The Spanish Tycoon's Takeover by Michelle Douglas

Author:Michelle Douglas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

XAVIER STOOD OUTSIDE of the doors of the Clover Fields Care Home on the outskirts of town the following Wednesday afternoon and eased a breath from his lungs.

If Wynne knew he was here... Well, she’d be far from pleased. But, regardless of what she thought, he had no intention of yelling at Aggie. He had a message to deliver. And then he would leave.

Once he’d done this, and the refurbishment on the motel was complete, he could return to Spain. The sooner that happened the better. He dug his fingers into the tight muscles of his nape, trying to shift the tension that had him wound up tight. Wynne and her treating everyone like members of a happy family was starting to get to him. It was all very pleasant, but it was still a fantasy. He had to leave before he started to believe in it.

Because, regardless of what Wynne said, she didn’t like him. She didn’t think he had a heart. She thought he represented everything that was the antithesis of the culture she’d created for the motel. Despite her smiles and her dinners and all her good humour and hospitality, her ‘happy family’ ethos didn’t include him. And that stung more than it had a right to. The problem was that she was so adept at creating that impression there were times when he was in danger of forgetting it was just a fantasy.

At least with Camilla he hadn’t been in danger of falling for a fantasy so far out of his reach.

And meeting Aggie today would help break that spell too.

Without giving himself any further time to think, he pushed through heavy double doors. Discreet enquiries had informed him not only of the name of Aggie’s nursing home, but her room number as well. He stood outside her door for a couple of moments before forcing his legs through the doorway.

An elderly woman glanced up from the bed, her eyes bright. ‘Do I know you, dear?’

She was tiny! He came to a dead halt and his heart started to pound. Bile churned in his stomach. He’d built Aggie up in his mind as some kind of Amazonian temptress without a heart. But the woman in the bed was so frail and...human. And old!

‘Are you my father?’

He stilled and a fist tightened about his chest. ‘No.’ He swallowed and cleared his throat. ‘I’m a...a friend of Wynne’s.’

‘Wynne?’ Her eyes clouded. ‘I don’t know anybody by that name.’

‘Your granddaughter?’

‘I have a granddaughter?’

He closed his eyes. Oh, Wynne. His heart went out to the younger woman for all she’d been silently suffering.

* * *

A familiar voice floated from Aggie’s room into the corridor and Wynne stopped dead a few steps short of the door.

Xavier!

She went to leap forward, but at the last moment forced herself back. She couldn’t go racing into Aggie’s room, grab Xavier by the throat and shake the living daylights out of him—no matter how much she might want to. It would upset

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