Untamed Italian, Blackmailed Innocent

JACQUELINE BAIRD

The debt: ?1,000,000… No woman has ever shunned wicked Italian tycoon Zac Delucca! But sweet, studious Sally is in a world of her own, looking after her sick mother – little does she realise her unfocused lack of interest is driving Zac’s fury! Especially as her father is responsible for embezzling millions from his company.The payment: her innocence… There’s a debt to be paid. Zac will offer Sally an ultimatum – become his mistress on demand, or risk ruin! He’s confident she’ll make the right choice…

‘Sally…May I call you Sally?’ he asked politely, then went on, ‘You are a beautiful young woman. Your father must be a very proud man.’

Overblown words of flattery from a man with a sexually explicit invitation in the dark eyes that met hers did not impress her. Her mother was her only concern.

Straightening her slender shoulders, she held out her hand politely. ‘Nice to meet you,’ she said flatly.

Zac Delucca did not miss the flash of distaste in her brilliant blue eyes as he finally let go of her hand.

Her voice was low, and ever so slightly husky. Her brilliant blue eyes had been cool as she glanced up at him and swiftly back to her father. Never had a woman so instantly dismissed him. Yet this beauty had done it twice. Her indifference rankled, and he was all the more determined to make her aware of him…

Jacqueline Baird began writing as a hobby, when her family objected to the smell of her oil painting, and immediately became hooked on the romantic genre. She loves travelling and worked her way around the world from Europe to the Americas and Australia, returning to marry her teenage sweetheart. She lives in Ponteland, Northumbria, the county of her birth, and has two teenage sons.

Untamed

Italian,

Blackmailed

Innocent

by

Jacqueline Baird

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

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#udfcb54b0-46c0-50e1-91c9-da26ca9b6de9)

Excerpt (#u71b87eee-bae7-559e-900d-ed5308fc7824)

About The Author (#u29f177aa-de62-553f-b979-642baf7521ce)

Title Page (#u0ed1f92a-fea4-5eb7-8bbb-5a7c30aa1f8c)

CHAPTER ONE (#uc3820bd9-f3c3-5052-9cc5-51325631a32c)

CHAPTER TWO (#ue89c3cb6-4449-59a8-9376-b6b0c1991043)

CHAPTER THREE (#u96d5e1e9-9379-53cb-a58e-49ac9a60dbd7)

CHAPTER FOUR (#uba8d4e00-dd03-5a8d-94f2-831bb3239160)

CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

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EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter One

ZAC DELUCCA stepped out of the chauffeur-driven limousine and glanced up at the four-storeyed Georgian-style building in front of him: the head office of Westwold Components, a company he had finally acquired two weeks ago. He had left Raffe, his top man, in charge of the changeover, so he had not expected to be needed in London in June, and he was not pleased…

He was ruggedly attractive, with black hair and shrewd dark eyes, and the navy silk and mohair suit he wore was a testament to the expertise of his tailor. The jacket stretched taut across shoulders as wide as a barn door, and at six feet five he was a powerful, impressive figure of a man in every respect. Not a man anyone could overlook, though the fierce frown at present marring his bold features would scare all but the bravest into glancing the other way.

Orphaned at a year old by the tragic death of his young parents in a car crash, Zac Delucca had spent his early years in a children’s home in Rome. He had left at fifteen, with nothing but the clothes he stood up in and a burning ambition to become a success in life.

Tall, and looking older than his years, he had by sheer guts, determination and keen intelligence dragged himself up from the gutter that beckoned. He had studied by day and used his physical stren