RELUCTANT WIFE 1

SYNOPSIS

‘I want you to have my baby. Give me an heir and I’ll offer Petros a deal which will save his skin!’

‘You must be mad! ’ Carrie floundered for words; she was so shocked by his proposition. ‘I couldn’t marry you!’

As he raised a dark, sardonic eyebrow Alexis’s low voice drifted across to her,

‘I want an heir, not a wife!’

But Petros had other ideas and Carrie and Alexis soon found themselves bound for a wedding neither of them wanted...

CHAPTER 1

A grey shadow of doubt settled unceremoniously onto Carrie’s slim shoulders. Was she doing the right thing? There zvas no other alternative. She’d gone over this with a fine-tooth comb since her return to Greece, and each time she’d come up with the same answer. Alexis Stephanides held the key; he was the only man rich enough!

‘Miss O’Riordan, Mr Stephanides will see you now,’ said the pleasant dark-haired girl, in heavily accented English, as she emerged from the office with CHAIRMAN engraved on the gold plaque of the heavy mahogany