The Mediterranean Billionaire's Blackmail Bargain

ABBY GREEN

Step into a world of sophistication and glamour, where sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.His dark desire… Cynical, ruthless Dante D’Aquanni is a powerful man with a reputation to uphold. When Alicia Parker turns up at his Lake Como villa with the press in tow, claiming he’s responsible for her sister’s pregnancy, he’s furious. He knows her kind – and he’ll make her pay! When it turns out her sick sister’s lover was actually Dante’s brother – not Dante – Alicia has to make amends. But Dante demands more than just a mere apology. He’ll see her sister is looked after, but he wants Alicia by his side on his next business trip. Soon she’s whisked into a world of glamour, luxury and passion.But, despite the sizzling chemistry between them, Alicia knows she must leave – because she’s falling for a man who despises her…

Alicia looked up to Dante’s face and willed herself to stand tall, strong, when everything in her wanted to hurl herself back into his arms and beg him to kiss her again.

‘I don’t know what just happened there—’

He advanced with a dangerous look on his face. ‘I can show you if you like.’ He clearly didn’t like the direction things were going. Alicia retreated around the back of the seat and gripped it. Her top slid off her shoulder again.

‘That won’t be happening again. Just because you have me here as a result of extenuating circumstances, just because you’ve dressed me, does not mean that I am available sexually. I am not interested—do you hear me? I will not be used like this just because it’s… it’s easy or convenient.’

Dante regarded the woman in front of him. Two spots of high colour marked her cheeks; her mouth looked like a ripe moist fruit…her hair was coming undone, tendrils of curls falling in sexy disarray. He had no doubt in his mind that he would indeed be taking Alicia Parker to bed. She was here now, his for a month. Plenty of time. She wouldn’t last more than a week with this heat burning up the air around them.

Abby Green worked for twelve years in the film industry. The glamour of four a.m. starts, dealing with precious egos, mucky fields, driving rain…all became too much. After stumbling across a guide to writing romance, she took it as a sign and saw her way out, capitalising on her long-time love for romance books. Now she is very happy to sit in her nice warm house while others are out in the rain and muck! She lives and works in Dublin.

THE MEDITERRANEAN BILLIONAIRE’S BLACKMAIL BARGAIN

BY

ABBY GREEN

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CHAPTER ONE

‘I AM quite certain that if I had fathered a child I would be wellaware of the fact, which, needless to say, would be none of your business, as you are a complete stranger. Now take your hand off me immediately.’

Alicia Parker was still stunned into immobility by the sheer audacity of her actions, which had stopped this man in his tracks. She looked up into a face so savagely handsome that the breath left her body. All her poor muddled, overtired and overwrought brain could formulate were impressions. Tall. Broad. Dark. Gorgeous. Sexy. Powerful. Sexy. Powerful.

Eyes as cold and dark as the night stared down with uncompromising arrogance and supreme assurance that she—and her preposterous accusation—were so far removed from his gilded life that she must be certifiably mad to accost him like this. His look could have turned her to ice…and yet, awfully, Alicia didn’t feel cold. She felt hot. All over.

And as she watched, struck dumb by any number of things,the very least of which was his overwhelming presence, Dante D’Aquanni calmly and disdainfully extricated the expensive cloth of his suit from her white knuckle grip, flicked a glance to his minions nearby and strode off and out of the mammoth building which housed his offices in London.

He was gone, as if spirited away, without a backward glance at the petite, dishevelled woman who stood gaping at his departing back. Who’d had only the briefest of chances to get o