The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife by Annie West - The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife

Author:Annie West - The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife [West, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Man-Woman Relationships, Greeks, Married People, Contemporary, General, Millionaires, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780373820801
Google: DlSjk55Ht3cC
Amazon: 0373820801
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Stavros looked down at the woman before him and tried to seize control of his wayward imagination.

‘Are you just a tease? Or are you honest enough in this at least? Will you follow through with what you just offered and give me your body?’

Deliberately he lashed her with words that stripped this extraordinary attraction between them down to its most basic, brutal level. For, to his dismay, he discovered he was fighting himself as much as her.

He needed to dismiss the flood of emotion that threatened to drown him when he held her close and inhaled the sweet scent of her. To cut away the illusion that this was something different, special. That Tessa Marlowe was somehow unique.

Yet, despite his bluntness, his deliberate callousness, it wasn’t working. Still he was in her thrall, bound by the memory of her ripe sweetness and her clumsy eagerness.

No! It was a ploy. Her stock-in-trade. A trick to dupe him.

And yet his thoughts centred inevitably on the memory of that lush, seductive mouth opening for him, inviting him inside. Of the heady lust that had blasted through him from the moment he’d hauled her close and discovered just how delicious it was to hold her in his arms and hear her soft mews of pleasure. As he plundered her mouth in precisely the way he wanted to take her body. As he felt her undeniable response.

The primitive surge of ownership he’d experienced as he spanned her tiny waist with his hands had rocked him to the core. The soft, decadent caress of her waist-length hair had almost unmanned him.

He needed her so badly it was a physical ache. Even now. Even knowing what she was.

‘Don’t.’ The single word seemed torn from her, as if she was in pain. She closed her eyes as if she couldn’t bear to face him.

And he was the biggest fool of all for believing that, even for an instant. Hadn’t he learnt anything from his father’s mistakes? No way was he going to repeat them.

If only he had some defence against the feelings this woman aroused in him. If only he could relegate her to a simple legal and financial problem, instead of a living, breathing woman who insinuated herself into his brain, into his very bloodstream so that he could never be free of her.

Sto Diavolo! She even kept him awake at night with the hottest erotic dreams he could remember.

His voice was harsh with self-loathing as he continued. ‘But perhaps we should negotiate your terms first. That way there will be no misunderstanding when it comes time to settle your account.’

Her eyes snapped open, drowning emerald-green, to stare up at him with such a welter of emotion that it stopped him in his tracks.

He read anguish there. Pure, unadulterated pain so raw and real that something deep in his chest clamped tight in response, constricting his lungs till he could barely breathe.

Her skin paled and her mouth stretched into a taut line of suffering.

‘Tessa…’ The hoarse whisper was his, dragged from him as her pain reached out and lanced his body.

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