In Too Deep--A Holiday Fling Romance by Taryn Belle

Author:Taryn Belle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-06-18T15:59:24+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

FOR ALEX, sleep would not come. Beside him in their honeymoon suite bed, Nicola slept peacefully with her back curled into him. He disengaged his arm from under her neck and flipped onto his back, staring up at the ceiling in the dark.

What the hell was he going to do?

Alex had figured out who Nicola was the first night they slept together. As he lay staring at her face, her vague familiarity had finally clicked into place. So why hadn’t he said anything to her?

Because it was awkward. Since she hadn’t mentioned it, he got that it wasn’t something she wanted to lay out on their first date—or whatever you wanted to call that first crazy night together. He’d opened the door by throwing the Google question out to her, just in case she felt like talking about it. It had been clear from her reaction that she wasn’t ready, and that was okay. He trusted she would tell him in her own time.

Last night Alex’s reaction to her admission had been truthful—he really didn’t care. Alex was a man who believed in forming his own opinions about people rather than letting their reputations cloud his vision. He considered himself a good judge of character, an assertion that had nearly always proven correct in both his business and personal lives. And now once again he’d been right, but not only about Nicola.

John Brissoli. Alex had known he was a slippery snake just from their brief communications, but it was only when he was standing between Brissoli and Nicola at the party that he made a horrible connection in his head.

Nicola had been a victim of the paparazzi. And Brissoli’s website, Star*ucker, specialized in taking celebrities—and any civilians that happened to be along for the ride—down for the count. And to make matters even worse, if memory served Alex correctly, it was Star*ucker who had first released the sex tape featuring Nicola’s blurred face.

Standing there, Alex had realized there was no way he could admit to Nicola that he’d known who she was. She’d figure out that he was on the island to buy Brissoli’s company, and then she’d show him the door before he could say “huge fucking regret.” Worse, she might even think he was only showing interest in her so he could squeeze some new info out of her.

So he’d let her tell him the whole story as if he didn’t have a clue. It had damn near broken his heart, especially the bit about her family, but by the time she got to that part Alex had been too distracted by something else she’d mentioned to be fully present.

Celebrity Life. It was produced by one of the many companies his family’s conglomerate, Echelon Media Holdings, owned.

Nicola would fucking hate him.

He should have told her right then and there, come clean exactly like she just had, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Every excuse in the book had rolled through his head—that she was already

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