Michelle Reid

The De Santis Marriage


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own money, and his ego would stay firmly intact.

      ‘She will come back,’ she promised. ‘She just needs time to—sort her head out.’

      ‘Not her heart?’ The dry distinction made Lizzy wince.

      ‘I’m sure she loves you,’ she persisted. ‘She’s just not ready to commit to marriage. If you just give her time, then I—’

      Black eyebrows with a fascinating silken gloss arched her a curious look. ‘Are you actually standing there, Miss Hadley, suggesting that I should wait for Bianca to sort her head out?’

      Well, was she? Lifting her chin, ‘If you love her—yes,’ she insisted.

      ‘Then you are a romantic fool because it is not going to happen.’ He moved suddenly, straightening away from the desk. ‘There is a wedding arranged for next Saturday morning and I intend to make sure that it goes ahead.’

      Without a bride? Lizzy stared at him. ‘You mean—you’re going to find her and drag her back to marry you?’ A silly kind of laugh left her throat at the very image of Bianca being dragged by this man down the church aisle kicking and screaming.

      ‘No.’ Reaching behind him, his long fingers picked Bianca’s letter up again—this time to fold it with slow, neat precision. ‘I mean to replace her with someone else.’

      She was pretty much held in his thrall by now. ‘Just like that?’

      ‘Just like that.’ He nodded and made her gasp as he ripped the letter into small pieces, then calmly dropped them into the waste-paper basket standing by the desk.

      It was such a cold act of dismissal of Bianca and everything she should mean to him that Lizzy began to feel slightly sick.

      ‘You will have to move quickly to put your life in order, of course, but with my assistance I think it can be achieved in time.’

      She dragged her eyes up from the discarded pieces of paper. It took a few seconds for his words to actually sink in— then they did sink in and Lizzy took a jerky step backwards.

      ‘M-my life is fine as it is.’

      ‘I don’t doubt it,’ he acknowledged. ‘But will it be fine by tomorrow when I inform the authorities that your brother has emptied your company bank account?’

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