“Yes. And she’s very nice.” Mikey shrugged. “But we don’t like to put her out.”
The ‘we’ bothered him. It was another sign of familiarity. She had unconsciously coupled herself to Bobby. He didn’t like it. “Oh?”
Bobby’s smile was broad. “Natalia prepares meals for Andrew, Nanny Paxton and the physiotherapist, Mandy. Have you met her?” No answer. He sped on, chatting amiably. “They like to eat with him. Mandy, watches how he uses the utensils, because it’s a good way to be sure his arm is fully healed from its break. And Nanny Paxton likes to keep him company whenever she can.”
“Whereas you and Miss Jones prefer to eat separately,” Loucas observed slowly.
Mikey’s eyes were sparking with the fury that was now familiar to him. “What’s wrong with that?”
“You’re the one who puts such an emphasis on Andrew. I would have thought you’d have wanted to dine with him,” Loucas pointed out logically.
“Too many people make him nervous,” Mikey said quietly. There was a warning in her voice. Questioning her devotion to Andrew was a sure-fire way to get on Mikey’s bad-side.
“I see. And you cook every night?”
Bobby reached over for more cheese. This time, Mikey didn’t bat him away. “I like to cook.”
He looked at the bench top for the first time. A mound of dough sat, half covered with a linen cloth. Various vegetables were chopped and resting in little dishes. “You’re making pizza.”
“No. I’m making roast lamb,” she snapped sarcastically.
He ignored her barb. “Good. I love pizza.”
“You’re…staying for dinner?” Mikey grabbed the rolling pin and began to flatten a circle of dough, simply to disguise the way her hands were shaking.
Loucas’s lazy gaze took in the handsome American man, and the blonde woman who had become a strange thorn in his side. His next statement surprised him as much as it did Mikey. He told himself it was the only choice he had. After all, didn’t he have a duty to do what was best for his nephew?
“I’m staying indefinitely, Arnaki. And from now on, I will also be joining you for dinner.”
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Books By Clare Connelly
HARLEQUIN TITLES
Bought for the Billionaire’s Revenge
Innocent in the Billionaire’s Bed
Off Limits
Her Wedding Night Surrender
Burn Me Once
Bound by the Billionaire’s Vows
The Season to Sin
His Innocent Seduction
Bound by their Christmas Baby
Her Guilty Secret
Shock Heir for the King
The Greek’s Billion-Dollar Baby
Spaniard’s Baby of Revenge
SINGLE TITLES
Her Guardian’s Christmas Seduction
Stolen by the Desert King
In the Hands of the Sheikh
His Nine Month Seduction
The Sheikh’s Contract Bride
Seduced by the Vengeful Tycoon
The Sheikh’s Stolen Bride
The Sheikh’s Secret Baby
The Sheikh’s Million Dollar Bride
The Tycoon’s Virgin Mistress
The Sheikh’s Virgin Hostage
Bartered to the Sheikh
The Sheikh’s Arranged Marriage
Marrying for his Royal Heir
The Greek’s Marriage Revenge
The Velasco Love Child
The Sultan’s Virgin Bride
Bound to the Sheikh
The Medici Mistress
His Loving Deception
The Sheikh’s Convenient Mistress
The Princess’s Forbidden Lover
Marrying her Enemy
Rakanti’s Indecent Proposition
Seducing the Spaniard
The Italian’s Innocent Bride
The Greek Tycoon’s Forbidden Affair
The Terms of their Affair
A Second Chance at Love
The Sheikh’s Christmas Mistress
At the Sheikh’s Command
The Billionaire’s Christmas Revenge
Seduced by the Italian Tycoon
Raising the Soldier’s Son
Warming the Sheikh’s Bed
The Tycoon’s Christmas Captive
The Brazilian’s Forgotten Lover
Betrayed by the CEO
The Billionaire’s Ruthless Revenge
The Italian Billionaire’s Betrayal
The Sultan’s Reluctant Princess
Love in the Fast Lane
Bought by the Sheikh
The Tycoon’s Summer Seduction
All She Wants for Christmas
One Night with the Sheikh
A Bed of Broken Promises
Tempted by the Billionaire
The Sheikh’s Christmas Wish
To the Highest Bidder
The Tycoon’s Secret Baby
Bedding His Innocent Mistress
The Sheikh’s Baby Bargain
The Greek’s Virgin Captive
The Sheikh’s Inherited Bride
Claiming His Secret Baby
Blackmailed by the Spaniard
Her Surprise Baby Christmas
COMPENDIUMS
Casacelli Brides
Mediterranean Tycoons
Desert Rulers
Billionaire Bad Boys
Too Hot to Handle
Desert Kings
Happily Ever After
The Darling Buds of May Café
Royal Weddings
The Evermore Series
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