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She woke with a start, unsure of her surroundings and of what might have wakened her. In a rush she remembered that she was in Alejandro’s house and she fumbled for the light switch by the bed. She was sitting up when she heard a disturbing sound from his room. A cry? Without further thought she slid out of bed and snatched up the shirt he had left in a careless heap. Hastily donning it, she opened the communicating door between their rooms.In the dawn light filtering through the shutters she could see Alejandro tossing and turning in the big bed. He was moaning something in his own language. The sheer terror in his voice grabbed her by the throat, shook her up and sent her flying straight to his side. She scrambled up on the mattress to get within reach of him and rested a soothing hand on his shoulder. His skin was as hot as fire.‘Alejandro ...wake up!’ she whispered urgently, shaking him slightly.Alejandro wrenched himself up in a sudden movement that startled her. He was trembl
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Alejandro surveyed the heavily crowded room with concealed dissatisfaction. He wondered why it was that when fate gave him what he believed he had always wanted he should find it so irritating. Clingy women who remained welded to him like superglue in company had always exasperated him.In the course of a month, he had learned that Selena did not cling, stalk him round the room or continually seek ways to attract his attention. In fact, he sometimes felt like handcuffing her to his wrist or tagging her with a satellite navigation system he could use to locate her when he wanted her back by his side. When she got talking to his guests, she lost track of time. She was wildly popular with the garden enthusiasts and had to be regularly rescued from those who took advantage of her horticultural knowledge to request free advice and even personal visits.‘Where is she?’ Alejandro was finally forced to ask Chris.A few minutes later, his chief of security was at his heels, he strode out to th
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Madly conscious of the warmth of his skin against hers and of the electric sparks of awareness in the atmosphere, Selena glanced up at him. The dark pupils of her blue eyes were dilated. Sensual tension sizzled through her, holding her still. She was on a high and although she tried she could not pull back from that intoxicating sense of energy and power while his smouldering tawny eyes burned over her with masculine appreciation.Alejandro bent his arrogant dark head to murmur thickly, ‘How do you do this to me?’Taunting heat pulsed at the heart of her. She felt so wicked she closed her eyes tight, fighting his electrifyingly sexual magnetism. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about—’‘Ok dear. Let me show you.’ Snapping both hands over her wrists, Alejandro backed into the room behind him and drew her with him.The instant she registered his intention, Selena went rigid. She knew that hot, intent look on his lean, darkly handsome face. It filled her with an excitement she loathed.
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‘I’m all right,’ she muttered awkwardly just as her mobile phone rang. ‘Excuse me...’It was her stepsister, Charlotte .‘We need to talk to you urgently,’ Charlotte declared in a sharp voice that made Selena’s heart sink like a stone and her anxiety level rise even faster. ‘It’s a family matter and I can’t discuss it on the phone. How quickly can you get down here?’‘I’ll get on the first available train tomorrow.’‘I have to go home for a couple of days,’ Selena told Angelo, anxiously wondering if the problem that her stepsister had refused to discuss related to the total breakdown of their respective parents’ marriage. ‘It’s a family crisis.’His lean, strong face austere, Alejandro frowned. ‘I’ll come with you.’Selena was painfully conscious of Alejandro’s attitude to her father, and could only think that Alejandro’s presence would increase the strain and embarrassment for all concerned. ‘Thanks, but I don’t think that’s a good idea. This is private family stuff.’Alejandro thoug
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You now travel in luxury: a private helicopter for your sole use and a limo and driver to deliver you right to our door?’ Joshua Lynch awarded Selena an admiring smile across the depth of his spacious book-lined study. ‘I’m impressed. Obviously, Alejandro Perez thinks very highly of you.’‘I don’t know about that. I just missed my train.’ Selena was already wondering if Charlotte had exaggerated the family crisis because her father did not seem like someone in any trouble. Indeed he seemed quite relaxed. ‘Charlotte made the situation here sound grave and she was very mysterious. I’ve been really worried.’ She said while staring around for evidence that she had been lured here on false pretense.‘Then you’ll be relieved to learn that my current problem is only what you might call a footnote to that other business at Vento.’ The older man grimaced. ‘There I was in a hell of a bind and I did what most people in a financial crisis do—I borrowed just a little from Peter to pay Paul.’Selen
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The temperature in the room dropped instantly. Everyone stared at her in temporary disbelief.No sooner had the words left Selena’s lips than she regretted an admission that she would never have made had she not been so upset and desperate to defend herself. Silence had fallen. All three women were now viewing her with dropped jaws of disbelief and she was totally mortified.‘I had no idea,’ Elise retorted frigidly. ‘It sounds absolutely immoral and I hope you’re not blaming us for your decision. Do we need the sordid details?’‘Alejandro Perez had to blackmail you into bed with him?’ Wanda gasped wide eyed. ‘I’d have knocked him flat in the rush. What’s the matter with you?’‘That is so, so sexy.’ Charlotte could not conceal her envy. ‘You are really sad, Selena . No normal woman would be complaining about it!’Dumbfounded by those reactions, Selena walked out of the room. She was taken aback to see Bryan waiting in the hall. Just as quickly she appreciated that Bryan, as a member of
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‘I still don’t understand how you knew where I was today.’ Selena askedAlejandro dealt her a mocking look. ‘I always know where you are. Whenever you go out, someone on Chris’s team watches over you. I’m in the public eye. I have enemies. Even if the only threat is from the paparazzi, you need protection.’Selena could hardly contain her annoyance. ‘It’s like being under police surveillance...why didn’t you tell me?’‘Your safety is my concern. So, tell me the tale of Bryan ,’ Alejandro invited, determined to satisfy his curiosity. ‘How did you manage to fall for someone who’s gay?’Selena chewed at her lower lip with her teeth before she finally answered. ‘It was a secret and I wasn’t in on it when I first knew him. By the time I found out, it was too late.’‘How too late? Finding out that should have been a wake-up call,’ Alejandro said very drily.‘It’s not that simple—’‘In the same scenario I would find it very simple.’ Alejandro interrupted Selena tilted her chin. ‘When did
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Selena studied him uncertainly. ‘Don’t you want to know why I needed to see my family yesterday?’Alejandro released his breath in a slow, expressive hiss. ‘I have a fair idea.’Her smooth brow furrowed. ‘How? I mean...you didn’t say anything,’ she faltered.‘How? I have senior staff at Vento and the rumors about the plunder on the local garden fund hit the grapevine there a few days ago,’ Angelo confided with precision. ‘I then made further enquiries, which is why I’m here.’‘It’s not just a rumour.’Level dark eyes gazed steadily down at her. ‘I didn’t think it would be.’Selena moistened her dry lips. ‘My father took the money and used it to try and conceal the sums he had taken from Vento.’Alejandro lifted his hand to skate a warning forefinger gently across her full lower lip. ‘Let’s rewind and not have this conversation. I don’t like the direction I suspect it might be taking.’Her lashes fluttered up on her bemused gaze. ‘How am I supposed to answer that?’‘Hopefully with a ch
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