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She pushed the thought away, troubled by how much it bothered her Because it shouldn’t bother her Xenon could sleep ho he liked They were separated They were getting a divorce

She spent the journey watching as countryside morphed into city and her stomach contracted with apprehension as the car drew up outside the glea monolithic tower of the Kanellis headquarters

She gazed up at the plate-glass-and-steel building, reluctantly re the last time she had been here It had been at so to appear in their e

Xenon had been tired and fractious He’d been working away—again—and had coht fro cocktail dress she’d been wearing with the expression of a hungry lion being offered a piece of rawwith another et that no other ry in the car afterwards and then she’d been angry right back, co that he always made her feel like so silence in which they’d sat had grown ever-more resentful, but that hadn’t stopped hi off her dress thethe same with his trousers

Her breath already dry in her throat, Lexi reached down for her suitcase, but Charlottefrom the driver’s mirror

‘Don’t worry about that, Mrs Kanellis I’ll take care of your case,’ she said

Lexi wondered if it orth going to the trouble of explaining that she no longer used her married naave the young woreat driver’

But her nerves returned when she went into the building, her footsteps clicking as she made her way across theher clammy palms down over her dress, she tried not to feel claustrophobic as she rode up towards Xenon’s penthouse office The ses of her face and the dress she wore seemed to have leeched all the colour from her skin and she suddenly felt terribly provincial It was a long time since she had been somewhere like this, somewhere where you could almost smell the scent of money

Xenon’s was a success story which business schools used as a teh Born into a wealthy Greek family, he had assumed control of the Kanellis empire after the sudden death of his father—only to discover that the fa

Although prodigiously young, Xenon had been undaunted by the task which lay ahead of him, and the fact that the markets had crashed soon afterwards He had quickly discovered that he possessed the gifts of financial foresight coupled with nerves of steel He had seen the need to diversify in order to cope with the changeable econo the role as head of his extended Greek family, with all the responsibilities that involved

Through sheer hard graft and dedication, he had revitalised the fa line and then added a chain of luxury shops A newspaper and publishing house had increased the growing value of his portfolio, and during one econohts of a screenplay written by an unknown student It had captured the Zeitgeist of the tilobal smash-hit of the year

But the fil much deeper into the national psyche of Greece than the usual stereotypical jokes about sex before e and the benefits of moussaka It had charted the rich and complex history of a beautiful and often misunderstood country It had detailed wars and defeat It had chronicled heartbreak and triumph—and had won a plethora of awards for it, included a much-coveted Oscar The stardust of Hollywood had still been clinging to Xenon’s skin when Lexi had met hied solo career

She knew that Xenon deserved his success She knew he had worked hard for it and that he still did But hadn’t his insatiable appetite for even e between the that it had do pushed out and resentful?

She had been unable to be the wife he needed, or provide the heir which his fierce Greek pride had de way from perfection

The lift pinged to a halt and she walked into the outer office to find a blonde—another blonde!—she didn’t recognise seated behind the large desk Her predecessor had been there for years and Lexi had liked the atekeeper to the Greek billionaire It was a little disconcerting to see this new and rather glah a pile of papers with her shiny pink nails