Susan Stephens - The Greek's Virgin Temptation

‘It’s hard to avoid news of the super-rich,’ she admitted with all the cool she could muster. ‘Anyway, I feel quite safe now.’

‘Meaning?’ Kris probed, frowning.

‘Meaning I can’t imagine you would rope me in for the role of consort.’

He laughed out loud, a flash of strong white teeth against his burnished tan. ‘You have such a romantic way of putting things,’ he remarked. His stare burned into her as he looked down.

‘I’m a bit worried that you haven’t denied it,’ she admitted, ‘but I’m confident your selection of wife will come from a much more prestigious group of women than a jobbing artist could hope to join. As for being romantic? Believe me, I’d love to be romantic, but life made me wise up in a hurry.’

‘We all make mistakes.’

‘Even you, Kris Kaimos?’ she challenged. ‘Will you regret meeting me by tomorrow morning?’

‘I can’t possibly know until tomorrow comes.’

‘You’re good at evading questions, aren’t you?’

‘I’m a businessman.’

‘I don’t believe you’ve answered a single one of my questions,’ Kimmie mused, ‘but I suppose there is an upside to that. If your business fails, you could always consider becoming a politician.’

‘My business won’t fail.’

‘No. I don’t believe it will,’ she agreed. ‘With you at the helm, it wouldn’t dare.’

Humour glinted briefly in Kris’s eyes, but then he turned serious. ‘Would you rather I made a pretence of feelings I don’t have?’

‘No, of course not. Most people would try to be a little more diplomatic, but you won’t even fudge the issue.’

‘No, I won’t,’ he agreed.

Life had made them both cold fish, Kimmie concluded, and it was lonely in their ivory towers.

‘Decision time,’ he said. ‘Stay with your friends, or come with me?’

‘Friends first, then you,’ she said.

‘Okay. Let’s do this.’

‘Ready,’ Kimmie confirmed.

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