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Her uncle was getting more agitated, looking slightly shifty. ‘The thing is, Cassia… I didn’t tell you before now as I knew it might upset you, but I’ve started doing business with him again. Since your parents died, that is. Obviously your father wouldn’t have approved, but, you see, I had to, Cassia. I had no one else to turn to, and when he gave me an appointment... He laughed a sudden, brief laugh, sounding like a little boy. ‘Me! An appointment. It would appear he’s willing to let bygones be bygones, at least with me. Now, if it had been your father, that would have been a different story— He seemed to catch himself, realizing he was starting to babble, and gripped Cassia’s hands tighter. "However, if he sees you..."The familiar clench of grief at the mention of her parents went unnoticed for once. Her uncle was referring, of course, to the scandal that had gripped Greece for weeks. The press had devoured the story of how Calix Petrakis had taken advantage of his family friend’s

Cassia took the phone away from her ear for a second and looked at it. Calix was up to something. That was one thing she was sure of. She existed somewhere on his list of people to call for dinner, alongside Attila the Hun. He whizzed around the world on his private jet, doing billion-dollar deals, meeting heads of state, and dating what seemed to be an endless stream of models and actresses, like Isadora. It was only afterwards, when she’d gotten away from him, that she’d realized who the other woman had been: a famous actress. He certainly didn’t call people he despised to ask them out for dinner. People who had ruined his chance for marital happiness and even, by some accounts, a huge merger with his fiancée’s family shipping company, but she wasn’t sure about that. She’d avoided listening to anyone talk about it at the time, and in England, at least, it hadn’t hit the news with the same force."Somehow I don’t think you do, Calix.""But I do, Cassia." "I'd like us to catch up," he

‘All in good time, Cassia.’ He bent forward and Cassia fought against arching back into the chair. She felt very keenly as though she were involved in something huge, but something she had no clue about. Like a fly caught in a web. And she didn’t like it. Not when Calix smiled at her like the hungry spider."Tell me," he asked equably when her water arrived, "how have you ended up here in Paris?" Didn’t you go to college in the UK?She nodded slowly, determined not to show her fear or her sense of being intimidated. But despite her wariness, she found it surprisingly easy to talk."After my mother and father died, I wanted to get away from London." I’ve always loved Paris. I had spent a year here during my business degree, taking French... She shrugged, awkward under his intense gaze. "It seemed like an obvious choice." I took the money from my inheritance and set up our small firm. We got busy quickly as we seemed to corner the niche in doing PR for English companies setting up here

She pulled her hand away, uncaring if people were looking. ‘There’s nothing starting here, Calix. I’m leaving.’His voice was low and lethal. ‘No. You’re not. If you stand up, so help me, I will pick you up and carry you out of here over my shoulder. Don’t think that I won’t. So we can do this here and now, or we can cause a furor of interest, give the paparazzi something to photograph outside, and do it back in my apartment.She had been standing when she sat down again slowly. She knew without a doubt that she didn’t want to be alone with him and that he wouldn’t hesitate to do exactly what he’d said.When she had sat back down, he continued agreeably, as though discussing the weather. "As I was saying, your uncle is in need of a substantial loan." a loan to keep Baros Shipping afloat...literally. This puts me in an interesting position, wouldn’t you say? He didn’t wait for her answer. "I was quite prepared to do business with Rastus, as it suits my needs, too, but now things are in

The very thought of him doing that made her mouth go dry.‘You flatter yourself…’ she said faintly, knowing her words would have no effect. He was coming at her like a two-tonne lorry and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She seized on something, her hand still trapped by his. ‘Isadora! You’re hardly going to marry me if you’re seeing her. Why don’t you just marry her? You two are lovers after all…’ Something twisted in her gut when she said that and she had to hide her reaction.He let her hand go and flicked his dismissively in a very Greek gesture. ‘Isadora is no longer a part of my life.’Cassia had to suck in a shocked breath at the coldness of his tone. "It didn’t look to me the other night as though she was aware of that."‘She is now.’ His tone brooked no further comment on the subject. Cassia felt a twinge for the other woman and could only imagine how brutal he’d been.She had to face it. If she hadn’t already. The young man she had known, the young man who had once