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He’d smiled, and Xandros had not cared for that s
‘In order to replace hter, Ariadne’
He had s smile
‘I look forward to her arrival’
And that had been all Xandros had got fro, that he had been both outplayed and outmanoeuvred Stavros Coustakis still, it seemed, had a mind to be father-in-law to a Lakaris
Well, he would not succeed! Anger bit into Xandros hard, aggravating his ill humour There was one reason and one reason only why he’d come to London And that was to confront this hitherto totally unheard-of daughter of Stavros Coustakis and disabuse her of any expectations that her father ht have put into her head
Marrying Ariadne, who her unknown English half-sister was an absurdity he wouldn’t even give the ti he wanted was for the wretched girl to turn up in Athens and plague him!
Just reo and fetch his ‘other daughter’ h him But now there was a different cause for it A co himself to credit
His laser gaze rested on the fe frozen in front of him He was still unable to believe she ho she said she was Because it was impossible—just impossible!
Whoever Stavros’s hitherto totally unknown other daughter was, she just could not be the wo here!
However brief the liaison Stavros irl’s mother, his child would have been amply provided for Stavros Coustakis was one of the richest hter would obviously be the London equivalent of Ariadne, living so so wealthy a father! So Hill or Hampstead—
But the contact address that had been supplied to hio had hter be doing in this tatty, rundown part of London? Was she into property redevelop semi-derelict sites and here merely to scope out potential projects?
The actual truth, forcing itself upon hiure in front of him, wasunbelievable
He felt shock resonate through hi in every dire detail of her appearance—the stained tee, the baggy cotton trousers covered in da a floorof disinfectant Her hair was screwed up on top of her head in a kind of topknot from which messy tufts protruded And as for her face—
His expression changed He’d been so negatively irim first iistered But now