Di Cesare's Pregnant Mistress by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw [Shaw, Chantelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

A STORM was brewing. The night air was hot and heavy and although the air conditioning was working flat out Bruno felt stifled inside the villa.

He couldn’t sleep—but what was new about that? he thought bitterly as he strode through the dark garden down to the pool. If he’d learned anything over the past few weeks it was that sexual frustration was not conducive to a restful night.

He had driven back to Florence at the beginning of the week—only hours after he had arrived at the villa—not trusting himself to remain under the same roof as Tamsin without wringing her neck or giving in to the hunger clawing in his gut and carrying her off to his bed. Common sense told him to forget her, get on with his life and, if necessary, sleep with as many women as it took to eject her permanently from his mind.

But to his disgust his common sense seemed to be in short supply—along with his customary needle-sharp business brain and the ruthless ambition that had earned him the respect of his company board members and the fear of his enemies. It had been a hellish week, and his secretary had been unable to disguise her relief when he had sent her home at six o’clock, telling her that he would be spending the weekend at the Villa Rosala should she need to contact him.

Muttering a profanity, he dived into the pool. The water was blessedly cool on his hot skin, and he swam until his muscles ached but were no longer knotted with tension. How could his cool, logical brain accept his initial suspicions about Tamsin and yet his body still crave hers with a carnal, shaming hunger? And how could it be that, despite knowing her for what she was, he missed her company? During their discussions about her designs for the villa he had found her to be intelligent and interesting, and every week he had secretly found himself looking forward to the weekends so that he could spend time with her.

So Tamsin was different from his usual diet of airhead socialites, he conceded, flipping over to float on his back while he stared up at the starless night sky. But she was no different from every other grasping, eye-on-the-main-chance woman who was attracted to his wealth as much as to him. Women like his father’s second wife.

Miranda had seen his father coming, he thought bitterly. She’d understood the vulnerability of a grieving widower and ruthlessly exploited his father’s loneliness—and he had been flattered by the interest of a beautiful woman so many years his junior, and fallen for her so hard that he’d been blinded to the glaring fact that she was only in love with his bank balance.

Every instinct Bruno possessed warned him that Tamsin was another Miranda. But he would not be another Stefano, he vowed. Tension gripped him once more and he began to slice through the water, completing lap after lap as he fought to exorcise her from his mind.

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