I was still emotional when our breaths cooled. When he pulled me close and whispered in my ear.

‘Our adventure is only just beginning, eros mou. And I couldn’t have wished for a better partner at my side to experience it all but you, Calypso Xenakis.’

‘Nor I, you, my love,’ I returned, with every ounce of the love I held in my heart.

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Bride Behind the Billion-Dollar Veil

by Clare Connelly

PROLOGUE

Twelve years ago

‘LISTEN TO ME.’

Thanos looked up at his brother, barely able to see him through the fog of rage and disbelief that shrouded his every thought and feeling.

‘We will get it back.’

Thanos gripped the pen in his hand, returning his attention to the imperious black line at the bottom of the contract. A contract for the sale of Petó, the company their grandfather, Nicholas Stathakis, had built from the ground up. The company Thanos had learned to operate at his grandfather’s knee. The company that meant everything to him.

‘No.’ He dropped the pen to the boardroom table, extending to his full six and a half feet, striding across the room with a ramrod-straight back.

He knew his half-brother was watching him, and he knew Leonidas was feeling the same sense of outrage and disbelief. Only Leonidas was somehow better at processing this. He was calm, outwardly, even as their world crumbled around them, whereas Thanos wanted to torch the building on his way out.

He braced his palms on the floor-to-ceiling glass, looking out on downtown Athens. All of this they had once commanded.

All of this, their father had destroyed.

‘We will get it back, Thanos,’ Leo repeated, with urgency. ‘But we must sell it for now.’

Nausea split Thanos’s side. Sell it? Sell the jewel in their grandfather’s business empire? Because their father had tied the company to the mafia?

Thanos ground his teeth together, locking his jaw intently. He wanted to say there was another way. He wanted to fix this. To make it better. And suddenly he was eight years old again, watching his mother walk away. He was eight years old and knowing himself to be the instrument of a family’s breakdown. He was eight years old and everything in this world was his fault. But this was so much worse.