His Merciless Marriage Bargain
The Italian’s shock heir…Raising her sister’s child has left Rachel Bern penniless and desperate. Her orphaned nephew’s family have ignored her attempts at contact, so she has no choice but to bring him to the Marcellos' Venetian door.Losing his brother has devastated Giovanni Marcello. Rachel’s news is another bombshell, and he can’t believe that she doesn’t have an ulterior motive. One kiss should unravel her deception—until their smouldering chemistry has Gio reconsidering…Gio exacts a high price for acknowledging his heir, but Rachel cannot help but succumb to his outrageous demands. Even if it means walking down the aisle!
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The Italianâs shock heir...
Raising her sisterâs child has left Rachel Bern penniless and desperate. Since her orphaned nephewâs family has ignored her attempts at contact, she has no choice but to bring him to the Marcellosâ Venetian door.
Losing his brother devastated Giovanni Marcello. Rachelâs news is another bombshell, and he canât believe that she doesnât have an ulterior motive. One kiss should unravel her deception, until their smoldering chemistry has Gio reconsidering...
Gio exacts a high price for acknowledging his heir, but Rachel cannot help but succumb to his outrageous demands. Even if it means walking down the aisle!
âThis is my city and my home, and you are the outsider here. If there is to be a story, itâs going to be my story, not yours,â Gio answered, reaching out to lift a dark glossy tendril of hair from Rachelâs cheek.
He felt carnal and hungry. Desire ran hot in his veins.
âThe only story is the truth. You have a nephew you refuse to acknowledge, never mind support.â
âBut is he my nephew?â
âYes, you know he is. Iâve sent you the birth certificate and we can do a DNA test while Iâm hereââ
âProving what?â he retorted. Before she could answer, he reached for her again, his hand coiling in her long dark hair, tilting her head back to take her mouth in a long, searing kiss.
She didnât stiffen or resist. If anything, she leaned into him and he wrapped an arm around her slender frame holding her against him as he deepened the kiss, his tongue sweeping her mouth, tasting her, weakening her defenses. By the time he lifted his head, she was silent, no fight left in her. Her wide brown eyes looked up into his.
âYou should never underestimate your opponent, Rachel,â he said quietly, running his thumb lightly across her soft flushed cheek. âAnd you most definitely shouldnât have underestimated me.â
Conveniently Wed!
Conveniently wedded, passionately bedded!
Whether thereâs a debt to be paid, a will to be obeyed or a business to be saved⦠sheâs got no choice but to say, âI do!â
But these billionaire bridegrooms have got another think coming if they think marriage will be that easyâ¦
Soon their convenient brides become the objects of an inconvenient desire!
Look out for these Conveniently Wed! stories
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Coming soon!
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author JANE PORTER has written forty romances and eleven womenâs fiction novels since her first sale to Mills & Boon in 2000. A five-time RITA® Award finalist, Jane is known for her passionate, emotional and sensual novels, and loves nothing more than alpha heroes, exotic locations and happy-ever-afters. Today Jane lives in sunny San Clemente, California, with her surfer husband and three sons. Visit janeporter.com.
Books by Jane Porter
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Bought to Carry His Heir
At the Greek Bossâs Bidding A Dark Sicilian Secret Duty, Desire and the Desert King At the Greek Bossâs Bidding Hollywood Husband, Contract Wife
The Disgraced Copelands
The Fallen Greek Bride
His Defiant Desert Queen Her Sinful Secret
A Royal Scandal
Not Fit for a King?
His Majestyâs Mistake
The Desert Kings
The Sheikhâs Chosen Queen
King of the Desert, Captive Bride
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk for more titles.
Contents
RACHEL BERN STOOD outside the imposing doors of the Palazzo Marcello shivering, the wind grabbing at her black coat and ponytail, sending both flying.
Overhead, thick gray clouds blanketed the sky and the rising tides sent water surging over the banks of the lagoon, wetting the streets of Venice, but the stormy weather wasnât so different from her weather in Seattle. Sheâd grown up with rain and damp. This morning she wasnât shivering from cold, but nerves.
This could go so very wrong. It could blow up in her face, leaving her and Michael in an even worse situation, but she was at her witâs end. If this didnât get Giovanni Marcelloâs attention, nothing would. Sheâd tried everything else, tried every other form of communication, but every attempt resulted in silence and the silence was destructive. Crushing. She was taking a huge risk, but what else could she do?
Giovanni Marcello, an Italian billionaire, was also one of the most reclusive businessmen in Italy. He rarely socialized. He had no direct email or phone, and when Rachel finally reached Signor Marcelloâs front office management, they were noncommittal about relaying messages to the CEO of the holding company, Marcello SpA. And so she was here, at the Palazzo Marcello in Venice, the familyâs home for the past two hundred years. Until the turn of the twentieth century, the Marcellos had been a shrewd, successful manufacturing family that had earned its place in society through hard work and wealth, but in the past forty years, the family had expanded from manufacturing and construction into real estate and, under the helm of Giovanni Marcello, investing in world markets. The Marcello fortune had quadrupled through Giovanniâs management, and they had become one of the most powerful and influential families in Italy.
