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NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 1
She couldn’t believe her eyes… Those photos were… She closed her eyes and felt like she was about to throw up. Norah Wilde opened her mouth and took a deep breath. Her heart had begun slamming inside her rib cage the moment she had recognized herself. “Oh, God… How is this possible?” she murmured, feeling her entire world crashing down around her. Norah looked from the screen to Ivana Rossi, the public relations manager for ‘Gritti International Bank’, then back to the screen.“‘Questa è lei, non è così?’ (This is you, isn’t it?)” Ivana prodded in Italian. ‘What the hell is going on here? And she’s talking in Italian… Why?’ Her brain was having a hard time understanding… finding the right words to create a phrase… to give these people a logical explanation of what she was seeing on that damn screen. Cold sweat coated her skin. Air wouldn’t squeeze past her locked throat, let alone words. Yes, that woman in those photos was her.
NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 2
A strange buzz inside her intensified. The Boss knew her name? Maybe he did because he heard it from Ivana’s report, Norah supposed. The furious accusation in his eyes told her he’d already seen the photos. Well, of course, he’d seen them. Everybody saw them. That’s why Leone Gritti had stooped from the lofty heights of the top floor to the midlevel of the ‘Gritti Tower’. Her shallow breaths halted and her knees quivered. Norah was weirdly shocked by how defenseless the idea of Leone Gritti seeing her naked made her feel, but the effect this very perfect stranger had had on her from the start was unprecedented. She’d seen him stride through the offices in New York once and that simple glimpse of an incredibly gorgeous and dynamic man had made her view the postings at the head office in Milan that much more favorably than any other branch in the organization. Norah had wanted to advance and would have take
NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 3
His gaze delved into her culpable one. She couldn’t hide the turmoil and resentment coursing through her at being put on the spot.“I am innocent and I’m absolutely sure you can prove it without roaming inside my phone as if you’re entitled to do so. My privacy has been invaded enough for one day, signor Gritti. Don’t you agree?” She was naked… On the internet. Norah supposed everyone in the building was staring at her image right now. Men saying filthy, nasty things about her, about every single part of her body… imagining doing dirty things to her… Women judging whether her stomach was flat enough, saying she had cellulite, calling her too bony or too tall or too something so they could feel better about their own body issues… Calling her a whore even… All Norah wanted was to hang her head and sob. All she could think was how hard she’d worked not to be pushed around by life the way her mother had been. At every stage, she’d tried to be self-re
NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 4
Norah looked like she had been to hell and back. She was the portrayal of despair and disillusion but she immediately sat taller, blinking and visibly fighting back her tears to face him without shying away.“I want to leave, signor Gritti,” she stated in a determined tone. “I’m done staying here, and being mistreated.” The rasp in her voice scraped at his nerves while Leone studied her. Vixens knew how to use their sexuality on a man. If Norah was a victim, he would expect her to appeal to the protector in him and not be so confrontational. But Norah Wilde was a fighter. Leone didn’t want to find that determination attractive. ‘Don’t be such a fucking softie, Gritti!’ Leone had to remind himself that the woman standing in front of him was suspected of being the accomplice of Weldon, conspiring together with him to bilk the bank and a completely legitimate nonprofit organization of millions of euros in donations.“Miss Wilde, I am abso
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“At this point, it’s my word against theirs… And we all know who you and everybody else are going to believe…” she said slowly in a defeated tone and sat on a chair. “I’m absolutely sure that nothing I might say or do might save my reputation when I have to fight against people with money and prestige.” Tears started falling down her cheek, but Norah wiped them off with the back of her hand. No one must see her crying, not Phillip Weldon, not Fabio Sensi, and, definitely, not Leone Gritti. “I tried to play by the rules, but in the end, I’ve lost anyway,” she continued this time talking more to herself than to Leone. “My image is trashed all over social media, my reputation is torn… All I’ve worked for so hard and sacrificed so much is vanished into thin air. All I’ve dreamed to achieve is not possible anymore… What am I going to do now?” Without saying a word to her or in general, Leone plucked his white handkerchief from his jacket pocket and moved to damp
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She swallowed hard, then took a long sip of her scotch, shivering as the burn chased down her throat, then replaced her glass into its holder with a dull thud.“There! Are you happy now?”“‘Sì, grazie…’ (Yes, thank you)”“Signor Gritti, I think I have the right to know where are you taking me… Because up until this point, this is kidnapping and…”“This isn’t a kidnapping, Norah,” Leone countered dryly. “We’re going to Bellagio, on Lake Como. We’ll be staying at Yari’s villa. It’s in his wife’s name and away from the paparazzi’s radar. So, we’ll be okay there.”“Lake Como? No, no, I can’t go there. I want to go home. My passport is in my apartment, my suitcase, all my things…” she insisted, reaching to open her seatbelt. “I want to go to my apartment and prepare everything for my flight back to the States. I can’t stay here a second more.”“Oh, so you want to go back to the States, huh? The press there is more relentless than ours, Norah. Even if you managed to drop out of
NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 7
“And there you have it… I’m a freaking star… Everybody over the Atlantic knows now about this whole mess,” Norah muttered squeezing the phone, cringing again. It was afternoon here. Freddie would be starting his day in New York, and the fact that he’d learned so quickly of the photos told her exactly how broadly these things were being distributed. Maybe reporters had tracked down the family connection and were harassing him and David? ‘Damn you, Phillip Weldon!’ His headline name was turning her into a punch line. She set her phone on the table, unable to think of anything to say except ‘I’m sorry’, and that was far from being enough.“I&rs
NORAH & HER UNTAMEABLE BOSS CHAPTER 8
Leone let her into the stunning villa, then watched her while she was looking around totally stunned by the beauty of the place. He took off the phone and made a call allowing her to listen as he greeted someone with an extremely warm ‘Ciao, tesoro! Come stai?’ (Hi, honey! How are you?). Who was the woman he was talking to on the phone? Who was this ‘honey’ he had been so eager to call the moment they arrived here? The sound of his voice while talking to her, his entire demeanor… everything was so annoying to her. Norah took it like a punch in her gut. So, he already had a woman… Of course, he had one. A man like Leone Gritti has several women. Models, actresses, dancers… Not boring women like her.“What the hell am I doing here, with him?” Then Norah sighed, telling herself how crazy she was to accept his proposal. How could Leone call her his ‘lover’ if he already has one? More than one… And even if he has just one, that wo
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