The Reason For His Wife's Return

TARA PAMMI can’t remember a moment when she wasn’t lost in a book—especially a romance, which was much more exciting than a mathematics textbook at school. Years later, Tara’s wild imagination and love for the written word revealed what she really wanted to do. Now she pairs alpha males who think they know everything with strong women who knock that theory and them off their feet! Books by Tara Pammi Returning for His Unknown Son Billion-Dollar Fairy Tales Marriage Bargain with Her Brazilian Boss Born into Bollywood Claiming His Bollywood Cinderella The Surprise Bollywood Baby The Secret She Kept in Bollywood Once Upon a Temptation The Flaw in His Marriage Plan Signed, Sealed...Seduced The Playboy’s “I Do” Deal Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk. The Reason for His Wife’s Return Tara Pammi www.millsandboon.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-008-92887-2 THE REASON FOR HIS WIFE’S RETURN © 2023 by Tara Pammi 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 Enterprises ULC. 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 “I’m pregnant. Do you still want to talk about leaving me a wealthy widow?” Whatever color had been remaining in his face fled. “You’re pregnant,” he repeated, his gaze going to her belly and then combing back up to collide with her eyes. Mira nodded. “Not just...” She licked her lips, the intensity of his scrutiny making the words harder to come. “It’s twins. We’re having twins.” His features were frozen into a mask, and tension thrummed through him. “Two babies?” She smiled then, and the joy of sharing her news washed away everything else. “Yes, twins means two babies.” “And everything is okay with you? With...them?” he asked, waving a hand around her midsection. “Yes. Everything’s fine and as it should be.” His throat moved on a hard swallow and a part of her wanted to wrap herself up in his arms. She wanted to burrow into him until she didn’t have to be strong. Billion-Dollar Fairy Tales Once upon a temptation... Meet the Reddy sisters—Nush, Mira and Yana. As the granddaughters of tech tycoon Rao Reddy, their lives have been full of glitz and glamour. Until tragedy strikes and their beloved grandfather passes away. Amid their devastation, each girl finds a note, Rao’s last gift for them to help them live out their dreams. But chasing their happiness won’t be a smooth ride! Nush has been in love with her longtime family friend and billionaire boss, Caio, for longer than she can remember. She’s ready to move on...but then he proposes they have a convenient marriage! Read Nush and Caio’s story inMarriage Bargain with Her Brazilian Boss Mira and Aristos’s marriage was purely for convenience, but Mira fled their powerfully real connection. Now...she’s back with not one but two surprises! Read Mira and Aristos’s story inThe Reason for His Wife’s Return Both available now! Look out for the final installment, Yana’s story, coming soon! Contents Cover About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Note to Readers Introduction Billion-Dollar Fairy Tales PROLOGUE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN Extract About the Publisher PROLOGUE Eleven months ago Greek Billionaire Breaks Hearts by Marrying a Nobody American! Brilliant international corporate lawyer and daredevil playboy Aristos Carides, thirty-three, broke fans’ hearts all over the world by marrying a nobody American, Mira Reddy, also thirty-three, over the weekend in party city Las Vegas. While the playboy’s numerous fans have taken to posting their disappointment all over the internet, Carides’s new bride is conspicuously absent from social media. However, one of our reporters has unearthed a picture of the plump, plain Mrs. Carides, which clearly boggles our minds as to how she landed the favorite bachelor on the planet. Sources close to Mr. Carides have leaked that Mrs. Carides has tied up the playboy in a watertight contract marriage of five years through nefarious means known only to the couple. We’re trying to learn more. Here’s a montage of the clips posted by adoring fans of Mr. Carides... AristosLover23: OMG howz the world fair? Why did Aristos marry such a boring old woman? Carides’sFavCoochie: Wonder what she did to land him... ArisBootyCall: