âI donât recall your having asked me to go out with you again,â Nina drawled derisively. âBut youâre quite right in assuming my answer would have been no if you had,â she continued firmly as he would have spoken. âItâs time to get back to the real world.â
âAnd your real world doesnât have a place in it for me?â
The only place Nina wanted Rafe in her life was one she could never have, and nor was it one he was interested in occupying. Rafe had never pretended to be anything other than what he was: a thirty-four-year-old very eligible and handsome bachelor, who enjoyed womenâlots of them.
Unfortunately Nina knew she wasnât made that wayâwhich was why it was better, for both of them, if this ended now. She had to end this before she lost her pride as well as her heart.
She raised her chin determinedly. âNot at this point in time, no.â
He raised dark brows. âAnd do you ever see a time when that might change â¦?â
âNo.â
One night was all they would have.
All theyâd had â¦
Because Nina had left him in no doubt that she considered the two of them already to be in the past tense â¦
THE DEVILISH DâANGELOS
Sinners named for saints â¦
Known around the world for the prestigious Archangel auction houses and galleries in London, New York and Paris, the DâAngelo brothers are notorious for their prowess in the art world ⦠and even more so for their exploits in their personal lives.
These Italian heartthrobs might have been named for angels, but their ruthless natures and powerful personas make them anything but angelic â¦
Soar to LONDON for Gabriel DâAngeloâs story in: A BARGAIN WITH THE ENEMY February 2014
Sail to NEW YORK for Raphael DâAngeloâs story in: A PRIZE BEYOND JEWELS March 2014
Fly to PARIS for Michael D âAngeloâs story in: A DâANGELO LIKE NO OTHER April 2014
Enter the exclusive world of the DâAngeloâs in this dazzling new trilogy from Carole Mortimer!
CAROLE MORTIMER was born in England, the youngest of three children. She began writing in 1978, and has now written over one hundred and fifty books for Harlequin Mills & Boon®. Carole has six sons: Matthew, Joshua, Timothy, Michael, David and Peter. She says, âIâm happily married to Peter senior; weâre best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.â Carole loves to hear from her readers. She can be reached at [email protected], or her website www.carolemortimer.co.uk
Recent titles by the same author:
A BARGAIN WITH THE ENEMY
(The Devilish D âAngelos) RUMOURS ON THE RED CARPET (Scandal in the Spotlight) A TOUCH OF NOTORIETY A TASTE OF THE FORBIDDEN (Buenos Aires Nights)
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PROLOGUE
St Maryâs Church, London.
âITâS NOT TOO late, Gabe,â Rafe drawled softly. The church was packed with his brotherâs softly chatting wedding guests as they waited for the bride to arrive.
âI checked earlier. Thereâs a door at the back of the vestry where you can escape...â
âShut up, Rafe.â His two brothers, one seated either side of Rafe, spoke together; Gabriel with the tension of the anxious bridegroom, and Michael with his customary terseness.
âHush, Rafe.â Their father spoke with soft warning from the pew behind them.
Rafe grinned unrepentantly. âThe jet is just sitting there on the tarmac at the airport, Gabe, and instead of flying off to the Caribbean for your honeymoon, you could just get the hell out of Dodge.â
âWill you just stop?â Gabriel turned to glare at him, his face white and strained as he waited for the start of the organ music that would announce the arrival of his bride at the church. Bryn was already five minutes late, and each minute had seemed like an hour, deepening the lines of tension in his brow.
Rafeâs grin widened as he relaxed back in the pew, having long considered teasing both of his brothers as being part of his role in life.
âYou and Michael would never have had any adventures at all if it werenât for me!â
âMarriage to Bryn is going to be biggest adventure of my life,â Gabriel assured him with certainty.
Rafe was aware of how many years his brother had been in love with Bryn, a love his brother had believed was doomed to remain unrequited until just a short month ago.
âSheâs gorgeous, Iâll admit that.â
âRafe, will you just stop winding him up?â Michael, the eldest of the three brothers, clipped abruptly as Gabrielâs hands clenched and unclenched. âWe donât need a fist fight between the groom and one of the best men to liven up the proceedings!â
âI was onlyââ Rafe broke off as the ringtone of his mobile jarred loudly in the relative silence of the church.