Billionaire's Bride for Revenge (Billionaire?s Bride for Revenge) by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart [Smart, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE DRIVE BACK through the winding roads of Provence to his secluded chateau seemed to take hours rather than just twenty short minutes.

Benjamin had never known his veins to fizz as wildly as they were doing right then or been so aware of the heat of his skin. Freya stared out of the window beside him, her stillness absolute. Only the erratic rise and fall of her chest showed it to be nothing but a façade.

He could not believe how stunning she looked that day. Freya’s striking looks had turned into a beauty that had stolen his breath so many times he was surprised he had any oxygen left in his lungs.

She’d chosen to marry him in a simple white silk dress that floated to her ankles, with a lace bodice that sparkled under the sun’s rays held up by delicate spaghetti straps. On her feet were flat white sandals that suited the bohemian effect of the dress, her dark hair loose and falling in waves over her shoulders.

The dress she had chosen had hardly been a traditional wedding dress but it had been perfect for their wedding. It had proven her commitment in the vows she was making.

Benjamin had taken one look at her and wished he’d arranged for them to exchange those vows in his chateau garden under an archway adorned with flowers of all different scents and colours.

They had left the town hall as husband and wife and stood together at the top of the steps, the photographer’s lens trained on them exactly as Benjamin had instructed.

The sun’s rays had bounced over Freya’s skin and he had stared into eyes that were wide with trepidation, and felt that same dazzling punch in the guts he’d experienced the first time he’d set eyes on her. Just like that, the kiss he’d planned for the media’s delectation and Javier’s continued humiliation had seemed all wrong.

This was their wedding. Whatever the circumstances behind their vows, this was a commitment they were making to each other.

He didn’t want to think about his nemesis.

Instead, he had put an arm around her and drawn her to him so her cheek rested against his chest. She had trembled in his arms.

It had come to him then as he inhaled her scent with the photographer’s lens flashing at them why he needed their first kiss as husband and wife to be away from prying eyes...his need to possess Freya had become stronger than his thirst for revenge against Javier.

When he kissed her next, he had no intention of stopping.

‘The first time we drove this road together in the dark you had a can of pepper spray aimed at my face,’ he commented idly as his driver took them through his forest.

They were almost home.

She didn’t move her head from the window. ‘I wish I had used it.’

‘Do you think it would have changed the outcome between us?’

She raised a shoulder in a light shrug. ‘If I hadn’t left the hotel with you, if I had taken my chances at the airfield, if I had made a successful escape over your wall.

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