{"id":1918,"date":"2015-08-02T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/abbey\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=38"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:52:34","slug":"the-bride-fonseca-needs","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/the-bride-fonseca-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bride Fonseca Needs"},"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-1918'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-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_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  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='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>\u201cEveryone has a price\u2026I\u2019ve just told you mine. Name yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary Darcy Lennox knows how demanding her billionaire boss, Maximiliano Fonseca Roselli, can be. His fierce ambition is legendary. But marrying him to secure the deal of the century is beyond the call of duty!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Except Max is not a man to say no to. He\u2019s undaunted by Darcy\u2019s reluctance to enter a fake marriage. In his world, everyone has a price, and he will entice Darcy to reveal hers. 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itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Bride Fonseca Needs<\/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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Well, well, well. This is interesting. Little Darcy Lennox, in my office, looking for work.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy curbed the flash of irritation at the not entirely inaccurate reference to her being little and fought against the onslaught on her senses from being mere feet away from Maximiliano Fonseca Roselli, separated from him only by an impressive desk. But it was hard. Because he was quite simply as devastatingly gorgeous as he\u2019d always been. More so now, because he was a man. Not the seventeen-year-old boy she remembered. Sex appeal flowed from him like an invisible but heady scent. It made Darcy absurdly aware that underneath all the layers of civility they were just animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was half-Brazilian, half-Italian. Dark blond hair was still unruly and messy\u2014long enough to proclaim that he didn\u2019t really give a damn about anything, much less conforming. Although clearly along the way he\u2019d given enough of a damn to become one of Europe\u2019s youngest \u2018billionaire entrepreneurs to watch\u2019, according to a leading financial magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy could imagine how any number of women would be only too happy to watch his every sexy move. She did notice one new addition to his almost perfect features, though, and blurted out before she could stop herself, \u2018You have a scar.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It snaked from his left temple to his jaw in a jagged line and had the effect of making him even more mysterious and brooding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man under her close scrutiny arched one dark blond brow and drawled, \u2018Your powers of observation are clearly in working order.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy flushed at being so caught out. Since when had she been she gauche enough to refer to someone\u2019s physical appearance? He had stood to greet her when she\u2019d walked into his palatial office, situated in the centre of Rome, and she was still standing too, beginning to feel hot in her trouser suit, hot under the tawny green gaze that had captivated her the first time she\u2019d ever seen him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He folded his arms across his chest and her eye was drawn helplessly to where impressive muscles bunched against the fine material of his open-necked white shirt, sleeves rolled up. And even though he wore smart dark trousers he looked anything but civilised. That gaze was too knowing, too cynical, for politesse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018So, what\u2019s a fellow alumna from Boissy le Ch\u00e2teau doing looking for work as a PA?\u2019 Before she could answer he was adding, with the faintest of sneers to his tone, \u2018I would have thought you\u2019d be married into European aristocracy by now, and producing a gaggle of heirs like every other girl in that anachronistic medieval institution.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pinned under that golden gaze, she regretted the moment she\u2019d ever thought it might be a good idea to apply for the job advertised on a very select applications board. And she hated to think that a part of her had been curious to see Max Fonseca Roselli Fonseca again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She replied, \u2018I was only at Boissy for another year after you left\u2026\u2019 She faltered then, thinking of a lurid memory of Max beating another boy outside in the snow, and the bright stain of blood against the pristine white. She pushed it down. \u2018My father was badly affected by the recession so I went back to England to finish my schooling.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She didn\u2019t think it worth mentioning that that schooling had taken place in a comprehensive school, which she would have chosen any day over the oppressive atmosphere of Boissy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max made a sound of faux commiseration. \u2018So Darcy didn\u2019t get to be the belle of the ball in Paris with all the other debutantes?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She gritted her jaw at his reference to the exclusive annual Bal des D\u00e9butantes; she was no belle of any ball. She knew Max hadn\u2019t had a good time at Boissy, but she hadn\u2019t been one of his antagonists. Anything but. She cringed inwardly now when she recalled another vivid memory, from not long after he\u2019d first arrived. Darcy had come upon two guys holding Max back, with another about to punch him in the belly. Without even thinking, she\u2019d rushed into the fray, screaming, \u2018Stop!\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heat climbed inside her at the thought that he might remember that too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018No,\u2019 she responded tightly. \u2018I didn\u2019t go to the ball in Paris. I sat my A levels and then got a degree in languages and business from London University, as you\u2019ll see from my CV.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which was laid out on his desk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This had been a huge mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Look, I saw your name come up on the applications board\u2014that you\u2019re looking for a PA. I probably shouldn\u2019t have come.\u2019 Darcy reached down to where she\u2019d put her briefcase by her feet and picked it up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max was frowning at her. \u2018Do you want a job or not?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy felt tetchy with herself for having been so impetuous, and irritated with Max for being so bloody gorgeous and distracting. Still. So she said, more snippily than she\u2019d intended, \u2018Of course I want a job. I need a job.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max\u2019s frown deepened. \u2018Did your parents lose everything?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She bristled at the implication that she was looking for work because her family wasn\u2019t funding her any more. \u2018No, thankfully my father was able to recover.\u2019 And then she said tartly, \u2018Believe it or not, I like to make my own living.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max made some kind of a dismissive sound, as if he didn\u2019t quite believe her, and Darcy bit her lip in order to stay quiet. She couldn\u2019t exactly blame him for his assumption, but unlike the other alumnae of their school she didn\u2019t expect everything in life to be handed to her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those mesmerising eyes were looking at her far too closely now and Darcy became excruciatingly conscious of her dark hair, pulled back into a ponytail, her diminutive stature and the unfashionably full figure she\u2019d long ago given up any hope of minimising, choosing instead to work with what she had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max rapped out in Italian, \u2018You\u2019re fluent in Italian?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy blinked, but quickly replied in the same language. \u2018Yes. My mother is from just outside Rome. I\u2019ve been bilingual since I learnt how to talk and I\u2019m also fluent in Spanish, German and French. And I have passable Chinese.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He flicked a look at her CV and then looked back, switching to English again. \u2018It says here that you\u2019ve been in Brussels for the past five years\u2014is that where you\u2019re based?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy\u2019s insides tightened at his direct question, as if warding off a blow. The truth was that she hadn\u2019t really had a base since her parents had split up when she was eight and they\u2019d sold off the family home. They\u2019d shuttled her between schools and wherever they\u2019d been living which had changed constantly, due to her father\u2019s work and her mother\u2019s subsequent relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She\u2019d learned that the only constant she could depend on was herself and her ability to forge a successful career, cocooning her from the pillar-to-post feeling she hated so much and the vagaries of volatile relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She answered Max. \u2018I don\u2019t have a base at the moment, so I\u2019m free to go where the work is.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once again that incisive gaze was on her. Darcy hated the insecurity that crept up on her at the thought that he might be assessing how she\u2019d turned out, judging her against the svelte supermodel types he was always photographed with. Beside them, at five foot two, Darcy would look like a baby elephant! In weak moments over the years she\u2019d seen Max on the covers of gossip magazines and had picked them up to read the salacious content. And it had always been salacious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When she\u2019d read about his three-in-a-bed romp with two Russian models she\u2019d flung the magazine into a trash can, disgusted with herself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suddenly stuck out his hand. \u2018I\u2019ll give you a two-week trial, starting tomorrow. Do you have accommodation sorted?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy blanched. He was offering her the job? Her head was still filled with lurid images of pouting blonde glamazons, crawling all over Max\u2019s louche form. Reacting reflexively, she put out her hand to meet his and suddenly was engulfed in heat as his long fingers curled around hers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He took his hand away abruptly and glanced at a fearsome-looking watch, then back to her, a little impatiently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy woke up. \u2018Um\u2026yes, I have somewhere to stay for a few days.\u2019 She repressed a small grimace when she thought of the very basic hostel in one of Rome\u2019s busier tourist districts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max nodded. \u2018Good. If I keep you on then we\u2019ll get you something more permanent.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They looked at each other as Darcy\u2019s mind boggled at the thought of working with him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then he said pointedly, \u2018I have a meeting now, I\u2019ll see you tomorrow at nine a.m. We\u2019ll go through everything then.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darcy quickly picked up her briefcase and backed away. \u2018Okay, then, tomorrow.\u2019 She walked to the door and then turned around again. \u2018You\u2019re not just doing this because we know each other\u2026?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max had his hands on his hips. He was beginning to look slightly impatient. \u2018No, Darcy. That\u2019s coincidental. 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