Never Gamble with a Caffarelli. Melanie Milburne

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       ‘I don’t desire you. I’ve never desired you.’ Angelique’s eyes flashed pure venom at him. ‘I detest you.’

      Remy caught a coil of her hair and tethered her to him. He watched as her grey-blue eyes flared and her tongue swept over her lips again. There was something incredibly arousing about her defiant stance. She pulled against his push. She had always stood up to him. Challenged him. Annoyed him. Goaded him.

      ‘I’ll have you eating out of my hand soon enough.’ He gave her a confident smile. ‘You won’t be able to resist.’

      She grabbed her hair and tugged it out of his hold. ‘I can’t believe you’re being so ruthless about this.’ She continued to glare at him. ‘You don’t want me at all. You just want to win the upper hand.

      ‘Oh, I want you, all right, princess,’ he drawled. ‘Make no mistake about that. And what I want I get. Every. Single. Time.’

      ‘Then you’ve met your match, Remy Caffarelli, because I bend my will to no man. If you want to sleep with me then you’ll have to tie me to the bed first.’

      Remy smiled a sinful smile. ‘I can hardly wait.’

       THOSE SCANDALOUS CAFFARELLIS

       Rich. Ruthless. Irresistible.

      Brothers Rafe, Raoul and Remy are better known as the Three Rs:

      1. Rich—

      Italy’s most brilliant billionaires.

      2. Ruthless—

      they’ll do anything to protect their place at the top.

      3. Irresistible—

      their business prowess is rivalled only by

       their reputation in the bedroom.

      (Just ask any glittering socialite they’ve ever met!)

      You read Rafe’s story in: NEVER SAY NO TO A CAFFARELLI September 2013

      Last month you read Raoul’s story in: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CAFFARELLI October 2013

      This month read Remy’s story in: NEVER GAMBLE WITH A CAFFARELLI November 2013

      Never Gamble with a Caffarelli

      Melanie Milburne

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      From as soon as MELANIE MILBURNE could pick up a pen she knew she wanted to write. It was when she picked up her first Mills and Boon^® at seventeen that she realised she wanted to write romance. After being distracted for a few years by meeting and marrying her own handsome hero, surgeon husband Steve, and having two boys, plus completing a Masters of Education and becoming a nationally ranked athlete (masters swimming), she decided to write. Five submissions later she sold her first book and is now a multi-published, award-winning USA TODAY bestselling author. In 2008 she won the Australian Romance Readers’ Association most popular category/series romance, and in 2011 she won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia R*BY award.

      Melanie loves to hear from her readers via her website,

       www.melaniemilburne.com.au or on Facebook:

       www.facebook.com/pages/Melanie-Milburne/351594482609.

       Recent titles by the same author:

      NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A CAFFARELLI

       (Those Scandalous Caffarellis) NEVER SAY NO TO A CAFFARELLI (Those Scandalous Caffarellis) HIS FINAL BARGAIN UNCOVERING THE SILVERI SECRET

       Did you know these are also available as eBooks? Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

      To my dear friend Heather Last, whom I met on the first day of kindergarten a very long time ago!

      Thank you for always being my friend and for being one of the first people to say:

      ‘You should write!’

      Much love. xx

      Contents

       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

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       EPILOGUE

      CHAPTER ONE

      ‘WHAT DO YOU mean you lost it?’ Angelique stared at her father in abject horror.

      Henri Marchand gave a negligent shrug but she could see his Adam’s apple moving up and down as if he’d just had to swallow something unpleasant. But then, losing her late mother’s ancestral home in the highlands of Scotland in a poker game in Las Vegas was about as bitter a flavour as you could taste, Angelique supposed.

      ‘I was doing all right until Remy Caffarelli tricked me into thinking he was on a losing streak,’ he said. ‘We played for hours with him losing just about every hand. I thought I’d clean him up once and for all. I put down my best hand in a winner-takes-all deal but then he went and trumped it.’

      Angelique felt her spine turn to ice and her blood heat to boiling. ‘Tell me you did not lose Tarrantloch to Remy Caffarelli.’ He was her worst enemy. The one man she would do anything to avoid—to avoid even thinking about!

      ‘I’ll win it back.’ Her father spouted the problem gambler’s credo with arrogant confidence. ‘I’ll challenge him to another game. I’ll up the stakes. He won’t be able to resist another—’

      ‘And lose even more?’ She threw him an exasperated look. ‘He set you up. Can’t you see that? He’s always had you in his sights but you made it a hundred times worse, sabotaging his hotel development in Spain. How could you have fallen for such a trick?’

      ‘I’ll outsmart him this time. You’ll see. He thinks he’s so clever but I’ll get him back where it really hurts.’

      Angelique rolled her eyes and turned away. Her stomach felt as if it had been scraped out with a rusty spoon. How could her father have lost her beloved mother’s ancestral