment, Sebastian chalked it up to fate. It was all too likely she fell victim to drugs, alcohol, or any of the countless vices he saw on display in Europe’s elite social circuit.

Yesterday, when he looked up to see her sitting alone at the restaurant, desire fought a brief but losing war to disappointment. She was still stunning, possibly even more gorgeous with the passing years. With the plump skin from childhood all but gone, her facial bone structure stood out, lending a haunting loveliness. The bright red hair had also matured. Brilliant like a sunset, the russet waves twined and curled down her back, long and lovely.

As a lover of beauty in all its forms, Sebastian consoled himself with the fact she glowed with good health. Whatever suddenly ended her skyrocketing career must surely be in the past. If only she hadn’t showed up in Jersey, he might have been interested in meeting her.

There was no way to know for certain, but Sebastian encountered far too many women for far too many years who set their sights on him as their next great opportunity. Filthy rich, single, and counting his years in the thirties, he recognized he was a good catch. His parents, healthy and happily matched, still served as the best example for what a good marriage offered.

Generational wealth combined with successful business expansion made Sebastian the target of financial predators his entire life. He absently rubbed his chest, remembering one particularly painful effort to make him into a meal ticket.

No matter. Whether Madeleine Price set her sights and followed him to Jersey or she was only there by coincidence, it was clear he caught her eye. She tried, not very adequately, to hide her interest in him at the restaurant.

He couldn’t have that. Not now, when things were at such a delicate point with the work he was doing alongside Angeline. A meeting had been set up here, and if luck held, they’d make their biggest breakthrough in years.

The people they were dealing with were easily spooked. Worse, they were dangerous. No matter what her intentions toward him, Ms. Price didn’t deserve to be mixed up in that kind of mess.

He stood up and stretched, bare chested and broad in the sunlight reflecting off his lap pool. Barefoot and wearing only a loose pair of cargo shorts, he popped the button and let them drop to the ground. Magnificently naked, he dove in the water and immediately set a brutal pace swimming the butterfly.

He could better think in open spaces, an old holdover from his childhood. London was a challenge he suffered, as it was ideal for meeting the right people and setting the stage for his important work.

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