The Greek's Acquisition by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780263891119
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LOUISE had travelled by private jet on a few occasions when her mother had been Kostas Kalakos’s mistress. As she glanced around the luxurious cabin of Dimitri’s plane she was reminded of how much Tina had relished the glamorous lifestyle she had enjoyed with her billionaire lover. Her mother had sold herself to the highest bidder, she thought bleakly. Tina had insisted she’d loved Kostas, but there was no doubt she had also loved his money.

Was what she was doing any better? Louise asked herself. The stark truth was that she had agreed to sell her body to Dimitri for one million pounds. He did not know and must never discover that she intended to use the money to save the life of the woman he hated and blamed for destroying his family.

She glanced at him, sitting beside her on one of the plush white leather chairs, and felt the familiar lurch of her heart as she studied his sculpted features. Would she have agreed to be his mistress if she hadn’t found him so attractive? The thought sat uncomfortably with her and she tried to blank it out and concentrate on the only reason why she was flying to Athens with him. Tina.

The journey had so far been effortless—Dimitri’s chauffeur-driven limousine had whisked them to the airport, where they had boarded his jet, and two impossibly elegant stewardesses had served them champagne as soon as the plane had soared into the sky. The signature of extreme wealth was everywhere—not simply in his material possessions but in the deferential way people treated him, Louise mused. She did not belong in Dimitri’s world, but for the next two weeks she would live with him and share his bed every night.

Nervous tension churned in her stomach. Part of her wanted to scream that she could not go through with it, that she was not a woman like her mother. But it was for her mother’s sake that she had agreed to Dimitri’s demands, and she would stick to her side of the deal because it was the only way she could give Tina a chance to beat the disease that threatened her life.

She tore her gaze from him to stare out of the window as the plane circled above Athens airport, unaware that her pensive expression was causing him to frown.

Despite her sophisticated clothes Louise looked young and curiously vulnerable, Dimitri brooded. He was reminded of the innocent girl Loulou, whom he had known years ago, and was momentarily assailed by doubts. Was she really a cynical gold-digger like her mother, or could he have misjudged her? Her agreement to be his mistress in return for a million pounds surely answered that question, he thought grimly.

‘We should land in five minutes.’

She made no comment and his irritation grew. ‘You’re very quiet. In fact you’ve barely spoken a word since we left Paris. What’s the matter?’

Louise refused to admit that she felt as nervous as hell. Through the window she could see the airport runway grow bigger as the plane descended.

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