Wedding bells ring for the Montanari family â¦
by Mills & Boon Romance bestselling author
Rebecca Winters!
Brother and sister Valentina and Rinieri Montanari have never had time for loveâin the Montanari family, work comes before everything else.
Yet when romance blossoms unexpectedly, will they both find themselves saying âI doâ?
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Let Rebecca Winters enchant you with this heartwarming and emotional duet!
CHAPTER ONE
âSIGNOR MONTANARI?â
Rini was just getting in the limo. He looked around in the direction of one of the reporters whoâd followed him outside the doors of the fourteenth-century Palazzo Colonna in Rome. Dozens of them had assembled to cover the European Congress of Businessmen.
âA moment of your time, per favoreâone piece of news I can use for my lead story in La Repubblica?â
Why not?
âSince Italy imports almost all of its hydrocarbon demand, a doubling of domestic production would help the country reduce its energy bill. Iâm planning to find them in Italy.â
âWhere?â
âThatâs my secret for now.â
The reporter beamed for having been given a partial scoop. âMille grazie, signor.â
He nodded and closed the door before his driver took him to the heliport for the flight to his mountaintop villa in Positano, on the Amalfi Coast. Now that the two-day September conference covering the economic problems facing Europe was over, Rini was eager to explore his latest project. On Monday heâd be leaving for the coast of Southern Italy, but tonight he had other plans.
Once the helicopter landed on the pad behind his villa, he jumped down and found his housekeeper, Bianca, out by the pool watering the tubs of flowers. She looked up when she saw him.
âWelcome back.â
âItâs good to be home.â
âHowâs your father?â
âWell as can be expected.â Rini had flown to Naples after yesterdayâs session and spent the night with his papà , who seemed to be handling the loss of Riniâs mother a little better these days. Sheâd been the heart of their home and Rini would always miss her happy, optimistic spirit.
âWas the conference beneficial?â
âIâm not sure beneficial is the right word. Chilling would be more accurate. Europe is in trouble economically, but Iâd rather not think about that tonight.â
âDo you want dinner?â
âIâd love one of your meals, but Iâm meeting Guido tonight. Itâs his birthday.â His best friend from childhood, the son of Leonides Rossano, who owned Rossano shipping lines, had texted him earlier in the day:
The parents are throwing a party for me on the yacht. Please say you can make it. I know youâre at a conference, but I need your advice about something serious. By the time you arrive it will be breaking up so we can talk in private.
The message sounded serious, even for Guido, who clearly wasnât in a celebratory mood. He obviously had no plans for the weekend with a woman. His friend was as bad as Rini, who had no plans in that department, either. The two of them made quite a pair, but for entirely different reasons.
Guido was still looking for the right woman who hadnât come along yet. Rini didnât have the same problem. The right woman wasnât out there for him because she wouldnât want him when he had to tell her he was infertile. An old soccer injury heâd suffered in his youth had made it impossible for him to give any woman a child.
The pain of that realization had grown worse with every passing year, increasing his dissatisfaction with his own personal life. Whenever he did meet a woman he cared about, he held back, not allowing the relationship to develop into something deeper. It always came down to his fear she would reject him if she knew the truth.
Heâd been denying his deep-seated needs for such a long time, heâd forgotten what real fulfillment was like. Since his sister Valentinaâthe mother of two children and now ecstatically marriedâhad recently moved out of his villa, his unhappiness had deepened.