Buying His Bride Of Convenience

Daniele Pellegrini must wed or lose his family inheritance. Eva Bergen is the perfect candidate for three reasons:

1. Her body is pure temptation.

2. She can’t reject his outrageous charitable donation in exchange for their vows.

3. Most important, she can’t stand him—this hard-hearted tycoon won’t risk his wife falling in love with him!

When Eva’s first youthful marriage ended in tragedy, she buried any hope of loving again. She’s certain she’ll have no problem keeping her second marriage on purely convenient terms...until her husband changes the rules with his expertly ruthless seduction!

‘If you agree to marry me, this money—all one million dollars of it—will be handed to the Blue Train Aid Agency tomorrow morning. And that is only the start.’

‘The start?’ Eva asked faintly, looking back at all that lovely money.

‘Agree to marry me and this money goes directly to your charity. On the day of our marriage I will transfer another two million into their account, and a further three million dollars for every year of our marriage.’

Eva’s head spun. Had she slipped into some kind of vortex that distorted reality?

She shook her head and took a breath. ‘You want to pay me to be your wife?’

‘Yes.’

‘Why would you want to marry me?’

‘It’s nothing to do with want. It’s to do with need. I need a wife.’

‘You’ve already said that. But why would you choose me for the role when there are hundreds of women out there who would take the job without having to be bribed into it? Why marry someone who doesn’t even like you?’

There was no point in pretending. She didn’t like him and he damn well knew it.

‘That is the exact reason why I want you to take the role.’

‘You’ve lost me.’

A tight smile played on Daniele’s lips. ‘I don’t want to marry someone who’s going to fall in love with me.’

Bound to a Billionaire

Claimed by the most powerful of men!

Felipe Lorenzi, Matteo Manaserro and Daniele Pellegrini.

Three powerful billionaires who want for nothing—in business or in bed. But nothing and no one can touch their closely guarded hearts.

That is until Francesca, Natasha and Eva are each bound to a billionaire...and prove to be a challenge these delicious alpha males can’t resist!

Don’t miss Michelle Smart’s stunning trilogy.

Read Felipe and Francesca’s story in

Protecting His Defiant Innocent

Matteo and Natasha’s story in

Claiming His One-Night Baby

&

Daniele and Eva’s story in

Buying His Bride of Convenience

All available now!

Buying His Bride of Convenience

Michelle Smart

www.millsandboon.co.uk

MICHELLE SMART’s love affair with books started when she was a baby, and she would cuddle them in her cot. A voracious reader of all genres, she found her love of romance established when she stumbled across her first Mills & Boon book at the age of twelve. She’s been reading—and writing them ever since. Michelle lives in Northamptonshire, England, with her husband and two young Smarties.

Books by Michelle Smart

Mills & Boon Modern Romance

Once a Moretti Wife The Perfect Cazorla Wife The Russian’s Ultimatum

Bound to a Billionaire

Protecting His Defiant Innocent

Claiming His One-Night Baby

Brides for Billionaires

Married for the Greek’s Convenience

One Night With Consequences

Claiming His Christmas Consequence

Wedlocked!

Wedded, Bedded, Betrayed

The Kalliakis Crown

Talos Claims His Virgin

Theseus Discovers His Heir Helios Crowns His Mistress

Society Weddings

The Greek’s Pregnant Bride

The Irresistible Sicilians

What a Sicilian Husband Wants

The Sicilian’s Unexpected Duty Taming the Notorious Sicilian

Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.

To the always amazing Nic Caws.

thanks for everything you do—your encouragement and enthusiasm never fail to lift my spirits xxx

Contents

Cover

Back Cover Text

Introduction

Bound to a Billionaire

Title Page

About the Author

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

EPILOGUE

Extract

Copyright

CHAPTER ONE

‘WILL YOU KEEP STILL?’ Eva Bergen told the man sitting on the stool before her. She’d staunched the bleeding from the wound on the bridge of his nose and had the tiny sterilised strips ready to close it up. What should be a relatively simple procedure was being hampered by his right foot tapping away and jerking the rest of his body.

He glared at her through narrowed eyes, the right one of which was swollen and turning purple. ‘Just get it done.’

‘Do you want me to close this up or not? I’m not a nurse and I need to concentrate, so keep still.’

He took a long breath, clenched his jaw together and fixed his gaze at the distance over her shoulder. She guessed he must have clenched all the muscles in his legs too as his foot finally stopped tapping.

Taking her own deep breath, Eva leaned forward on her stool, which she’d had to raise so she could match his height, then hesitated. ‘Are you sure you don’t want one of the medics to look at it? I’m sure it’s broken.’