Wedded, Bedded, Betrayed. Michelle Smart

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       ‘They’re forgeries.’

      ‘You know perfectly well they’re not. You’re up to your pretty neck in all this.’

      ‘I’m not up to my neck in anything.’ Elena wanted to scream.

      ‘You are. But there is a way for you to save yourself. And your father. And that is what I mean about you posing a dilemma for me.’

      ‘Go on.’

      ‘The lack of evidence to support my innocence is a setback for me.’

      ‘That’s because it doesn’t exist.’

      ‘If I’m such a master forger, don’t you think I would fake it?’ Gabriele demanded. ‘Your father is a meticulous record-keeper. It’s out there somewhere and I will find it … Or I could be persuaded to forget the whole thing. With the right incentive I could also be persuaded to destroy the evidence I copied last night rather than pass it on.’

      ‘What incentive are you talking about?’ she asked, her anger leaching out to be replaced with wariness.

      A smile curved his handsome face. ‘That, you will find, is the crucial question. To secure a healthy future for your father and the rest of your family you will have to do one very simple thing—you’ll have to marry me.’

Wedlocked!

       Conveniently wedded, passionately bedded!

      Whether there’s a debt to be paid, a will to be obeyed or a business to be saved …

      She’s got no choice but to say, ‘I do!’

      But these billionaire bridegrooms have got another think coming if they think marriage will be easy …

      Soon their convenient brides become the object of an inconvenient desire!

      Find out what happens after the vows in

      Untouched Until Marriage by Chantelle Shaw

      The Billionaire’s Defiant Acquisition by Sharon Kendrick

      One Night to Wedding Vows by Kim Lawrence

      Expecting a Royal Scandal by Caitlin Crews

      Look out for more Wedlocked! stories coming soon!

       Wedded, Bedded, Betrayed

      Michelle Smart

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      MICHELLE SMART’s love affair with books started when she was a baby, when 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 with her husband and two young Smarties.

      This book is for Renata—

       thanks for feeding my coffee addiction! xxx

      Contents

       Cover

       Introduction

Wedlocked!

       Title Page

       About the Author

       Dedication

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       EPILOGUE

       Endpage

       Extract

       Copyright

CHAPTER ONE

      THE SCREAM PIERCED through the silence of the Nutmeg Island chapel.

      Gabriele Mantegna, having just climbed up the stairs from the basement, came to an abrupt halt.

      Where the hell had that come from?

      He switched off his torch, plunging the chapel into complete darkness, and listened hard.

      Had that been a woman’s scream? Surely not? Tonight, only the armed security crew СКАЧАТЬ