He had never seen Acheron Dimitrakos betray anger before or, indeed, any kind of emotion. Stevos Vannou cleared his throat and treated his employer to a troubled appraisal.

I don’t want any of that messing up my life!’ That is exactly why he did this to me,’ Ash ground out between clenched teeth, his temper momentarily escaping its leash as he thought of the utterly unhinged woman his misguided father had expected him to put in the role. ‘My father knew I had no intention of ever marrying. ‘That’s all you have to do to put everything back to normal.’ ‘Picking a wife would definitely be the lesser evil,’ the lawyer suggested with a cynical chuckle. ‘A long court case disputing the will would seriously undermine the company’s ability to trade,’ he said eventually. Cold dark eyes fringed with ridiculously long black lashes locked on the sweeping view of the City of London skyline that his penthouse office enjoyed, his lean, darkly handsome features set in hard, forbidding lines of restraint. Even though it is indisputably the company that you built.’ ‘On paper you never had your father transfer his interest to you.

‘But regretfully not on paper,’ Stevos countered gravely. ‘DT is my company,’ Ash asserted between compressed lips. It just went to show-as if Ash had ever had any doubt-you couldn’t trust anybody, and your nearest and dearest were the most likely to plunge a knife into your back when you were least expecting it. It was unthinkable it was a brutally unfair demand, which ran contrary to every honourable scruple and the high standards that Ash had once believed the older man held dear to his heart. If Ash didn’t marry within the year, he would lose half of the company to his stepmother and her children, who were already most amply provided for by the terms of his father’s will. He had trusted his father, Angelos, as far as he trusted anyone, which was to say not very much, but it had never once crossed his mind that the older man would even consider threatening the company that Ash had single-handedly built with the bombshell that his last will and testament had become. ‘BEARING IN MIND the history of the company’s expansion and success, it is a most unjust will,’ Stevos Vannou, Ash’s lawyer, declared heavily in the simmering silence, a wary eye locked to the very tall, dark and powerfully built male across the office.Īcheron Dimitrakos, known as Ash to his inner circle, and Greek billionaire founder of the global giant DT Industries, said nothing.

Bond of hatred by lynne graham