The Millionaire's True Worth by Rebecca Winters

Author:Rebecca Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

RAINA TURNED AROUND and trod water while she watched Akis coming after her like a torpedo at high speed. While his strong arms cleaved the water, his powerful legs kicked up a fountain.

Her heart raced madly as he came to a stop in front of her and raised his dark head. She could never get enough of just looking at him. “I feel like a happy little girl who’s finally out of school for the summer and has all day to play.”

“Except that you don’t look like a little girl. Do you have any conception of what kind of a problem that presents for me?”

The tremor in his voice told her what he was holding back through sheer willpower. ‘It’s not exactly easy for me, either. I’ve come out to play with a man.”

Lines darkened his features. “How many men have been in your life?”

“You mean ones who were important?”

“Yes.”

She might as well get it all said now. “There were two. Before Byron, there was a graduate assistant teaching my math class during my freshman year. He held seminars for the most promising students and has since become a professor at a west coast college.”

“What drew you to him?”

They swam around in circles, always facing each other. “His smarts. He had a different way of looking at a problem to solve it. I envied him that gift. He fed my ego by telling me I’d inherited my father’s mathematical mind.”

“Why didn’t that relationship go anywhere?”

“I didn’t find out he was married until I’d been dating him for a month.”

“Did you sleep with him?”

“No. I was waiting for marriage.”

“Raina...” She heard a tortured sound in his voice.

“It was over a long time ago. He didn’t wear a wedding ring. At the end of the term I went to see if my grade had been posted. The head of the math department called me in and asked me if I knew Rod was married. I felt the blood rush to my feet. After I got my second wind, I thanked him for the information.”

“What did you do?”

“Rod had a cubicle down the hall. We’d planned to go out to dinner that evening. I dropped in on him. He assumed I wanted to check on the time. I told him to do his wife a favor and take her out to dinner instead. And I added one more thing. I wouldn’t be putting in a good word for him at the jet propulsion laboratory. Then I walked out and shut the door. That was the end of it.”

A grimace darkened Akis’s face.

“I made the same mistake with Byron by putting him on a pedestal. He was a published writer who’d traveled to Europe to do art research for more books. I admired someone so intelligent and well-read. He was older and had knowledge on so many subjects. The fact that he wanted to do my great-grandfather’s story was a huge plus.

“We could talk for hours about the art we loved. I thought we’d never run out of things to discuss.

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