The Renegade Billionaire by Rebecca Winters

Author:Rebecca Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

“WHAT THE HELL is going on?”

At the sound of his brother’s voice, Stavros lifted his head off the pillow. Something had to be wrong for his forty-year-old brother to fly all the way from Thessaloniki at this hour.

“Leon? What are you doing here?”

“You haven’t answered my phone calls all day,” he accused without preamble. “I got worried and flew here because it isn’t like you not to respond.”

“Take a breath and I’ll explain. Sit down, bro. How’s your family?”

“They’re fine.” Leon picked up the chair and put it at the side of the bed. They were alike in coloring, but his married brother was an inch taller and carried about thirty more pounds. He grinned. “Who’s the beautiful blue-eyed woman who opened the door wearing a pink-and-white-striped robe and a towel covering her hair?”

Well, well. That was a sight Stavros had yet to behold. “You mean she didn’t tell you?”

“No. She said she wasn’t anyone important and told me she was going to bed, would I lock up on my way out.”

Stavros let go with another burst of laughter.

“What’s so funny? Why are you in bed?”

He was glad Leon had come. The medicine had knocked him out earlier. Now he was awake and going crazy without Andrea’s company. “Why don’t you grab a beer from the fridge and then we’ll talk.”

“You don’t want one?”

“I can’t.”

“You’re not making sense.”

“The doctor told me no alcohol for a while.”

Leon’s brows met in a frown. He leaned closer to him. “I knew something had happened to you.”

“Would you believe I got stung by a stingray today? The pain was unreal. That unimportant person who answered the door saved my life.”

“Is she a nurse from the clinic? Is that why she’s here?”

“It’s a long story.”

“I’ve got the time.”

For the next little while, Stavros explained everything. But at the mention of PanHellenic Tours, Leon made a strange sound in his throat. “Wait just a minute. This Andrea is the blonde American woman who has Mother and Tina Lasso in fits? She speaks Greek like a native. I would never have guessed.”

“Try a dozen languages she’s mastered. Brains and beauty.”

“Despinis Linford is a knockout, all right. But she’s also one of the reasons I flew here to see you tonight.”

“I figured you had some bad news for me or you wouldn’t have come.”

“It’s serious, I’m afraid. Dad’s in a rage.”

“That’s old news. He knew I was forming my own company. My resignation was inevitable. My company is already a week into production.”

“I know, but it’s not just that, Stav. He expects you to do the right thing for Tina now that she’s pregnant.”

“If I’d ever loved Tina, I would have married her long ago. She’s bluffing, Leon. But in any case, I never slept with her, so it couldn’t be mine.”

“You and I both know that, but our father is beyond listening to reason. I came here to warn you. I overheard him tell Mother that if you don’t marry Tina, he’s going to prevent any more sales of the marble waste from our quarries to be sold to you.

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