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Buying His Bride Of Convenience
Michelle Smart
Daniele Pellegrini must wed or lose his family inheritance. Eva Bergen is the perfect candidate for three reasons:1. Her body is pure temptation2. She can’t reject his outrageous charitable donation in exchange for their vows.3. Most importantly, she can’t stand him – this hard-hearted tycoon won’t risk his wife falling in love!When Eva’s first youthful marriage ended in tragedy, she buried any hope of loving again. She’s certain she’ll have no problem keeping her second marriage on purely convenient terms…until her husband changes the rules with his expertly ruthless seduction!Book 3 in the Bound to a Billionaire trilogy
Daniele Pellegrini must wed or lose his family inheritance. Eva Bergen is the perfect candidate for three reasons:
1. Her body is pure temptation.
2. She can’t reject his outrageous charitable donation in exchange for their vows.
3. Most important, she can’t stand him—this hard-hearted tycoon won’t risk his wife falling in love with him!
When Eva’s first youthful marriage ended in tragedy, she buried any hope of loving again. She’s certain she’ll have no problem keeping her second marriage on purely convenient terms...until her husband changes the rules with his expertly ruthless seduction!
‘If you agree to marry me, this money—all one million dollars of it—will be handed to the Blue Train Aid Agency tomorrow morning. And that is only the start.’
‘The start?’ Eva asked faintly, looking back at all that lovely money.
‘Agree to marry me and this money goes directly to your charity. On the day of our marriage I will transfer another two million into their account, and a further three million dollars for every year of our marriage.’
Eva’s head spun. Had she slipped into some kind of vortex that distorted reality?
She shook her head and took a breath. ‘You want to pay me to be your wife?’
‘Yes.’
‘Why would you want to marry me?’
‘It’s nothing to do with want. It’s to do with need. I need a wife.’
‘You’ve already said that. But why would you choose me for the role when there are hundreds of women out there who would take the job without having to be bribed into it? Why marry someone who doesn’t even like you?’
There was no point in pretending. She didn’t like him and he damn well knew it.
‘That is the exact reason why I want you to take the role.’
‘You’ve lost me.’
A tight smile played on Daniele’s lips. ‘I don’t want to marry someone who’s going to fall in love with me.’
Bound to a Billionaire (#ud9a1c7ce-ae91-55a7-8593-20efb6e66f41)
Claimed by the most powerful of men!
Felipe Lorenzi, Matteo Manaserro and Daniele Pellegrini.
Three powerful billionaires who want for nothing—in business or in bed. But nothing and no one can touch their closely guarded hearts.
That is until Francesca, Natasha and Eva are each bound to a billionaire...and prove to be a challenge these delicious alpha males can’t resist!
Don’t miss Michelle Smart’s stunning trilogy.
Read Felipe and Francesca’s story in
Protecting His Defiant Innocent
Matteo and Natasha’s story in
Claiming His One-Night Baby
&
Daniele and Eva’s story in
Buying His Bride of Convenience
All available now!
Buying His Bride of Convenience
Michelle Smart
www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)
MICHELLE SMART’s love affair with books started when she was a baby, and she would cuddle them in her cot. A voracious reader of all genres, she found her love of romance established when she stumbled across her first Mills & Boon book at the age of twelve. She’s been reading—and writing them ever since. Michelle lives in Northamptonshire, England, with her husband and two young Smarties.
Books by Michelle Smart
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Once a Moretti Wife The Perfect Cazorla Wife The Russian’s Ultimatum
Bound to a Billionaire
Protecting His Defiant Innocent
Claiming His One-Night Baby
Brides for Billionaires
Married for the Greek’s Convenience
One Night With Consequences
Claiming His Christmas Consequence
Wedlocked!
Wedded, Bedded, Betrayed
The Kalliakis Crown
Talos Claims His Virgin
Theseus Discovers His Heir
Helios Crowns His Mistress
Society Weddings
The Greek’s Pregnant Bride
The Irresistible Sicilians
What a Sicilian Husband Wants
The Sicilian’s Unexpected Duty
Taming the Notorious Sicilian
Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk (http://millsandboon.co.uk/) for more titles.
To the always amazing Nic Caws.
thanks for everything you do—your encouragement and enthusiasm never fail to lift my spirits xxx
Contents
Cover (#ufe8eed2d-f325-515b-965b-abb5c86e1901)
Back Cover Text (#u03f8f660-2f5d-5ba6-ae1a-0a031b64d74f)
Introduction (#u95b96b8e-cd9c-52d3-a8f7-4b60f74d4a93)
Bound to a Billionaire (#u843e93ea-419e-523b-9926-dc64b76f1bb3)
Title Page (#u90022ee3-45b2-5e70-bd60-220969ac1b36)
About the Author (#ue1d00d67-271a-5ed6-bf1c-138f6fd7ffd9)
Dedication (#ua09cdcbe-5c9a-5441-a6f8-481df81e56f7)
CHAPTER ONE (#u9830024e-d066-5158-a9a1-f8fcff8f0b90)
CHAPTER TWO (#u86b037e6-8e58-5b5c-9589-a75a71a60d5b)
CHAPTER THREE (#u8ad752b4-b540-5c6e-b601-c17caf77e32b)
CHAPTER FOUR (#ud9888a71-12d1-596e-9e9f-1ab116d7af30)
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CHAPTER ONE (#ud9a1c7ce-ae91-55a7-8593-20efb6e66f41)
‘WILL YOU KEEP STILL?’ Eva Bergen told the man sitting on the stool before her. She’d staunched the bleeding from the wound on the bridge of his nose and had the tiny sterilised strips ready to close it up. What should be a relatively simple procedure was being hampered by his right foot tapping away and jerking the rest of his body.
He glared at her through narrowed eyes, the right one of which was swollen and turning purple. ‘Just get it done.’
‘Do you want me to close this up or not? I’m not a nurse and I need to concentrate, so keep still.’
He took a long breath, clenched his jaw together and fixed his gaze at the distance over her shoulder. She guessed he must have clenched all the muscles in his legs too as his foot finally stopped tapping.
Taking her own deep breath, Eva leaned forward on her stool, which she’d had to raise so she could match his height, then hesitated. ‘Are you sure you don’t want one of the medics to look at it? I’m sure it’s broken.’
‘Just get it done,’ he repeated tersely.
Breathing through her mouth so she didn’t inhale his scent and taking great care not to touch him anywhere apart from his nose, she put the first strip on the wound.
It was amazing that even with a busted nose Daniele Pellegrini still managed to look impeccably suave. The quiff of his thick, dark brown hair was still perfectly placed, his hand-tailored suit perfectly pressed. He could still look in a mirror and wink at his reflection.
He was a handsome man. She didn’t think there was a female aid worker at the refugee camp who hadn’t done a double-take when he’d made his first appearance there a month ago. This was only his second visit. He’d called her thirty minutes ago asking, without a word of greeting, if she was still at the camp. If he’d bothered to know anything about her he would’ve known she, like all the other staff based there, had their own quarters at the camp. He’d then said he was on his way and to meet him in the medical tent. He’d disconnected the call before she could ask what he wanted. She’d learned the answer to that herself when she’d made the short walk from the ramshackle administrative building she worked from to the main medical facility.
When Hurricane Ivor had first hit the Caribbean island of Caballeros, the Blue Train Aid Agency, which already had a large presence in the crime-ridden country, had been the first aid charity to set up a proper camp there. Now, two months after the biggest natural disaster the country had ever known and the loss of twenty thousand of its people, the camp had become home to an estimated thirty thousand people, with canvas tents, modular plastic shelters and makeshift shacks all tightly knit together. Other aid agencies had since set up at different sites and had similar numbers of displaced people living in their camps. It was a disaster on every level imaginable.
Daniele was the brother of the great philanthropist and humanitarian, Pieta Pellegrini. Pieta had seen the news about the hurricane and how the devastation had been amplified by the destruction of a large number of the island’s hospitals. He’d immediately decided that his foundation would build a new, disaster-proof, multi-functional hospital in the island’s capital, San Pedro. A week later he’d been killed in a helicopter crash.
