The Greek Millionaire's Secret Child

Catherine Spencer

Литагент HarperCollins EUR

The Leonidas love-child Nurse Emily Tyler has come to Greece with good intentions. But Nikolaos Leonidas sees only a gold-digger, with eyes fixed on his family’s fortune. It’s his plan to expose the fragile beauty. A weekend with champagne and seduction on his opulent yacht ought to do the trick.By the time Emily has proved her integrity, it’s too late. She’s fallen for the daredevil Greek. His risk-taking lifestyle is no place for cautious Emily – let alone the love-child she’s now carrying!

“Can we just say I’m tired ofplaying games and leave it atthat? I want to be close to youbecause I like you for yourself.So do you want the same thing orhave I misread the signs?”

“No, you haven’t,” she admitted. “But you said just this afternoon that I was a complication you didn’t need.”

“Over-analyzing is second nature to me. It’s saved my skin more often than I care to count. But in this case I took it too far.”

“Maybe not,” she said judiciously. “Maybe you simply realized there was no future in a relationship with me.”

“Never counting on the future is another by-product of my job. The only certainty is the here and now.”

He took a step toward her, then another, until he was close enough to inhale the scent of her skin. “What do you say, Emily?” he asked hoarsely. “Will you take a chance with me?”

Catherine Spencer, once an English teacher, fell into writing through eavesdropping on a conversation about Harlequin

Romances. Within two months she changed careers, and sold her first book to Mills & Boon

in 1984. She moved to Canada from England thirty years ago and lives in Vancouver. She is married to a Canadian and has four grown children—two daughters and two sons (and now eight grandchildren)—plus two dogs. In her spare time she plays the piano, collects antiques, and grows tropical shrubs.

You can visit Catherine Spencer’s website at www.catherinespencer.com

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CATHERINE SPENCER

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CHAPTER ONE

EMILY singled him out immediately, not because his father had described him so well that she couldn’t miss him, but because even though he stood well back from everyone else, he dominated the throng waiting to meet passengers newly arrived at Athens’s Venizelos Airport. At more than six feet of lean, toned masculinity blessed with the face of a fallen angel, he could hardly help it. One look at him was enough to tell her he was the kind of man other men envied, and women fought over.

As if on cue, his gaze locked with hers. Locked and lingered a small eternity, long enough for her insides to roll over in fascinated trepidation. Every instinct of self-preservation told her he was bad news; that she’d live to rue the day she met him. Then he nodded, as though he knew exactly the effect he’d had on her, and cutting a swath through the crowd, strode forward.

Given her first unobstructed view, she noted how his jeans emphasized his narrow hips and long legs, the way his black leather bomber jacket rode smoothly over his powerful shoulders, and the startling contrast of his throat rising strong and tanned against the open collar of his white shirt. As he drew closer, she saw, too, that his mouth and his jaw, the latter firm and faintly dusted with new beard shadow, betrayed the stubbornness his father had spoken of.

When he reached them, he asked in a voice as sinfully seductive as the rest of him, “So you beat the odds and made it back in one piece. How was the flight?”

“Long,” Pavlos replied, sounding every bit as worn and weary as he surely must feel. Not even painkillers and the luxury of first-class air travel had been enough to cushion his discomfort. “Very long. But as you can see, I