The Italian Boss's Mistress of Revenge by Trish Morey

Author:Trish Morey
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

‘What the hell was that all about?’

Dinner had concluded, a pleasant enough evening if one could ignore the simmering wariness that had marked the two battling sides. It was a pity it had been impossible to ignore it. Dante had been silent during the journey back to the hotel, striding through the lobby like a lion unleashed while she’d battled to keep up in his wake. Now he stood there, a glass of malt whiskey in one hand, leaning on the credenza with the other.

‘What was what about?’

‘That suggestion for collaboration—where did that come from?’

She shrugged, dropping her beaded bag onto the coffee table, and stretched her neck this way and that, trying to ease some of the tension that had gathered there in the last few hours. ‘I don’t know. It just seemed the logical thing to do. Quinn needs funds to upgrade an iconic boat–building business that’s missing out on contracts because it can’t retool, given you’ve put a stop on finance—and meanwhile you merely want to turn the land into some kind of waterfront-apartment desert. Why not build something bigger than just another set of apartment buildings, something that builds on and also preserves a business that’s been part of the harbour-front for the better part of a century?’

‘I’m not in the business of boat building.’

‘Tell me something I don’t know. You’re so obviously not in the business of building anything!’

‘That’s garbage. I’ve built an entire fortune. From nothing!’

‘To what end? So you can pull down and destroy every iconic property you can lay your hands on? How many hotels have you already destroyed?’

‘I built on those sites—’

‘What—more of your characterless concrete apartment-blocks? That wasn’t building. That was merely sticking band-aids over the scars you’d left behind. And now you’ve got both Ashton House and Quinn Boatbuilding lined up in your sights.’

‘Ashton House has got nothing to do with Quinn Boatbuilding!’

‘Hasn’t it? You seem so determined to destroy everything you touch—’

‘Did you hear me? I said nothing!’

She blinked, wondering at the raw emotion she saw behind his eyes, the depths of emotion that lay behind that statement, wondering what it meant for her quest. ‘Which means what, exactly? How are they different, then?’

He turned away. ‘Believe it. They are.’

She took a reluctant step closer, wanting to know. Needing to know. ‘I don’t understand.’

‘And I don’t understand why you made that suggestion to Quinn in the first place. I expect more from someone who’s supposed to be on my team.’

‘I was on your team until you made me redundant, remember? Now I’m working on my team, to get what I want.’

‘And what is it you want—to undermine my negotiations when they’re already at a critical stage?’

‘You know damn well what I want. To stop you destroying Ashton House. To make you see the madness of doing so.’

He shook his head slowly from side to side as he came closer, the look on his face coldly triumphant. ‘No, it’s not. You like to think you’re here for some noble reason, but I know what you really want.

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