Sicilian's Bride for a Price by Tara Pammi

Author:Tara Pammi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-08-13T17:12:49+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

IT SEEMED TO Dante that the universe or some karmic superpower was conspiring against him.

What he’d done with Ali, to Ali, in her bedroom, of all places... The memory of her flushed face, the image of her lush breasts in his hand, the sensation of those brown tips so hard on his tongue, the wildness of her body as she rocked into him and found her pleasure... Dios mio, it haunted him in the fortnight he’d spent in Tokyo on business.

Even in his dreams, Ali was there, taunting him, teasing him, the trusting smile on her lips, the raw desire in those eyes just as arousing as the invitation of her naked limbs.

Until he’d driven her to his flat that night, and bid her good-night at her bedroom door, he’d been terrified that she would refuse him. That he had crossed a line he never should have, that she wouldn’t forgive him for his seesawing behavior.

No trip had ever felt so long. Because he’d never had anything to come home to before.

When he’d returned late at midnight, she’d already been in her bedroom. Somehow, he’d buried the urge to knock, to check that she was really in there. Even though his security team had assured him that she was.

This morning, he had another important meeting with the shareholders. He canceled it.

There was a ruckus involving the Japanese firm and some miscommunication about production schedule and delivery dates between his team and their team. A ten-billion-dollar contract and thousands of new jobs hinged on the deal he had negotiated.

Instead of the usual urgency to smooth out the knots, all he felt was a strange tiredness for his job. Cristo, he’d been working nonstop for almost twenty years and this morning he wanted to damn it all to hell.

It had taken Izzy a few tries—at the end of which she’d remarked on his distracted mood—to tell him that all of his management team was sitting on tenterhooks, waiting for his wrath for such a major communications blunder. They were right, he didn’t tolerate sloppiness or inefficiency in himself, or his teams. They went through rigorous training and usually his employee base, especially the upper management team, were people who’d been with him for years. And if a mistake of this proportion had been made, the person responsible would have informed him of it immediately and taken corrective steps.

In the end, Dante had figured it out.

It was all Nitin’s doing. His petty little revenge was causing havoc. He had been attending meetings he hadn’t been invited to behind Dante’s back, promising to take the lead on communications and then dropping the ball, leaving some unsuspecting newcomer to take the fire all the while their Japanese client waited for an important communication. It was exactly the kind of games that had made Neel distrust his brother wholly, that had made him try to keep Nitin’s corporate decision-making ability severely limited.

That Dante had unequivocally taken a controlling stake in Matta Steel after acquiring Ali’s voting shares was a bitter pill for Nitin to swallow.

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