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Both brother and sister looked at her as if questioning her sanity. After all, Greece was not a four-season country.
Ignoring their looks, Mairi took Katya’s packet out of the drawer and handed it to Ioniko. “Please sign the release form, then you can take everything home with you, Mr. Vlahos.”
“Thank you.” Ioniko signed it swiftly, but upon returning the form he suddenly caught hold of her wrist.
Mairi tried to very subtly tug her wrist away, but he was not letting go. A tingling started at the base of her spine, and she turned her head around, heart thumping against her chest.
Her eyes locked with Damen Leventis unerringly, almost as if she instinctively knew where to find him. His gaze was unreadable, his face a mask of indifference.
But for some reason, Mairi was a hundred percent certain her Greek billionaire was anything but indifferent.
Warm fingers squeezed her wrist, and she quickly pulled her gaze away from Damen, gulping when she saw that Ioniko Vlahos was looking at her with a sensual glitter in his eyes. Butterfly wings fluttered faintly in her stomach, but this time Mairi was almost sure it was only because Ioniko was a gorgeous Greek billionaire – the stuff her dreams were made of.
But he was not the one.
This time, Mairi determinedly pulled her hand away, leaving Katya’s brother no choice but to let her go. “They say you speak German?”
It startled her, hearing Ioniko speak the words in the very language he was asking about. She automatically answered in the same language. “Yes.”
Ioniko smiled. “That’s perfect.”
She asked warily, “Perfect?”
His little sister’s teacher was without a doubt one of a kind. She had an innocence to her that almost made him think of her as his little sister. Almost – but not quite. Those magnificent breasts of hers, something which was sadly lacking in virtually every woman in his circle nowadays – they were abundant enough to make a grown man weep, and certainly those breasts made it impossible for Ioniko to think of Ms. Mairi Tanner as anything other than the next woman he wanted to taste.
It was a pity that she was an innocent, but that would not stop him from doing his best to seduce her. He wanted her, plain and simple, and he always got what he wanted.
And so he said frankly, “It’s perfect because this way I will not set tongues wagging when I ask you out.”
Mairi sputtered.
His lips twitched. It was Ioniko’s first time to have a woman speechless in such an unattractive way after being asked out by him. “And so, my darling little Mairi, are you free to join me for dinner tonight?”
She still did not answer.
Ioniko leaned back against his chair. “Please do not pretend to be surprised, Ms. Tanner. You should know with just one look that I found you enthralling from the very start.”
Mairi slowly shook her head, having a hard time understanding that something like this was happening. Oh, no, no, no. She squared her shoulders with a frown. Actually, she was not going to let this happen. In all the bedtime stories her aunts told her, a love triangle always ended up breaking everyone’s hearts and she so did not want that in her own love story.
When Mairi Tanner looked at him, Ioniko was startled to see a fierce look in her lovely eyes. It was almost as if she was preparing herself for a battle, and yet all he had done was ask her out.
And then she spoke in German, her voice earnest.
“Mr. Vlahos, you are a very handsome man.”
Ioniko did his best not to reveal his astonishment. He had expected her to say anything but that.
“But I have to decline because—-” Mairi paused. “I...I...” Velvet would tell her to lie now. Mandy, being practical, would probably tell her the same thing. But...it just wasn’t in her nature to do that.
Ioniko asked sardonically, “Because what, Ms. Tanner?” He refused to acknowledge how crushing his disappointment was, realizing that Mairi Tanner might just be like other women, playing hard to get because they were angling for a better offer.
She smiled and it took Ioniko by surprise, the way the sight of that awkward smile hit him hard, like a fucking arrow aimed straight at his heart.
Mairi mumbled, “Because I think I might have found the man I’m meant to live happily ever after with.”
Chapter 6
To catch a Greek billionaire you must get to know him first.
She said: Find out who he really is – learn who the man is behind the billion-dollar image.
He said: What a beautiful liar you are, matakia mou. You are only ashamed to admit the truth.
She said: I am NOT a liar!
He said: Fine then, my love. You are whitewashing it. You got to know me by using an autograph book.
GODDAMN ASSHOLE WAS stealing his woman right under his nose.
