The Greek's Penniless Cinderella by Julia James

Author:Julia James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-06-09T13:07:31+00:00

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Xandros stood out on his apartment’s balcony, staring at the floodlit Acropolis, not seeing it. He was hearing his own words echo in his head.

‘This was a mistake.’

His hands tightened over the railing. Thee mou, one hell of a mistake! It had taken all his strength to push her inside—keeping himself on the outside—and to turn and walk away, with every step wanting to turn around and stride back to her, to step inside her room and—

No! Don’t go there! Not even in imagination! Least of all that...

He took a shuddering breath. He’d been a rash and reckless fool to walk her back to her room—he should have resisted the temptation. But he hadn’t wanted to say goodnight quite yet. Had wanted to prolong the evening with her. Prolong it in a much more intimate way...

No! He was heading down dangerous paths again.

He clenched his jaw, exerting control over himself just as he had since that evening he’d allowed himself the sweet pleasure of greeting her with that all too brief and fleeting kiss. It had taught him that any contact with her would be like a match to tinder. That he must control himself, deny himself, until he had her all to himself.

As he would tomorrow.

Tomorrow night...the start of their honeymoon. The start of their marriage, when she would be his...

That low purring started up in him, so familiar to him now whenever he thought of the breathtakingly alluring woman who would soon—oh, so achingly soon now—be his entirely...

And until then...

He turned away, clicking shut the balcony doors and striding into his bedroom, stripping off his tie as he did so, slipping his cufflinks.

His eyes glinted. Until then the traditional remedy for thwarted passion was going to be very necessary.

He headed for the en-suite bathroom. Time for a cold shower. A very cold one...

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