The Nights She Spent With The CEO

JOSS WOOD loves books and traveling—especially to the wild places of southern Africa and, well, anywhere. She’s a wife, a mom to two teenagers and a slave to two cats. After a career in local economic development, she now writes full-time. Joss is a member of Romance Writers of America and Romance Writers of South Africa. Books by Joss Wood The Rules of Their Red-Hot Reunion Scandals of the Le Roux Wedding The Billionaire’s One-Night Baby The Powerful Boss She Craves The Twin Secret She Must Reveal South Africa’s Scandalous Billionaires How to Undo the Proud Billionaire How to Win the Wild Billionaire How to Tempt the Off-Limits Billionaire Wrong Brother, Right Kiss Lost and Found Heir The Secret Heir Returns Crossing Two Little Lines Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk. The Nights She Spent with the CEO Joss Wood www.millsandboon.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-008-92860-5 THE NIGHTS SHE SPENT WITH THE CEO © 2023 by Joss Wood Published in Great Britain 2023by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental. By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a “Licensed Device”) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher. ® and ™ are trademarks owned and used by the trademark owner and/or its licensee. Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries. www.millsandboon.co.uk Note to Readers This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech “You should move back,” he told her, his voice rough sounding. “I should,” she agreed, sounding bemused and dazed. “I want to, I know I must, but I can’t.” He released a groan and inhaled a solid hit of her scent. Instead of pulling away, his thumb slid over her knuckles. Passion flared in her eyes, her breath hitched and she tipped her head back, lifting her mouth. What else could he do but lower his mouth to hers? He was an inch from her mouth, and anticipation hummed through his veins when she slapped her hand on her chest and pulled back. “We shouldn’t. I work for you,” Lex told him, the expression on her face yearning. She wanted his mouth on hers as much as he wanted his there. “Tell me not to kiss you, Cole,” Lex begged. “I can’t,” he whispered, bending his knees a little to meet her mouth. He was about to make contact when voices coming from the passage pulled him back to the present. Cole stepped away from Lex and a cold dose of reality slapped him in the face. Cape Town Tycoons How do you resist an irresistible billionaire? Lex and Addi Satchell had only ever had each other to rely on...until their absentee mother dropped two young sisters they never knew about on their doorstep. Now, everything Lex and Addi do is for them. They don’t have time for love or passion—or to think about either! Then Cole Thorpe and Jude Fisher come into their lives... The two tycoons are devastatingly handsome and infuriatingly tempting. So much so that working with them forces Lex and Addi to realize they aren’t impervious to the attraction that Cole and Jude make them feel! Read Cole and Lex’s story inThe Nights She Spent with the CEO And discover Jude and Addi’s story,The Baby Behind Their Marriage Merger Coming soon! Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Introduction Cape Town Tycoons CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE Extract About the Publisher CHAPTER ONE LEX STOOD IN the arrivals hall at Cape Town International airport, an iced coffee in one hand and a battered Thorpe Industries sign in the other. She kept meaning to make another one but, between her part-time jobs, ferrying her sisters to their after-school activities, supervising homework, making dinner and studying towards her degree, time was short. The little things tended to fall between the cracks—such as signs. Lex blew a copper curl out of her eyes and, when it refused to budge, she used her baby finger to pull it back and tuck it behind her ear. She’d pulled her too-long hair into a loose braid but it was already falling apart. She needed a hair cut, a facial, a massage, two million dollars... Lex looked at the electronic board and then at her phone, checking the time. The incoming flight from London had landed fifteen minutes ago, so she could expect the passengers to start walking through any moment now. She’d picked up many Thorpe Industries