Sheâll be his wife...
But at what cost?
Billionaire Dante Vittori spent years building his impeccable reputationâno easy feat following his fatherâs incarceration. To counter a business threat, ruthless Dante must do the unthinkableâget married! Free-spirited heiress Alisha will do anything to save her motherâs charityâeven marry the man she hates. But neither expects the intense heat between them! Suddenly the price of their marriage is more than they bargained for...
Get swept away by this intense and emotional marriage of convenience!
TARA PAMMI canât remember a moment when she wasnât lost in a bookâespecially a romance, which was much more exciting than a mathematics textbook at school. Years later, Taraâs wild imagination and love for the written word revealed what she really wanted to do. Now she pairs alpha males who think they know everything with strong women who knock that theory and them off their feet!
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07273-1
SICILIANâS BRIDE FOR A PRICE
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For my very own hero, my husband Raghu.
Twenty is nothingâ
I could write a hundred heroes inspired by you.
CHAPTER ONE
DANTE VITTORI STARED at the legal document that had been delivered an hour ago. The floor-to-ceiling glass windows that made up three whole sides of his office on the forty-sixth floor of Matta Towers in Central London cast the luxurious space in an orange glow, thanks to the setting sun behind him.
Vikram Mattaâhis mentor Neel Mattaâs son and Danteâs best friendâwas now legally dead.
He felt a twinge in his chest for exactly one minute.
Heâd learned that grief, like regret, was a useless emotion. Heâd learned this at the age of thirteen when his father had killed himself instead of facing lifelong incarceration for his Ponzi scheme that had fleeced hundreds of people. Heâd learned this when his mother had simply changed her name back to her Sicilian fatherâs and married a man he approved of within a year of his fatherâs death.
Giving in to his emotions would have crushed Dante back then. Vikram was gone; heâd made his peace with it a long time ago.
Quickly, he rifled through the documents, to ensure he hadnât missed anything.
He was almost to the last couple of pages when he stilled.
Voting Shares of the Deceased
The hairs at the back of his neck prickled. His mind instantly rewound back to the conversation he and Vikram had had with Neel when Neel had found he hadnât much time to live.
Neel Matta had started Matta Steel, a small steel manufacturing business, almost forty years ago, but it was Dante who had grown it into the billion-dollar conglomerate it was now. Against his own brother, Nitinâs wishes, for the first time in the history of the company, Neel had granted his own voting shares to Dante, an outsider.