The Volakis Vows by Lynne Graham
Author:Lynne Graham [Graham, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472096968
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
Bride for Real
Lynne Graham
PROLOGUE
BRILLIANT dark eyes grim, Sander studied the photo of his wife, small and sexy in a scarlet evening gown and wrapped in another manâs arms.
He was disturbed to appreciate that he was in shock. The white heat of the rage that followed made him light-headed and scoured him inside like a cleansing flame, leaving him feeling curiously hollow. Robert Miller, well, that wasnât a surprise, was it? Sander had noted at the Westgrave Manor party two years earlier that Miller had wanted Tally the minute heâd laid eyes on her. Just as Sander had, once. But in spite of his simmering fury, Sander pushed the newspaper away with a careless hand and glanced at his watching father to say lightly like a practised card player hiding his hand, âSo?â
âWhen will you be fully free of her?â Petros Volakis demanded sourly, as if an estranged wife, whose new single life was being fully documented by the media, was an embarrassment to the family name.
âIâm free now,â Sander pointed out with a shrug, for although divorce proceedings still had a way to go, an official separation was already in place.
As his attention roamed involuntarily back to the newspaper lying close by he questioned the strength of his reaction to seeing Tally with someone else. They were getting a divorce. It should be no surprise that she was back on the social circuit. But, like a man forced to stand still while hot pitch was slowly dripped onto his skin, Sander was in torment. Why? Prior to their break-up Tally had brandished her indifference to Sander like a banner and he had assumed that no man could breach her barriers. The idea that another man might have succeeded where he had failed outraged and challenged him. âI donât see you featuring in the gossip columns the way you did before you married,â the older man remarked with more insight than Sander usually ascribed to him.
âIâve grown up,â Sander countered drily. âIâm also more discreet.â
âShe was a mistake but weâll say no more about it,â Petros commented, noting the hardening of his sonâs stubborn jaw line with a wary eye.
His lean, darkly handsome face uninformative, Sander had nothing to say, at least nothing worth saying. He marvelled that his parents, who had not even offered him sympathy on the death of his firstborn son, could think that any aspect of his marriage could be their business. But then, relations had long been chilly between Sander and his mother and father. His elder brother, Titos, the family favourite, had died in a tragic accident and, although it was only thanks to Sander that Volakis Shipping had since recovered from his brotherâs disastrous management, Sander was still being made to feel a very poor second-best in the son stakes. And now, all of a sudden, he was disturbingly conscious that his meteoric triumphs in business were in stark contrast to a frankly abysmal rating in his private life
Tally, in contrast, had moved on
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