âI donât desire you. Iâve never desired you.â Angeliqueâs eyes flashed pure venom at him. âI detest you.â
Remy caught a coil of her hair and tethered her to him. He watched as her grey-blue eyes flared and her tongue swept over her lips again. There was something incredibly arousing about her defiant stance. She pulled against his push. She had always stood up to him. Challenged him. Annoyed him. Goaded him.
âIâll have you eating out of my hand soon enough.â He gave her a confident smile. âYou wonât be able to resist.â
She grabbed her hair and tugged it out of his hold. âI canât believe youâre being so ruthless about this.â She continued to glare at him. âYou donât want me at all. You just want to win the upper hand.
âOh, I want you, all right, princess,â he drawled. âMake no mistake about that. And what I want I get. Every. Single. Time.â
âThen youâve met your match, Remy Caffarelli, because I bend my will to no man. If you want to sleep with me then youâll have to tie me to the bed first.â
Remy smiled a sinful smile. âI can hardly wait.â
THOSE SCANDALOUS CAFFARELLIS
Rich. Ruthless. Irresistible.
Brothers Rafe, Raoul and Remy are better known as the Three Rs:
1. Richâ
Italyâs most brilliant billionaires.
2. Ruthlessâ
theyâll do anything to protect their place at the top.
3. Irresistibleâ
their business prowess is rivalled only by their reputation in the bedroom.
(Just ask any glittering socialite theyâve ever met!)
You read Rafeâs story in: NEVER SAY NO TO A CAFFARELLI September 2013
Last month you read Raoulâs story in: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CAFFARELLI October 2013
This month read Remyâs story in: NEVER GAMBLE WITH A CAFFARELLI November 2013
From as soon as MELANIE MILBURNE could pick up a pen she knew she wanted to write. It was when she picked up her first Mills and Boon>® at seventeen that she realised she wanted to write romance. After being distracted for a few years by meeting and marrying her own handsome hero, surgeon husband Steve, and having two boys, plus completing a Masters of Education and becoming a nationally ranked athlete (masters swimming), she decided to write. Five submissions later she sold her first book and is now a multi-published, award-winning USA TODAY bestselling author. In 2008 she won the Australian Romance Readersâ Association most popular category/series romance, and in 2011 she won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia R*BY award.
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Recent titles by the same author:
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CAFFARELLI
(Those Scandalous Caffarellis) NEVER SAY NO TO A CAFFARELLI (Those Scandalous Caffarellis) HIS FINAL BARGAIN UNCOVERING THE SILVERI SECRET
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To my dear friend Heather Last, whom I met on the first day of kindergarten a very long time ago!
Thank you for always being my friend and for being one of the first people to say:
âYou should write!â
Much love. xx
CHAPTER ONE
âWHAT DO YOU mean you lost it?â Angelique stared at her father in abject horror.
Henri Marchand gave a negligent shrug but she could see his Adamâs apple moving up and down as if heâd just had to swallow something unpleasant. But then, losing her late motherâs ancestral home in the highlands of Scotland in a poker game in Las Vegas was about as bitter a flavour as you could taste, Angelique supposed.
âI was doing all right until Remy Caffarelli tricked me into thinking he was on a losing streak,â he said. âWe played for hours with him losing just about every hand. I thought Iâd clean him up once and for all. I put down my best hand in a winner-takes-all deal but then he went and trumped it.â
Angelique felt her spine turn to ice and her blood heat to boiling. âTell me you did not lose Tarrantloch to Remy Caffarelli.â He was her worst enemy. The one man she would do anything to avoidâto avoid even thinking about!
âIâll win it back.â Her father spouted the problem gamblerâs credo with arrogant confidence. âIâll challenge him to another game. Iâll up the stakes. He wonât be able to resist anotherââ
âAnd lose even more?â She threw him an exasperated look. âHe set you up. Canât you see that? Heâs always had you in his sights but you made it a hundred times worse, sabotaging his hotel development in Spain. How could you have fallen for such a trick?â
âIâll outsmart him this time. Youâll see. He thinks heâs so clever but Iâll get him back where it really hurts.â
Angelique rolled her eyes and turned away. Her stomach felt as if it had been scraped out with a rusty spoon. How could her father have lost her beloved motherâs ancestral home to Remy Caffarelli? Tarrantloch wasnât even his to lose! It was supposed to be held in trust for her until she turned twenty-five, less than a year from now.