Nine months to save their marriage!
Nik Christakis had once been her Prince Charming, the indecently rich and devilishly handsome tycoon who took Betsy away from her life as a waitress and did the unimaginableâmade her his wife! But married life wasnât the fantasy sheâd envisioned.
Now, as her hand hovers over the divorce papers, Betsy sees something in her husbandâs eyesâ¦a glimmer of the man she first fell in love with. But when this encounter ends in reckless passion, Betsy is left with two very unexpected consequences that will forever tie her to the man she was determined to forget!
âI gather you want to talk.â
Nik spun back to her with the liquid grace of movement that had always caught her eye and frowned at her, black brows drawn down, wide, sensual mouth twisting in dismissal.
âNo. I donât want to talk,â he told Betsy abruptly, before he tossed back the finger of Scotch whisky he had poured neat and set down the empty glass again.
âThen whyâ?â she began in confusion.
âSe theloâ¦I want you,â he heard himself admit, before he was even aware that the words were on his tongue.
So Nikâso explosively unpredictable, Betsy reasoned abstractedly, colour rushing into her cheeks as a hot wave of awareness engulfed her. Jewel-bright eyes assailed hers in an almost physical collision, and something low and intimate in her body clenched hard. Her legs turned so weak she wasnât convinced they were still there to hold her up, but she was held in stasis by the intensity of his narrowed green gaze.
âAnd you want me,â he told her thickly.
THE LEGACIES OF POWERFUL MEN
Three tenets to live by: money, power and the ruthless pursuit of passion!
Cristo Ravelli, Nik Christakis and Zarif al-Rastani know better than most the double-edged sword of their inheritance. Watching their father move from one wife to another, leaving their mothers devastated in his wake, has hardened each of these men against the lure of love.
But, despite their best efforts to live by the principles of money, power and passion, they find themselves entangled with three women who challenge the one thing theyâve protected all these yearsâ¦
Their hearts!
Read Cristoâs story in:
RAVELLIâS DEFIANT BRIDE June 2014
Read Nikâs story in:
CHRISTAKISâS REBELLIOUS WIFE July 2014
And read Zarifâs story in:
ZARIFâS CONVENIENT QUEEN August 2014!
LYNNE GRAHAM was born in Northern Ireland and has been a keen Mills & Boon® reader since her teens. She is very happily married, with an understanding husband who has learned to cook since she started to write! Her five children keep her on her toes. She has a very large dog, which knocks everything over, a very small terrier, which barks a lot, and two cats. When time allows, Lynne is a keen gardener.
Recent titles by the same author:
RAVELLI'S DEFIANT BRIDE
(The Legacies of Powerful Men) THE DIMITRAKOS PROPOSITION CHALLENGING DANTE (A Bride for a Billionaire) THE BILLIONAIRE'S TROPHY (A Bride for a Billionaire)
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To my daughter Rachel with warm appreciation for all her support.
CHAPTER ONE
âA DIVORCE CAN be civilised,â Cristo Ravelli pronounced in a tone of studious tact.
Nik Christakis almost vented a derisive laugh at such a statement from the brother barely two months his senior. In reality only genuine respect for his sibling kept his cutting tongue silent. After all, what could Cristo possibly know about the blood and mayhem of a bitter divorce? Cristo was a newly and very happily married man without that experience...or that of many other unpleasant life events, in Nikâs considered opinion. As a result, Cristo was as solid and straight as a ruler; he had no corners, no twists, no hidden places. He had no more concept of Nikâs infinitely more complex and darker life experience than a dinosaur catapulted into a fairy story full of fluffy wings and magic.
âI know youâre probably wondering where I get the nerve to offer advice,â Cristo remarked shrewdly. âBut you and Betsy did once have a good relationship and ratcheting down the current tension and cooling the aggro would be healthier for both of youââ
âThen you should be delighted to hear that Betsy and I are having a face-to-face meeting tomorrow in the presence of our lawyers in an effort to iron out a settlement,â Nik growled, his lean, darkly handsome features grim and hard.
âItâs only money, Nik, and... Dio mio...â Cristo sighed, thinking wryly of the vast business empire that his workaholic tycoon brother had built from the ground up â...you have plenty of itââ
Nik ground his perfect white teeth together, his unusually light green eyes flashing bright with barely restrained fury. âThatâs not the point!â he cut in harshly. âBetsyâs trying to take me to the cleaners and steal half of everything I haveââ