His seduction had life-changing consequences
Now her boss is backâwith marriage in mind!
Personal assistant Merry Armstrong couldnât resist Angel Valtinosâs sensual charisma. The Greek awakened her with his touch and left her pregnant! When Angel discovers his heir, duty compels him to act. Despite Merryâs independence, Valtinosâs legacy must be legitimizedâand seducing her into becoming his wife will be his biggest challenge!
LYNNE GRAHAM was born in Northern Ireland and has been a keen romance reader since her teens. She is very happily married to an understanding husband who has learned to cook since she started to write! Her five children keep her on her toes. She has a very large dog, who knocks everything over, a very small terrier, who barks a lot, and two cats. When time allows, Lynne is a keen gardener.
Also by Lynne Graham
Claimed for the Leonelli Legacy
His Queen by Desert Decree
Brides for the Taking miniseries
The Desert Kingâs Blackmailed Bride
The Italianâs One-Night Baby Sold for the Greekâs Heir
Vows for Billionaires miniseries
The Secret Valtinos Baby
And look out for the next book
Castiglioneâs Pregnant Princess
Available April 2018
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ISBN: 978-1-474-07169-7
THE SECRET VALTINOS BABY
© 2018 Lynne Graham
Published in Great Britain 2018
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CHAPTER ONE
THE GREEK BILLIONAIRE, Angel Valtinos, strode into his fatherâs office suite to find both his brothers waiting in Reception and he stopped dead, ebony brows skating up. âWhat is this? A family reunion?â
âOr Papa is planning to carpet us for something,â his Italian half-brother, Prince Vitale Castiglione, commented with perceptible amusement because they were all beyond the age where parental disapproval was a normal source of concern.
âDoes he make a habit of that?â Zac Da Rocha demanded with a frown.
Angel met Vitaleâs eyes and his jawline squared, neither passing comment. Zac, their illegitimate Brazilian sibling, was pretty much a wild card. As he was a new and rather mysterious addition to the family circle his brothers had yet to fully accept him. And trust came no more easily to the suspicious Angel than it did to Vitale.
Vitale grinned. âYouâre the eldest,â he reminded Angel. âYou get top billing and first appearance.â
âNot sure I want it on this occasion,â Angel conceded, but he swiftly shrugged off the faint and comically unfamiliar sense of unease assailing his innately rock-solid confidence.
After all, Charles Russell had never played the heavy father in his sonsâ lives, but even without exercising that authority he had still been a remarkably decent father, Angel conceded reflectively. Charles had not stayed married to either his or Vitaleâs mother for very long but he had taken a keen interest post-divorce in fostering and maintaining a close relationship with his sons. Angel had often had cause to be grateful for his fatherâs stable approach to life and the shrewd business brain he suspected he had inherited from him. His mother was a thoroughly flighty and frivolous Greek heiress, whose attitude to childcare and education would have been careless without his fatherâs stipulations on his sonâs behalf.