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Well, every woht Vicky, as she sat there, staring blankly at her uncle, disbelief taking over completely as he extolled the virtues of a h to be very, very wary of Since the Mozart concert she had seen Theo Theakis only a handful of tiled her out in any particular way Apart froly attractive, and, from the few conversations she’d had with hily and incisively intelligent, he was a co more than an acquaintance of her uncle, and no one she wanted to get any closer to

In fact, he was soly aware of, her preferred option would have been to avoid It would have been much, much safer…

And now, out of nowhere, her uncle was saying he wanted to marry her?

It was unbelievable—quite, quite unbelievable

She wanted to laugh out loud at the absurdity of it, but as she stared at her uncle blindly she started to beco that dismayed her

He was serious—he was really, really serious And more than serious

Vicky’s heart chilled

In her uncle’s face was the same tension she’d seen when she’d arrived in Athens The tension that she’d beenshe’dmore than tension—fear

It was shadowing his eyes, behind the eager s of just why it would be so wonderful for her to be Theo Theakis Behind her uncle’s glowing verbiage of how every wo Theo Theakis as a husband, she could hear a e

A dynasticquite unexceptional in the circles her uncle and aspiring bridegrooe to link tealthy families, two prominent Greek corporations

Oh, Aristides did not say it like that—he used terms like ‘so very suitable’—but Vicky could hear it all the sa of her heart, that she could hear so much more anxious Her uncle didn’t just want her to marry Theo Theakis—he needed her to…

The chill around her heart intensified

She waited, feeling her nerves biting, until he had finally finished his peroration, and was looking at her with an anticipation that was not just hopeful but fearful, too She picked her words with extreme care

‘Uncle, woul

d such a eous to you from a…a business point of view?’