Claiming His Convenient Fiancée
The millionaire’s temporary engagement!Impulsive Catriona Parkes-Wilson must retrieve a forgotten family heirloom, and if that means breaking into the mansion she grew up in, so be it! But she never expected to get caught by the house’s hot-tempered new owner, Alejandro Martinez, nor be forced into posing as his date for one night!Desire rips through Alejandro the minute he sees Kitty, her reckless abandon igniting an animal urge to take her as his own. So when Kitty is mistaken as his fiancée, Alejandro is determined to take full advantage – and unleash the powerful hunger that rages between them!
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The millionaire’s temporary engagement!
Impulsive Catriona Parkes-Wilson must retrieve a forgotten family heirloom, and if that means breaking into the mansion she grew up in, so be it! But she never expected to get caught by the house’s hot-tempered new owner, Alejandro Martinez, nor be forced into posing as his date for one night!
Desire rips through Alejandro the minute he sees Kitty, her reckless abandon igniting an animal urge to take her as his own. So when Kitty is mistaken as his fiancée, Alejandro is determined to take full advantage—and unleash the powerful hunger that rages between them!
‘We’re engaged?’ Alejandro sent Catriona a look.
With the bright lights gleaming from the house, this one was easy to interpret. He was amused?
‘It’s your fault,’ she declared, instantly defensive. ‘I was trying not to be predictable. You dared me.’
‘So it’s my fault?’
‘This entire mess is your fault.’ She nodded firmly.
He slowly stepped closer. ‘You don’t feel any responsibility, given you’re the one who broke in and tried to steal from me?’
‘I didn’t break in; I used a key. And I wasn’t stealing anything that belongs to you.’
‘No? I wonder…’ He was watching her closely, and then his smile returned, slow and seductive. ‘Catriona, you are going to pay for this, you know.’
‘Not in the way you’re thinking.’
He laughed and stepped nearer so he was right in her personal space. ‘Very much in the way I’m thinking. You think these sparks can be ignored?’
NATALIE ANDERSON adores a happy ending. So you can be sure you’ve got a happy ending in your hands right now—because she promises nothing less. Along with happy endings she loves peppermint-filled dark chocolate, pineapple juice and extremely long showers. Not to mention spending hours teasing her imaginary friends with dating dilemmas. She tends to torment them before eventually relenting and offering—you guessed it—a happy ending. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, with her gorgeous husband and four fabulous children.
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Books by Natalie Anderson
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
The Forgotten Gallo Bride
Tycoon’s Terms of Engagement Blame It on the Bikini
The Throne of San Felipe
The Secret That Shocked De Santis
The Mistress That Tamed De Santis
Mills & Boon Modern Tempted
Whose Bed Is It Anyway?
The Right Mr Wrong Waking Up in the Wrong Bed First Time Lucky?
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FRENETIC DRUM AND bass reverberated down the dark street. Irritation pulsed along Kitty Parkes-Wilson’s veins, keeping time with the relentless beat. It was too much to hope the neighbours would complain; no doubt they were wishing they could be at the party, all desperate to suck up to the rich new blood on the block.
Alejandro Martinez. Former management consultant turned venture capitalist. Millionaire. Promiscuous playboy. Party animal. And, since signing the documents three days ago, proud owner of the beautiful building in the heart of London that had, until said three days ago, been her family home. The home she’d grown up in, the one that had been in the family for more than five generations until her father had seized the wad of cash Alejandro Martinez had waved under his nose and skipped off to his sunny retirement villa in Corsica with his third picture-book-pretty wife. He’d cleared his debts and abandoned his failed business—and floored children.
All of which Kitty could handle. Just. Anyway, as much as she’d have liked to, the fact was she couldn’t have bought Parkes House herself. But she hadn’t even been told before it had been sold, and something had inadvertently been left in the Edwardian mansion. Something her father didn’t own and had no right to sell. And that she couldn’t cope with. Kitty Parkes-Wilson was on a retrieval mission and nothing and no one was going to stop her.
It wasn’t the necklace’s material worth that made it so important. Its loss meant her twin, Teddy, was in trouble, and her own heart was in trouble.
‘You can’t do this.’
She grinned at the way her brother could sound both aghast and excited.
‘You can’t stop me—I’m already here,’ she answered in a low voice, pressing her phone closer to her ear as she slowed down her pace just before arriving at her former home. ‘And you know I can do it.’
