Dani Collins - His Mistress With Two Secrets

For my parents,

who are celebrating their 50 thwedding anniversary as I write this. Much love always from #1.

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Back Cover Text Pregnant with the billionaire’s babies! After the painfully public demise of her intense fling with renowned tycoon Henri Sauveterre, Cinnia Whitley discovers she’s pregnant...with twins! Cinnia burns with the memory of his touch, but bearing a new generation of the Sauveterre dynasty will bind her to Henri forever—unless she keeps it a secret... Henri is infuriated when he discovers Cinnia’s deception. His little sister’s abduction ended all his intentions of having a family—but any Sauveterre deserves his full protection. Henri must make Cinnia his wife, and he’ll show her just how pleasurable their reunion can be!

Introduction “This is why I didn’t want children. But we’re here now, so we’ll do what we must. You’ll marry me.” “No…” Cinnia said in a husk of a voice, her lips white. Henri drew in a tested breath, frustration returning in a flood of heat. “Did you hear what I just said?” “Yes, I heard you. Fine. I’ll live behind your iron curtain, but—” She swallowed. “But I won’t marry you.” Her chin came up in what he knew was her standing-her-ground face. His ears buzzed as he sifted through her words. “What do you mean?” “I mean I’ll live with you, but I won’t live with you.” She flushed and pulled her shoulders up defensively around her ears. “You don’t want to sleep with me?” His heart bottomed out. She couldn’t mean that. She flinched and looked away, blinking hard. “No. I don’t.” “Liar.” It came out of him as a breath of absolute truth.

The Sauveterre Siblings The Sauveterre Siblings Contents Cover Back Cover Text Introduction The Sauveterre Siblings Title Page About the Author Dear Reader Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN EPILOGUE Extract Copyright Meet the world’s most renowned family... Angelique, Henri, Ramon and Trella—two sets of twins born to a wealthy French tycoon and his Spanish aristocrat wife. Fame, notoriety and an excess of bodyguards is the price of being part of their illustrious dynasty. And wherever the Sauveterre twins go, scandal is sure to follow! They’re protected by the best security money can buy—no one can break through their barriers... But what happens when each of these Sauveterre siblings meets the one person who can breach their heart…? Meet the heirs to the Sauveterre fortune in Dani Collins’s fabulous new quartet: Pursued by the Desert Prince March 2017 His Mistress with Two Secrets April 2017 Ramon and Isadora’s story Coming soon! Trella and Prince Xavier’s story Coming soon!

Title Page His Mistress with Two Secrets Dani Collins www.millsandboon.co.uk

About the Author Canadian DANI COLLINS knew in high school that she wanted to write romance for a living. Twenty-five years later—after marrying her high school sweetheart, having two kids with him, working at several generic office jobs and submitting countless manuscripts—she got ‘The Call’. Her first Mills & Boon novel won the Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First in Series from RT Book Reviews. She now works in her own office, writing romance. Books by Dani Collins Mills & Boon Modern Romance The Secret Beneath the Veil Bought by Her Italian Boss Vows of Revenge Seduced into the Greek’s World The Russian’s Acquisition An Heir to Bind Them A Debt Paid in Passion More than a Convenient Marriage? No Longer Forbidden? The Sauveterre Siblings Pursued by the Desert Prince The Wrong Heirs The Marriage He Must Keep The Consequence He Must Claim Seven Sexy Sins The Sheikh’s Sinful Seduction The 21 st Century Gentleman’s Club The Ultimate Seduction One Night With Consequences Proof of Their Sin Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.

Dear Reader Dear Reader Contents Cover Back Cover Text Introduction The Sauveterre Siblings Title Page About the Author Dear Reader Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN EPILOGUE Extract Copyright , Henri is the oldest of the Sauveterre Twins. After his sister was kidnapped he decided never to marry and have children, fearing they would become targets. He doesn’t resent being a twin, but he knows who he is beyond that label. He’s very singular…likes control and routine. Life is unpredictable enough without improvising your way through it…that’s his attitude. Cinnia is also very practical, and independent to a fault. As far as mistresses go, she was the perfect match for Henri, demanding little from him. That was why he was so blindsided when she left him. I adore it when this happens to our alpha males—when they are über-confident and think they have their lives well in hand and then…wham! The heroine straightens her spine and slams the door behind her. Cinnia is pregnant, and she knows exactly how Henri will react. Badly! If they can make the jump from defensive and aloof to realizing they are perfect for one another, they have a chance at real happiness. I’ll let you turn the page and discover for yourself how they make out. Enjoy! Dani

Dedication Dedication Contents Cover Back Cover Text Introduction The Sauveterre Siblings Title Page About the Author Dear Reader Dedication PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN EPILOGUE Extract Copyright For my parents, who are celebrating their 50 th wedding anniversary as I write this. Much love always from #1.

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

EPILOGUE

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PROLOGUE

AS SHE ENTERED the clinic from the stairwell, Cinnia Whitley almost knocked the door into a woman standing inside. Cinnia murmured a distracted apology, thinking she might have seen her before, but not here. She would remember someone so tall and stiff and alert standing in that particular place.

Wait. Was she a guard? It was an odd place to hover. Maybe that’s why she seemed so familiar. After spending two years with sober-faced watchmen dogging her movements, perhaps it wasn’t the face she recognized so much as the attitude.

Because, if the woman was merely a relative waiting on a patient, there was a very comfortable lounge at the front of the clinic. The back entrance was for people like Cinnia, the paranoid ones who crept in through the building’s underground car park in hopes of keeping her visit to this prenatal specialist strictly confidential.

Cinnia didn’t bother speculating who the celebrity patient could be. She had bigger fish to fry. She was here for a scan to confirm suspicions on why she was expanding so quickly.

No, she kept thinking, absolutely refusing to entertain the most likely reason. She had a lot of work to get through in the next twenty-two weeks and had struggled to find time for another morning off for this test. If the doctor’s suspicions were correct, her entire future would have to be recalibrated.

Twins? Really? No. Multiple births weren’t even hereditary when they were identical and she thought only mothers passed along the fraternal trait. A father with an identical brother and two younger, identical twin sisters couldn’t pass that to his offspring.