Short version: Rhianna sleeps with billionaire Alexis, who curses her existence for daring to discuss business after coitus. Alexis discovers their secret baby when Rhianna almost dies!Long version: In a last ditch effort to win her father’s love, Rhianna buys a fancy dress and goes to London to ...
Georgy had been fed and changed, and had settled for his afternoon nap in his secondhand cot, tucked in beside her bed in the single bedroom the flat possessed. She was grateful for Georgy’s afternoon sleep, even though if he slept too much he didn’t sleep well at night, for it gave her an hour o...
CHAPTER EIGHT SPRING came. The days lengthened, the tender shoots of new growth peered between the blasted stalks of last year’s vegetation. In the garden and in the hedgerows primroses pushed their way out of the dark, confining earth, new leaves unfurled on bared branches. Life returned. And Al...
For a moment filled with agony Sophie felt the pain of it. Then, steeling herself, she turned expressionless eyes on Nikos. ‘What do you want?’ she responded stonily. Something moved—flashed—in those dark eyes into whose depths she had once fallen and drowned. ‘Want?’ he echoed. The taunt was sti...
She could do nothing else. She had no strength to move. No strength of body or of soul. She lay quite still, her head resting on his chest, his arm around her shoulder, his hand lying slackly on her upper arm, his legs still half tangled with hers. She disengaged, her body slipping from his, inde...
Alistair Lassiter was talking at him. He’d been talking at him for the last twenty minutes, and Leon had stopped listening after the first ten. He’d heard all he needed to know. The man was getting desperate. That much was screamingly obvious. Leon had been well aware of the financial precariousn...
Celeste could see it from her living room window, pulled over by the kerb. She stared down at it. Was she mad to be doing this? She knew she was. Mad even to think of doing what she was going to do. Have dinner with Rafael Sanguardo. But it’s only d...