The Antonides Marriage Deal by Anne McAllister

Author:Anne McAllister [McAllister, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction, Series, Harlequin Presents
ISBN: 9780373125333
Amazon: B003AV6F4Q
Goodreads: 1515655
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

The woman was going to be the death of him—or at least of his better intentions!

Elias needed the whole weekend to recover his equilibrium, to stop remembering the taste of Tallie Savas’s lips, the softness of her body, the smoothness of her skin.

Well, he did remember. But for odd isolated moments now and then he managed to focus on something else.

It took some effort.

Saturday, as soon as he left Tallie’s apartment, he started working on the offices he was renovating. But that gave him far too much time on his own. Way too much opportunity to remember the way he’d spent the night—and how much more he’d wanted to do with Tallie that night.

And even reminding himself that he hadn’t wanted to do it because it was Tallie and it would have been a huge mistake didn’t give him reason enough to forget how much he’d enjoyed her touch, her kiss—her!

So he rang Dyson and woke him up. “You still want to show me that boat you’re having built?”

A trip out to Long Island to see Dyson’s pride and joy had been on the back burner too long. Dyson had invited him to come along to see it half a dozen times. But every time Elias had been too busy.

Now he heard Dyson yawn so loudly his jaw cracked. Then Dyson said, “Yeah. Pick you up in an hour.”

They spent the day at the boatyard, which made Elias remember how much he had loved building boats with his grandfather and how sidetracked his life had become. Thinking about the past gave him some respite from memories of Tallie in his arms.

But it also reminded him of other dreams he’d had—of a life split between Santorini and New York, of building boats for a living, of marrying a woman who would love the same things he did and the family they would have together.

It hadn’t happened the way he’d imagined. Not any of it.

And the memories of what he’d hoped for and what had actually happened made him surly.

“Not gonna bring you again,” Dyson said on the way home. “You been scowling all day long. You look like hell, too. What’d you do last night?”

“Nothing,” Elias said, staring out the window at the traffic heading into the city. It was the truth. He hadn’t done what he’d wanted to do for a long, long time.

It was his own fault, of course. No one had forced him to do any of it. No one had held a gun to his head and made him marry Millicent. No one had demanded he take over Antonides Marine and abandon his dreams of his own boat-building business.

And no one would have stopped him if he’d made love with Tallie Savas last night—least of all Tallie.

It was his own bloody misguided sense of doing what was right. He needed to get over it, get past it, get a life. If he had a woman, he wouldn’t be tempted by the likes of Tallie Savas.

So as soon as Dyson dropped him off, he rang Clarice.

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