Sexy Single Plus Bonus NovellaStranded, Seduced...PregnantThe Italian Billionaire's Bride by Trish Morey

Author:Trish Morey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742789668
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release

CHAPTER ELEVEN

IT WAS no surprise that several of the figures who emerged from the vehicles wore uniform. What was less expected was the distinctive blue hair of one who was not in uniform.

Beside him Neve suddenly yelled loudly, ‘Hannah! It’s Hannah!’ And a moment later began to pelt across the snow-covered field towards their rescue party.

The identity of that figure was no longer a mystery.

Smiling to himself, Severo followed, slowing his pace deliberately to give them a few moments alone for what was bound to be an emotional reunion.

As he got closer it was clear that emotions were running high—extremely high!

He saw Neve move in for a hug only to be shoved away by her stepdaughter, who towered a good five inches over her.

‘This is all your fault!’ the girl yelled. ‘If you’d let me go to France with Emma none of this would have happened, but no, you had to make me spend the holiday with you because you’re only happy when you’re making me miserable!’ She burst into noisy tears that stopped temporarily when she screamed, ‘I really wish you’d died in the snow.’

‘Hannah, I’m sorry.’

Severo, who had been standing there willing Neve to do or say something to reprimand her stepdaughter, was stunned.

‘Oh, drop the act, why don’t you?’ the girl jeered. ‘They’re all on your side now, so you can relax and be yourself—a total bitch!’

Severo’s jaw tightened as he watched Neve flinch and bite her quivering lip. He found it totally extraordinary that she made no attempt to remonstrate with the child or even defend herself from the accusations.

‘Go on, cry, that’ll really get you the sympathy vote,’ Hannah sneered.

It was the last straw. The girl had lost her father, but it did not in his eyes excuse her outrageously rude and vicious manner.

Neve was amazed to see Severo walking towards her. The truth was she had fully expected to see him walking in the opposite direction, or even running!

And who could blame him?

She doubted any man expected to meet a girl one day and then be dragged headlong into the middle of an ugly family drama the next!

What was he doing? Neve wondered, watching as he stopped a few feet short of the angry teenager. Hannah, noticing his protective stance beside Neve, rounded on him.

‘Ask her—ask her if she ever loved him and see what she says.’ She turned back to Neve and screamed, ‘If he hadn’t been James Macleod you wouldn’t have looked at Dad twice! Do you think that I didn’t always know that you married him for his money? Only you didn’t expect to get stuck with me as well, did you?’

Neve, who knew the girl was hitting out in her pain, allowed the accusations to pass over her head, but she could not allow the final quivering claim to pass unchallenged.

‘I have never felt I was stuck with you, Hannah,’ she said quietly. ‘I know what it’s like to lose your parents. I just want to be your friend.’

‘Friend? Like I’m ever going to be that desperate.

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