Virgin's Night With The Greek

LUCY KING spent her adolescence lost in the glamorous and exciting world of Harlequin when she really ought to have been paying attention to her teachers. But as she couldn’t live in a dreamworld forever, she eventually acquired a degree in languages and an eclectic collection of jobs. After a decade in southwest Spain, Lucy now lives with her young family in Wiltshire, England. When not writing or trying to think up new and innovative things to do with mince, she spends her time reading, failing to finish cryptic crosswords and dreaming of the golden beaches of Andalucia. Books by Lucy King Stranded with My Forbidden Billionaire Passionately Ever After... Undone by Her Ultra-Rich Boss Passion in Paradise A Scandal Made in London Lost Sons of Argentina The Secrets She Must Tell Invitation from the Venetian Billionaire The Billionaire without Rules Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk. Virgin’s Night with the Greek Lucy King www.millsandboon.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-008-92871-1 VIRGIN’S NIGHT WITH THE GREEK © 2023 by Lucy King 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. 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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 With every purposeful step away from her Leo took, the hope and excitement whipping through her system withered that little bit more, deflating her by the second. Would Willow meet someone like him ever again? Someone who had such an extraordinarily intense effect on her? It didn’t seem likely. Men like him didn’t grow on trees. So why was she standing here like a lemon? Why wasn’t she going after him and telling him she wanted more? What was she doing? She had nothing to lose and everything to gain from pursuing the passion she’d just experienced. Who cared if they were as different as two people could be? She wasn’t after a happy-ever-after with him. She wasn’t after that with anyone. She just wanted one night. Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Introduction PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN EPILOGUE Extract About the Publisher PROLOGUE ‘SHE’S DOING WHAT?’ In response to the bombshell his younger sister had just dropped, Leonidas Stanhope sank into the chair behind his vast glass desk, his stomach tightening and his head already beginning to throb in a horribly familiar way. ‘She’s having herself painted,’ Daphne repeated dully in Greek as she stared out of the window at the view of London that stretched out far below in the late May sunshine. ‘In the nude. For Lazlo. As a birthday present, she said. He’s turning seventy next week.’ ‘Seventy?’ ‘I know,’ said Daphne. ‘I can only assume he’s a fan of Botox. I don’t know why she couldn’t simply have gift-wrapped a voucher for some more of that.’ ‘That would have been far too subtle.’ As his sister muttered her agreement, Leo closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose even though he knew perfectly well it would alleviate precisely nothing. He’d been firefighting his mother’s scandals for years, ever since he’d become the head of the family following his father’s sudden death twelve years ago, when he was nineteen. Some were huge, some were minor, all were exhausting. Was there to be no end to the drama the woman caused? She was approaching sixty. At what age would dignity kick in and give him a break? No time soon, by the sound of things. With a sigh, he fought the urge to grind his teeth, pulled himself together and redirected his attention to this latest incident. ‘I thought she and Lazlo had parted ways.’ Daphne turned from the window to take a seat on the other side of the desk. ‘That was two months ago,’ she said despondently, flopping back against the leather the colour of whisky. ‘They’ve since reconciled. She told me she was missing the sex.’ Leo winced. ‘The portrait’s to be part of an exhibition by up-and-coming young British artists at the Tate Modern. In a fortnight. Three days before my wedding. Can you believe it?’ ‘Unfortunately, I can,’ he said, stifling a sigh of exasperation. ‘All too easily. She’s so self-absorbed, I