Taming the French Tycoon

Rebecca Winters

Can she melt his frozen heart?Since taking over the luxurious Ferriers perfume brand, new CEO Jasmine Martin has been fighting an uphill battle to prove she deserves her high-powered position! Especially to brooding tycoon Luc Charriere, the most distractingly handsome man she’s ever met…Luc doesn’t trust easily, but Jasmine needs his help, and something in her beautiful blue eyes tempts him to offer his support. And when Luc realises how much he cares for her, he’ll risk everything to keep the woman who stole his heart by his side…

“So you have no interest in me except for what I've been able to do for you.”

Her features hardened. “I came to you with a business proposition. You know how grateful I am for what you've done for me—”

“But it's all work and no play, even though you're separated from your beloved by thousands of miles?”

Those blue eyes looked haunted. “What do you want from me?”

“How about honesty?”

“I'm being honest …” Her voice trembled.

“The heck you are—” he whispered fiercely. Having taken all he could, he pulled her close so their mouths were almost touching. “I'm feeling something I've never felt before, and I know you're feeling it too, but your guilt is preventing you from admitting it. The fact that guilt is getting in the way means you couldn't possibly love this man the way you should.”

A strangled moan escaped her lips.

“I'm going to kiss you, Jasmine, and then we'll know for a certainty.”

Luc found her mouth and coaxed her lips apart. In the next instant he felt her begin to kiss him back with such answering hunger it took his breath.

He'd wanted this kiss to happen for so long, and now that it had he couldn't stop. Her passionate response took them to a deeper level until they both moaned with pleasure.

Taming the French Tycoon

Rebecca Winters

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

REBECCA WINTERS whose family of four children has now swelled to include five beautiful grandchildren, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the land of the Rocky Mountains. With canyons and high alpine meadows full of wildflowers, she never runs out of places to explore. They, plus her favourite vacation spots in Europe, often end up as backgrounds for her romance novels, because writing is her passion, along with her family and church.

Rebecca loves to hear from readers. If you wish to e-mail her, please visit her website: www.cleanromances.com (http://www.cleanromances.com).

Contents

Cover (#u98d924d0-7347-514a-80b0-95fcab542ada)

Introduction (#ufb1154eb-dbe9-5164-9290-065fd774450a)

Title Page (#u26abba49-47f5-5fe7-a425-5acb82994fa3)

About the Author (#ub9922948-8c31-53b0-b1e1-2250848a7260)

CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_7486b6ab-30c2-5693-b6ee-1087ea1a0430)

CHAPTER TWO (#ulink_4f49fed4-94c9-5df3-ab67-04821d5df555)

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CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_14e3c423-64d2-5704-8f8e-9663ea87eaad)

May

WITH HIS BANKING business done in Cyprus, Luc had taken a rare morning off to visit Yeronisos before flying back to France. He’d always had an interest in archaeology and the tiny island off the coast was thought to be the site of the temple of Apollo. They’d dug up foundations, walls, coins, amulets, wine jugs, and much more. So far the items had been traced to Alexandria, three hundred miles away.

Evidently Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, had possessed the resources to build here on the top of these seventy-foot cliffs that kept visitors away. Yeronisos was so inaccessible they called it a virgin island because it had remained much as it had been when man had first come there over ten thousand years ago.

Luc had walked around the excavations for an hour and found it a totally fascinating place where he could indulge his passion, but then a boatload of male teenag