Luis Osorio wants two things:
Cristina’s truth—and her body!
Life has taught billionaire Luis that everyone has an ulterior motive. When the beautiful stranger he spent one scorching night with reveals herself as his famous family’s new photographer, alarm bells start ringing! He whisks Cristina away to his island fortress, determined to isolate her and uncover the truth—only to realize he’s rekindled a desire from which there is no escape!
LOUISE FULLER was a tomboy who hated pink and always wanted to be the Prince—not the Princess! Now she enjoys creating heroines who aren’t pretty pushovers but are strong, believable women. Before writing for Mills & Boon she studied literature and philosophy at university, and then worked as a reporter on her local newspaper. She lives in Tunbridge Wells with her impossibly handsome husband, Patrick, and their six children.
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Surrender to the Ruthless Billionaire
Louise Fuller
ISBN: 978-1-474-07208-3
SURRENDER TO THE RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE
© 2018 Louise Fuller
Published in Great Britain 2018
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To Millie. For always smiling. Even when I’m really annoying. And for making me laugh. Love you lots.
And to Nic. For reading, rereading, reassuring me and generally being the best editor. Thank you.
Contents
DOWNSHIFTING THROUGH THE GEARS, Luis Osorio slowed his vintage Ducati motorbike to a standstill and let the engine idle in neutral. As he gazed down the hill at the city illuminated in the late afternoon sunlight his heart did a paso doble inside his chest.
Segovia. Finally he was home.
He had deliberately left the motorway some twenty minutes earlier in order to enjoy this moment—a moment of private communion with the city of his childhood.
A city he loved.
A city he’d shunned for five years.
Five years that had felt like a life sentence.
Although really he’d got off lightly...
His breath caught in his chest and he felt a twisting rush of guilt that made his hands tighten painfully around the handlebar grips.
It was the same guilt that had almost stopped him from coming home. But this time he’d had no choice. His mother’s sixtieth birthday was a celebration he couldn’t miss, whatever the consequences