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CHAPTER ONE

‘SEBASTIEN FIORUKIS?’ Alesia gaped at her grandfather, the grandfather who had been a stranger to her in all but reputation for her whole life ‘In exchange for the money I need, you expect me to marry Sebastien Fiorukis?’

‘Precisely’ Alesia’s grandfather sled to find her voice and fought to control the torrent of eed up inside her Whatever she’d expected when she’d been working up the courage to tackle her grandfather, it hadn’t been that

Fiorukis The Greek tycoon who had taken his father’s moderately successful business and built it into a corporation that rivalled that of her grandfather; the billionaire reputed to be every bit as ruthless as her grandfather; the man who moved betomen at a speed faster than the cars he drove and the jets he flew The man who—

‘You can’t be serious!’ She looked up, her teeth gritted and her eyes stinging The very thought made her feel sick ‘The Fiorukis family was responsible for the death of my father—’

And she despised therandfather

AsGreek

‘And because of that, randfather said harshly ‘Now I shall ensure the same fate for the Fiorukis family If he marries you then it will end with the son, just as mine did’

Alesia stopped breathing, rigid with shock He knew

Somehow he knew

The file she was holding dropped froers and papers scattered across the marble floor She didn’t notice

As the full implication of his words sank into her shocked brain, her face paled and her voice was little more than a whisper ‘You know that I can’t have children—?’

How could he kno could he be party to such an intimate, personal detail?

All her life she’d kept that inforht salve to her pain had been that her anguish was her own—that no one would pity her

She stared at hi and full of purpose Now suddenly she felt vulnerable and exposed Stripped naked in front of a er from her childhood

Thatsatisfaction in his hard eyes