Bartered to the Sheikh & Rakanti's Indecent Proposition by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.clareconnelly.com
Published: 2019-06-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

He had been right.

Dressed in his boxers and shirt she looked absolutely beautiful. But she wasn’t. She was a manipulative bitch. Having seen the texts for himself, he felt very little tug towards her. Christos was great at that too – switching off. When something ceased to please or interest him, he simply turned his attention elsewhere. After all, what was the point in mourning something that was no longer an option.

He watched as she padded into the kitchen, her face a study in innocence as she took the seat opposite him.

“Déjà vu,” she remarked with a smile. But even her smile he mistrusted.

How much money did she want from him? And why?

“We should talk.” He placed two pieces of toast onto a plate and handed it to her, then nodded towards a tray of spreads.

“Should we?” She bit down on her lip. Another gesture designed to portray innocence when she was anything but. “But we’ve discovered other things are much more stimulating.”

“Mmm,” he nodded. “True.”

He sipped his coffee, waiting for the throbbing rage to calm itself. “It’s funny. I almost felt like you were looking for me last night,” he said, his eyes boring into hers with the incisive attention he was renowned for in the boardroom.

He saw the way her pupils dilated and her cheeks flushed with the smallest hint of colour; the way her lips tightened momentarily and her fingers fidgeted with the knife. “Maybe I was,” she said with a shrug. It was an entirely too-clever answer, designed to evade the question, tell him nothing, and it wasn’t actually a lie.

“Did you know I would be there?”

She licked her lower lip and pretended to concentrate on spreading jam over the toast. “That’s … a little arrogant, isn’t it?”

“Not if it’s correct.” He crossed his arms over his chest, his whole body vibrating with disgust now. How had he fallen for it? He was so careful when he took women to bed! He chose women who were wealthy and high-profile, women who were looking for a quick romance and wanted nothing more from him. Women who were as well-served by discretion as he was.

“I heard kómma was the place to be in Athens. I wanted to see it for myself.”

It was all a lie. Why didn’t he see it last night? She wasn’t the kind of woman who’d flock to the latest nightspot. “You were so quick to find me, though. So quick to invite yourself to my home.”

Elle was flushed with fear. Something had changed. He was vastly different. There was a scathing condemnation in his tone that was at odds with his earlier behaviour. “And you were quick to invite me here,” she said off-handedly.

“Yes. As you knew I would be.”

“If you say so.” She crunched down on a corner of the toast but tasted nothing. Fear had spiked adrenalin into her mouth.

“Do you do this often?”

Was that it? Was he jealous?

“No.” She tilted her head to one side. “Not really.”

His face was pale beneath his tan and she realised that he was keeping a tight rein on his temper.

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