The World's Most Notorious Greek by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-23T13:25:21+00:00

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He’d been good the whole day. Right from the moment she’d stepped into the church and he’d watched her walk up the aisle to him, a vision in white and silver gilt.

The gown had been perfect, her hair a braided golden crown on her head, threaded through with flowers and covered by a silvery veil. His tall goddess now a fairy queen.

The cream of society had watched her marry him. In the church where his own parents had been married and where Ulysses had been christened. He’d been christened there too, but that had been before his parents had realised that he would never replace the boy they’d lost. That he didn’t measure up. That he was faulty.

His father had told him the night of his sixteenth birthday, after Achilles had handed him the scholar’s prize he’d won for his year, hoping to impress him, that it didn’t matter what marks he got. It didn’t matter how good at school he was, or how impressed his teachers were with him. None of that mattered. The only thing that did was that he was supposed to be Ulysses. Ulysses, who had been good at rugby and who’d loved going fishing with his father in the lake. Who had wanted to go hunting and who had already been learning how to use a rifle and was a crack shot.

Ulysses, who’d been good at everything that Achilles wasn’t.

That was the night that his father had also mentioned that the only reason Achilles had been born was to replace the son they’d lost. Ulysses was the heir, Achilles the spare. And the spare was all he’d ever be, because the heir had gone and nothing could replace him.

And that was also the night that Achilles had left Thornhaven with nothing but the clothes on his back and his passport. He’d gone to Greece, but not to find his mother—she’d died years earlier, and besides, it had been obvious what her choice had been the day she’d divorced his father and left without looking back. He’d wanted to get away from England, get away from his father and the constant hope that refused to die that one day his father would let Ulysses go. That Andrew Templeton would move on from his grief and love the son he had just as much as he loved the one who’d died.

But it was a hope that had never materialised and so he’d killed that hope stone dead.

He wanted to build his own life on his own terms, to not feel like a ghost haunting the rooms of his own house, pouring himself into filling a dead boy’s shoes.

But things had changed now. His father’s will had changed it, and now the woman meant for Ulysses was his, and he was going to make that true in every possible way there was.

He couldn’t wait. He’d been dreaming of this the whole week, of having her to himself. Of taking her here to his island and unleashing her fire.

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