Di Sione's Innocent Conquest (The Billionaire's Legacy 1)

‘But we want them to think...’

‘Oh, they’ll be thinking,’ he said.

The car pulled up at her hotel and Abby wondered if he’d suggest dinner and she wondered if she might accept.

But Matteo, being Matteo, skipped entrée, main and dessert and, after such a lovely day, for him the ending was inevitable.

‘We could,’ Matteo said, ‘always go to mine.’

That delicious mouth moved in for the kill and what startled Abby the most was that she wanted to accept, to just close her eyes and give in to the bliss he offered, except she jerked her head back.

‘I’m assuming we’re not talking about the restaurant at your hotel?’

‘We’re not.’

For Matteo sex was as straightforward and as simple as that.

‘What happened to keeping it strictly business?’ Abby asked.

‘I can juggle both.’

He looked into green eyes that had been relaxed and smiling all day but now had turned to sleet.

‘I’ll see you on race day.’ Abby’s voice was tart—he could feel her anger and indignatio

n emanating—and Matteo, who only ever played with the willing, leant back. ‘If you’re still interested, that is.’ She didn’t wait for the driver to open the door for her; instead she got out and slammed the door shut.

You’re not here to seduce, Matteo reminded himself as the driver took his rarely rejected passenger back to his hotel.

Matteo never misread signs.

Today the two of them had blasted a heat to rival a Dubai sun.

It was better this way, he conceded as he climbed out of the car and headed to his luxury suite.

If ever he’d been glad that he hadn’t told Abby about the origins of them, then it was now, because he was seriously interested in the Boucher team.

And, far more worryingly for Matteo, he was also seriously interested in Abby herself.

Which was, for a die-hard bachelor, very troubling indeed.

He was now terribly glad that Abby had said no.

CHAPTER FOUR

HOW HAD HE ever lived his life without this? Matteo wondered when racing day dawned.

It made the casino look like a playground.

The noise, the crowd, the scent, just the complete buzz was made all the better for having a stake in it, Matteo thought as he made his way to the Boucher shed.

He wondered as to his reception but soon found out he needn’t have.

It was quite refreshing to have no one remotely interested in him.

Pedro was playing video games and just blocking out everyone as he did what he had to do to get himself into the zone. Abby, dressed like some man in bottle-green trousers and top, with a baseball cap on, was doing some last-minute checks on the computer. The team were working on the car and Matteo knew when to stay back.

Of course she noticed him.