Modern Box Set 1-4: June 2022 by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2022-04-26T12:54:28+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

Valentin

FINALLY. FINALLY, AFTER ALL those months of planning, Olivia Wintergreen was mine.

But then, she always had been.

Her clear, light grey eyes had widened and I had been able to see the shock rippling over her pale, delicately featured face.

She’d assumed it was Constantine who’d taken her hand so naturally she’d be surprised to find it was me instead.

Her hand was cold, her fingers icy, and I remembered how she’d get cold after a swim in the sea, and I would take them in mine to warm them up. Once, I’d kissed the tips of her fingers and she’d laughed because it had tickled. She’d always had the most beautiful smile.

Except she wasn’t smiling now.

Not that I expected her to.

I’d let her think I was dead—I’d let everyone think I was dead—for the past fifteen years and so I hadn’t exactly anticipated being welcomed with open arms.

She certainly wouldn’t be happy when I got her back to my villa in the Maldives. But I’d deal with that later. Once she was there and safe, she’d have all the time in the world to yell at me.

First, though, I had to get her away from Constantine.

I’d planned this meticulously, right down to the very second I’d had my men cut the power, then I’d moved, crossing the space between us so it was my hand she’d grabbed in the darkness.

Me, leading her to safety.

I didn’t have time for explanations, not with Constantine’s security. I had to get her out of the mansion and with the least fuss possible before the confusion brought about by the power cut wore off and Constantine realised what had happened.

Yet even though I knew time was of the essence, for a second all I could do was stare at her, noting how changed she was.

She’d been fifteen the last time I’d seen her, all long, slender limbs and waist-length straight silver-blonde hair. A wildcat, yet with the sweetest smile I’d ever seen. My friend once, before she’d grown into something more.

She’d been so beautiful. The only thing I’d had in the hell of my childhood that had been mine.

Until Constantine had taken her from me.

Satisfaction was a cooling balm to the rage that had ignited inside me that moment six months ago when, during my daily press briefing, one of my staff had informed me that Constantine was now engaged to Olivia Wintergreen.

Well, he wouldn’t be engaged to her much longer.

Just as he’d no longer be inheriting Silver Incorporated.

He might have had a couple of years’ grace at being CEO if he hadn’t involved Olivia. But he had. And now he would have to deal with the consequences.

The fury I’d glimpsed in Olivia’s eyes just before I’d had the power killed leapt again, and she tried to jerk her hand away.

I tightened my grip. I didn’t want her running, not before I had a chance to secure her. I’d been forced to give her up all those years ago and I wasn’t going to let her be taken from me a second time.

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