The Giannakis Bride by Catherine Spencer

Author:Catherine Spencer [Spencer, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781426816628
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

He regarded her solemnly. “So soon? Are you sure?”

“Yes, I’m sure.”

“You’ve really thought it through?”

“I’ve really thought it through,” she confirmed, somewhat disconcerted by his measured response. She’d expected a little more enthusiasm. Unbridled ecstasy, even. After all, picking up where they’d left off four years earlier had been his suggestion, not hers.

“In case I haven’t made it clear,” he said, holding her in his serous gaze, “I’m not looking for an affair. I want you as my wife.”

As proposals went, this one left something to be desired, enough that she looked at him blankly, wondering if she hadn’t heard him correctly. “Your what?”

“My wife, Brianna. As in Kyria Dimitrios Giannakis.”

No mistaking it, this time. He couldn’t have made himself any clearer if he’d had it emblazoned in gold on his forehead.

Elation fizzed through her veins, heady as champagne. Dimitrios, her husband? She’d buried that particular dream a long time ago, yet here it was, resurrected from the ashes. A modern-day miracle.

If something sounds too good to be true, Carter’s voice whispered in her head, just as it had often enough in the past, take care, because it probably is. Look for the hidden agenda, Brianna. Don’t be so ready to take everything at face value.

But she turned a deaf ear. He’d been referring to business; to the dog-eat-dog world of international modeling. This was different. This was about matters of the heart. About love and commitment. What for so long had seemed a hopeless fantasy had suddenly turned into a reality, and she wanted to jump up and dance with sheer happiness. She wanted Dimitrios to catch her in his arms and swing her off her feet and smother her in kisses.

Instead he remained seated, spelling out his terms with the uncompromising exactitude he no doubt brought to his corporate acquisitions.

Except…she wasn’t a corporate acquisition. Was she?

Her skin prickled as if a cold wind had drafted up her spine. Reining in her initial uprush of delight, she said, “I wouldn’t have it any other way, Dimitrios. I’m really not interested in being your live-in mistress.”

“You’ll be taking on a husband with a ready-made family, not to mention a new country and a whole new life that leaves no room for your celebrity career. I want more children, Brianna, and I expect my wife to be a hands-on mother.”

“Well, just in case I haven’t made it clear to you,” she retorted, adopting an equally direct manner, “I consider being a wife and a mother far more of a career than walking the runways of Milan and Paris. But while you might not hold that world in very high regard, let me point out in its defense that it taught me a lot about dedication, patience, and self-discipline. As I see it, they’re qualities which should meet your exacting standards at the same time that they stand me in very good stead as a wife and mother.”

His beautiful, sexy mouth twitched. “Yes, ma’am! If I spoke out of turn, consider me well and truly chastised.

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