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The Tycoon's Outrageous Proposal
Miranda Lee
'There’s nothing more desirable than a woman who wants you, despite herself.'Australian tycoon and international playboy Byron Maddox is used to getting what he wants. And for some reason, he wants shy PA Cleo Shelton.Cleo is sure it’s only because she turned him down – finally free of an abusive marriage, Cleo is enjoying her independence, and has no intention of being under the thumb of another man! Especially a man she finds irresistibly alluring…But Byron won’t be thwarted so easily – and when he proposes one sizzling night together, Cleo’s resistance is crumbling under the force of his expert seduction!
“There’s nothing more desirable than a woman who wants you, despite herself.”
Australian tycoon and international playboy Byron Maddox is used to getting what he wants. And for some reason, he wants shy PA Cleo Shelton.
Cleo is sure it’s only because she turned him down—finally free of an abusive marriage, Cleo is enjoying her independence, and has no intention of being under the thumb of another man! Especially a man she finds irresistibly alluring...
But Byron won’t be thwarted so easily—and when he proposes one sizzling night together, Cleo’s resistance crumbles under the force of his expert seduction!
‘I want to be alone with you, Cleo.’
Cleo sucked in a sharp breath. ‘Why?’ she blurted out before she could stop herself.
‘You know why,’ Bryon said quietly.
‘You...you want to have sex with me?’ It sounded incredible once she’d said it out loud. Cleo knew she wanted to have sex with him but had never imagined her desire was returned.
‘Yes, of course I do.’
His casual admission took her breath away. It also angered her.
‘I’ve wanted to have sex with you since thirty seconds after I met you,’ he added with a rueful smile in his voice and on his face.
If his earlier admission had taken her breath away, this one left her speechless.
‘Are you going to say something?’ he queried when she just sat there in stunned silence for several seconds.
‘But why?’
‘Why?’ he echoed thoughtfully. ‘Perhaps it’s because I glimpsed the real you underneath the drab facade.’
‘The real me?’ What on earth was he talking about?
‘The one who stared at me for a split second like I was a drink of water after a long and dusty desert trek.’
‘Oh,’ she said, embarrassed now.
‘There’s nothing more desirable,’ he said, ‘than a woman who wants you despite herself.’
Marrying a Tycoon
Australia’s most eligible tycoons
meet their match at the altar!
Magnate Scott McAllister believes he has the perfect
compliant wife—until she defies him! Suddenly he
discovers the passionate nature she hides...
and is determined to awaken it!
The Magnate’s Tempestuous Marriage
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Tycoon Byron Maddox doesn’t do commitment, but shy PA Cleo intrigues him instantly! He wants her in his bed—but will he want her to wear his ring?
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The Tycoon’s Outrageous Proposal
Miranda Lee
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
Born and raised in the Australian bush, MIRANDA LEE was boarding-school-educated, and briefly pursued a career in classical music before moving to Sydney and embracing the world of computers. Happily married, with three daughters, she began writing when family commitments kept her at home. She likes to create stories that are believable, modern, fast-paced and sexy. Her interests include meaty sagas, doing word puzzles, gambling and going to the movies.
Books by Miranda Lee
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Taken Over by the Billionaire
A Man Without Mercy
Master of Her Virtue
Contract with Consequences
The Man Every Woman Wants
Not a Marrying Man
A Night, A Secret...A Child
Marrying a Tycoon
The Magnate’s Tempestuous Marriage
Rich, Ruthless and Renowned
The Italian’s Ruthless Seduction
The Billionaire’s Ruthless Affair
The Playboy’s Ruthless Pursuit
Three Rich Husbands
The Billionaire’s Bride of Vengeance
The Billionaire’s Bride of Convenience
The Billionaire’s Bride of Innocence
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk (http://millsandboon.co.uk/) for more titles.
Contents
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Back Cover Text (#u8b710c85-f62c-5373-84a2-72a18ad1d721)
Introduction (#u5dfbc4af-5122-582f-9346-894d78e7ccc5)
Marrying a Tycoon (#u12a3adec-291f-571a-9d13-5381936ebef8)
Title Page (#u996d8049-9434-5008-be81-de47fa899962)
About the Author (#u73ccd92a-039e-5db4-9824-02d5e1d6407b)
CHAPTER ONE (#u86b9dcac-d84b-53fc-b10b-2c5623b0b215)
CHAPTER TWO (#ubf6be5ab-5074-5041-a1e9-dd0d042d2d4e)
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CHAPTER ONE (#ubf781045-6c63-5020-b455-f49bb178dd59)
CLEO DIDN’T CRY when she placed the flowers on her husband’s grave. She’d cried buckets that morning, once she realised she’d forgotten the anniversary of Martin’s death. When she explained to her very concerned boss that she always visited Martin’s grave with her mother-in-law on the anniversary of his death, he’d given her the rest of the day off, insisting that she collect Doreen and go.
So here she was with her eyes strangely dry whilst Martin’s mother cried buckets instead.
Maybe she was all cried out. Or maybe—just maybe—she’d finished with grieving. She’d loved Martin. In the end. And in the beginning. But there’d been that awful time in the middle when she hadn’t loved him at all. Hard to stay in love with a man who tried to run every aspect of your life, from where you worked to what you wore and who your friends were. At home, it had been just as bad. From the day they were married, Martin took control of the money, paid all the bills, and made all the decisions.
Her own fault, of course. At first, she’d liked his ‘take control’ attitude, had thought it manly. His decisiveness had appealed to her own lack of confidence and maturity. She’d been engaged at twenty, married at twenty-one. Just a baby, really, in more ways than one.
But all babies eventually grew up, and she’d come to see how stifling it was being married to a man who wanted you to stay totally dependent on him, who wouldn’t even let you have a baby until the mortgage was totally paid off so he could afford for you to be a full-time stay-at-home mother, a prospect that hadn’t appealed to Cleo. She’d liked her job in the marketing section of McAllister Mines, despite it having been chosen for her by Martin, solely because he’d worked there in the accounts division.
Cleo had made the momentous decision to leave Martin on the very day when he’d told her that he’d been diagnosed with cancer, a particularly aggressive melanoma, which the doctor had warned might not be curable.
