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MARRYING MY BEST FRIEND'S FIANCEE Chapter 342
Chloe didn’t prepare for bed once she got back to the suite. Instead she changed into the denims she had worn to travel over in earlier today and a fitted black T-shirt before moving to sit curled up in the window seat in the sitting room, wrapping her arms around her bent knees as she stared sightlessly out of the window and prepared to sit and wait for Gregorio to return from the party.She had realized Gregorio was right as she’d flung the seductive black dress back into her suitcase—with an inward vow never to wear it again!—and they did need to talk. And the sooner Gregorio accepted that she wouldn’t enter into an affair with him, the better it would be for both of them.Although, again, she knew Gregorio was going to be very hard to resist if he should attempt to seduce her into capitulating.Chloe had never imagined, never imagined that loving someone, especially Gregorio, could be so completely, so emotionally consuming that she couldn't seem to think of anything else but him.
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But knowing that Chloe wanted him physically and that she responded to his kisses and caresses did not mean that she felt anything else for him but desire. And even that desire could not persuade her into going to bed with him.He looked up at her, his dark gaze intense on the pale beauty of her face in the moonlight. "Can you deny that you like my hands on your body, Chloe?" he probed.She swallowed hard, her green eyes haunted. "I haven’t tried to deny it, Gregorio." She sighed. "I’ve simply told you that I won’t have an affair with you.""Yes, I believe you have made it very clear that you do not have any room in your life for "a rich Sicilian playboy who might have decided he wants to hop in and out of your bed whenever he happens to be in London"!" Gregorio barely acknowledged it.The fact that Gregorio remembered what she had said earlier told Chloe that her remark must have hit a raw nerve. But why should it have been done? She was no more conversant with affairs than she was w
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Chloe looked up fearfully from where she lay face-down on the bed as she heard the bedroom door open and then close. Her vision was too blurred by tears for her to be able to see anything more than the silhouette of Gregorio’s tall, imposing figure as he approached.She knew she wouldn't be able to handle another assault on her emotions, that she loved Gregorio too much.The bed sagged slightly as he sat beside her, reaching out to turn her over, luring her into his arms and burying his face in her hair.Chloe's arms instinctively moved up around his shoulders, and she clung on tight."Please understand that I just can’t do this, Gregorio!" she sobbed as she burrowed her face against the hardness of his chest. "I wish that I could—you’ve no idea how I wish that I could be one of those women who would be happy to take the affair, the living together, that you’re offering!" she admitted emotionally. "But I can’t!" "You see, I’ve never—I haven’t ever—I’d probably be a terrible disappointm
MARRYING MY BEST FRIEND'S FIANCEE Chapter 345
"No, that would never be true of a child we had together, Gregorio," she assured him. "Our children will be an affirmation of our love for each other, Gregorio, not a threat to our own relationship," she told him shyly.Gregorio became very still as he stared down at her, as he looked deep into those expressive green eyes and saw—as he saw...He drew in a sharp breath, his hands tightening against her cheeks as he looked down at her wonderingly. Do you adore me, Chloe...He breathed softly, hardly daring to believe it could be true."I love you, Gregorio," she confirmed, her eyes starting to glow as her hands moved up to tightly clasp his arms. "I love you so much that I’m as terrified as you obviously are," she admitted. "Gregorio, do you think two people like us—two people who, for various reasons, have avoided love their entire lives—could possibly find happiness and love together...?"Gregorio breathed deeply, his heart beating rapidly in his chest. "I think—I know—that we are perf
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‘Cassia, you have to tell him you love him tonight. If you don’t, he’ll never know. You’re going home in two days, next year you’ll be at college or working…this is it, your last chance to tell Calix how you feel.’Cassia’s arms were gripped by her older cousin, Lyra, her dark face close to Cassia’s, her eyes fervent. In some dim part of herself, she did wonder at that moment why Lyra cared so much about this. and stifled the thought, feeling mean. Hadn’t Lyra been her confidante, having had to listen to her wax lyrical about Calix for years on every summer holiday? She was only helping her.Nerves made her voice shaky. ‘But, Lyra, I haven’t seen him in ages, he’s always in Athens now…’ She shivered. And a little remote. Which he’d never been before…Lyra shook her head emphatically. ‘Doesn’t matter. He’s always had a soft spot for you. He’s exactly the same, the only difference now is that he’s loaded.’Cassia gulped. And much more mature... he's going to laugh at me."Cassia, come o
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‘Cassia…why did you come out here? You should go back, it’s getting dark.’She looked at him, hurt in her eyes. ‘I just… I don’t mind just sitting here with you.He groaned softly and ran hands through his hair. ‘Sorry. I’m just…not the best company tonight.’She laid a hand on his arm, and looked at him. ‘Do you want to talk about it?’He stared at her for a long time, causing something to coil deep within Cassia's abdomen, something alien and tight...hot.He seemed to be fighting an inner battle, struggling with something. Then it passed. She held her breath as he reached out a hand and caught a lock of her hair, letting it slide through his fingers."Your coloring is amazing, do you know that?"Cassia grimaced, felt like squirming under his gaze. ‘It’s horrible. I burn too easily. I blush too easily.’And I’m too fat.Every insecurity rose up all too easily.He shook his head. "No, you’ve got your mother’s coloring." "A classic English rose...""That’s why my father says he fell in
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When Cassia woke up the next morning, the tight ache in her chest didn’t seem to have dissipated one bit and she had the horrible sensation of thinking it could have all been a bad dream, but of course it hadn’t. Her only consolation was that she knew Calix would probably be in Athens, and that she was due to go back to England the next day. She prayed Calix would stay in Athens till she was gone. And that no one would ever know what had happened. Except them. And Lyra. Who at least, Cassia thought with a shudder of relief, hadn’t witnessed her humiliating efforts.However, she came downstairs to noise, confusion, and commotion, with her parents and Calix in the middle of it all. Her father was shouting at him, thrusting a newspaper in his face."How could you?" We trusted you. She’s seventeen, for God’s sake. little more than a child. Isn’t it enough that you’re getting married to one of the most beautiful women in Athens? "You had to mess around with Cassia."They didn’t see her com
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Seven years later, The Ritz Hotel, ParisCalix Petrakis was bored. It was like a heavy mantle around his shoulders. a black cloud that spread outwards from his very depths, pervading everything. He was oblivious to the fact that he was surrounded by opulence. The opulence that came with being one of the wealthiest men in the world, in one of the world’s most exclusive hotels Hushed whispers encircled him. He tuned them out, the superlatives bouncing off him. They’d surrounded him for years, but he’d never courted them or needed any assurance.So young and so handsome!The most successful shipping magnate since Onassis... Even more money... Most eligible bachelors...Now the constant murmurs that followed him wherever he went only added to the ennui he felt. He’d achieved a pinnacle of success attained by just a very few and only imagined by most. And it had been hard won, which should make it all the more sweet. But was this it? How could he be feeling like this when everything he’d ev
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