{"id":1911,"date":"2015-07-08T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/abbygreen\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=278"},"modified":"2015-08-25T20:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:43:32","slug":"mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-d18d8c2c81d10022ebd21ffa95322c35 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1911'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_two_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Description<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Kate Lancaster is a successful, glamorous model with the world at her feet. But she has a secret craving for a simpler life and true love.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, Kate lost her heart to Tiarnan Quinn, but he cruelly rejected her clumsy advances.<\/p>\n<p>Now, years later, Kate is a mature woman, and she\u2019s not about to let Tiarnan see that he still has an effect on her. But he does!<\/p>\n<p>Tiarnan Quinn sees a chink in Kate\u2019s armour and now he knows she wants him, he\u2019s not about to let her escape him again. 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src=\"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire-UK.jpg\" alt='' title='mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire-UK'  height=\"712\" width=\"450\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire-UK.jpg 450w, https:\/\/abby-green.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire-UK-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/abby-green.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mistress-to-the-merciless-millionaire-UK-446x705.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Mills &amp; Boon Modern Romance<\/strong><br \/>\nOctober 2009<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 0263864685<\/p>\n<p>\n<style 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NOW<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fifth-60e65def2443d4fedd70f2f69834ac0f\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fifth-60e65def2443d4fedd70f2f69834ac0f{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-60e65def2443d4fedd70f2f69834ac0f av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-4a1b282d84b6b639ce93bbe9eb71aa5b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-4a1b282d84b6b639ce93bbe9eb71aa5b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-4a1b282d84b6b639ce93bbe9eb71aa5b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container 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av-av_heading-702bc4df9fb726de8e52117e35541564 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock  av-inherit-size'><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_above'><p>Excerpt from<\/p>\n<\/div><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div id=\"book-col-1\">\n<p>Kate Lancaster stood at the very ornate stone font where her two month old god-daughter was being christened, the holy water being poured onto her forehead as the priest intoned a blessing in French. The ceremony was achingly beautiful, in a tiny ancient chapel on the grounds of her best friend\u2019s new home, a stunning chateau just outside Paris. Kate had been at her wedding in this same chapel just nine months previously, as maid of honour.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, this moment in which Kate wanted nothing more than to focus fully on the christening, was being upstaged effortlessly by the tall man who stood to her right. <em>Tiarnan Quinn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d also been at the wedding as best man; he was her best friend Sorcha\u2019s older brother.<\/p>\n<p>Kate tried to stem the pain, hating that it could rise here and taint this beautiful occasion but she couldn\u2019t stop it. He was the man who had crushed her innocent ideals, hopes and dreams. The man who had shown her a moment of explosive sensuality, and in the process ruined her for all other men. And yet she knew she had no-one to blame but herself, if she hadn\u2019t been so determined to \u2013 she ruthlessly crushed that line of thinking. It was so long ago, she couldn\u2019t believe it still affected her. That it still felt so fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her best efforts to block him out, she could feel the heat from his large body envelop her, his scent wind around her, threatening to burst open a veritable Pandora\u2019s Box of memories. The familiar weight of desire she felt whenever she was near him lay heavy within her, a pooling of heat in her belly, between her legs. Usually she was so careful to avoid him, but she couldn\u2019t here, now. Not in this intimate ceremony where they were being joined as god-parents in this ancient ritual.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d survived the wedding, she\u2019d survive this. And then walk away and hope that one day he wouldn\u2019t affect her so much. But how long had she been hoping for that now? A sense of futility washed through her, especially as she recognized that if anything, her awareness of him was growing exponentially stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Her jaw was tight from holding it so rigid, her back as straight as a dancer\u2019s. She tried to focus on Sorcha and Romain. They were oblivious to all except themselves and their baby. Romain took Molly tenderly from the priest, cradling her easily with big hands. He and Sorcha looked at one another then over their daughter\u2019s head and that look nearly undid Kate completely. It was so private; so full of love and hope and earthy sensuality that it felt unbelievably voyeuristic to be witnessing it, and yet Kate couldn\u2019t look away or stop her heart clenching with a bittersweet pain, momentarily and shamingly jealous of what they shared.<\/p>\n<p>This was what Kate wanted. This was all she\u2019d ever wanted. A fulfillment that was so simple, and yet so rare. Tiarnan Quinn shifted beside her, his arm brushing against hers, making her tense even more rigidly and against her will she looked up at him; she couldn\u2019t not. He\u2019d always drawn her eyes to him, like a helpless moth to the certain death of a burning flame.<\/p>\n<p>He was looking down at her and her heart stopped, breath faltered. He frowned slightly, an assessing look in his gaze as he seemed to search deep within her soul for her secrets. He\u2019d looked at her like that at the wedding and it had taken all her strength to appear cool, he was looking at her as if trying to figure something out. Figure <em>her<\/em> out. Kate was so raw in that moment, too raw after witnessing Romain and Sorcha\u2019s sheer happiness and love. It was worse than the wedding, she had no defence here with a tiny baby involved, a tiny baby she\u2019d held in her arms only a few moments ago. Holding that baby had called to the deepest most primitive part of her.<\/p>\n<p>Normally she coped so well, but with Tiarnan looking at her so intently now, her protective wall of icy defence was deserting her spectacularly and leaving in its place nothing but heat. And she couldn\u2019t do anything to stop it. Her eyes dropped betrayingly to his mouth. She quite literally yearned to have him kiss her, hold her. <em>Love her<\/em>. Look at her the way Romain had just looked at Sorcha. She\u2019d never wanted that from any other man, and the realization was stark now, cutting through her.<\/p>\n<p>Against her volition, her eyes rose to meet his again, <em>he was still looking at her<\/em>. Despite everything she knew, the futility of her secret desires; the feelings within her were rising like a tidal wave and she was helpless to disguise them, caught by the look in his eyes. She knew, without being able to stop it, that he was reading every raw naked emotion on her face and in her eyes. And as she watched, his blue eyes darkened to a glittering shade of deep sapphire with something so carnal and hot that she instinctively put out a hand to search for something to cling onto, seriously fearful that her legs wouldn\u2019t support her.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d never looked at her with such explicit intensity\u2026it had to be her imagination. It was all too much and here she was pathetically projecting her own desires onto him\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It was only after a few seconds she realized that Tiarnan had clasped her arm with a big hand, he was holding her upright, supporting her\u2026and right then Kate knew that all of her flimsy attempts to defend herself against him for years were for naught. He\u2019d just seen through it all in an instant. Seen through her. 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