The Kouros Marriage Revenge by Abby Green

Author:Abby Green [Green, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Greeks, Contemporary, Businessmen, Shipping, Arranged Marriage, Revenge
ISBN: 9780373127597
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

to the rat race was undergoing a bit of a bashing. For a long moment they just looked at each other and then it was broken when an amorous couple who weren’t looking where they were going bumped into them. Alexandros welcomed it.

‘There’s a restaurant around the corner. It’s owned by a friend, one of the partners who redeveloped the area.’

Only trusting herself to nod, Kallie could feel herself starting to open up, despite her best efforts. She had to fight the shifting sands around her feet, around her feelings. She knew that Alexandros had a much more powerful weapon at his disposal for revenge. She knew she could not be hurt the same way again. Because this time she wouldn’t survive.

Kallie looked around the restaurant again. Holding her back so straight, being on her guard was exhausting. Like her seesawing emotions. One minute she’d feel herself start to open, like a flower turning towards the sun, the next she’d remember and close up. Alexandros was so much harder to handle when he was. . Kallie had been about to say nice to herself, but he wasn’t even being particularly nice, he was being polite, civil and she was like a pathetic mouse, picking up crumbs.

The dinner had been exquisite, the surroundings beautiful. They’d been treated like royalty since they’d arrived. But this see-sawing wouldn’t stop. As if a force bigger than her was playing with her like a puppet on a string. What made it even harder was that their conversation hadn’t strayed into any danger areas and she’d found herself genuinely enjoying talking to him. She felt herself relaxing, ever so slightly. Laughing even, albeit briefly, at one point and it felt so good after the weeks of tension and pressure.

Dessert had just been delivered. Kallie took a spoonful of ice cream and savoured the way it slipped down her throat.

For some reason she’d never felt the experience of eating ice cream before as sensual but, sitting opposite Alexandros, she had to concede that she’d never ever been so aware of every thing.

He brought her back to earth and showed her how he patently wasn’t half as affected as her when he asked, ‘You mentioned that your father took your mother’s life in the crash?’

She put down her spoon and nodded warily. She had? Why had he remembered that? She looked at him for a long moment, focused on his eyes. There was no apparent malice there.

She shrugged lightly. ‘You remember what he was like. , always the bon vivant.’ She avoided his eye now, playing with her spoon. ‘After ya ya died, things got worse with the company. He never had time to go back to Athens and he just started drinking more and more.’

She sighed deeply, the grief not far from the surface as she remembered. ‘That day. .that day he’d accepted the fact that he had to get help. But he wanted one more drink. . and he wouldn’t let Mum drive. .’

Her mouth thinned when she thought of her father’s typical macho Greek bluster.

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