When Da Silva Breaks the Rules

When Da Silva Breaks the Rules
ABBY GREEN

Is gorgeous billionaire Cesar Da Silva finally off the market?Reclusive billionaire Cesar Da Silva has hit the headlines! Not only are his family secrets about to be exposed, but he’s been caught kissing Lexie Anderson on the set of her latest movie, which is being shot at his imposing castillo!Publicity-shy Da Silva has certainly smashed his own rules by romancing the high-profile actress. A reliable source suggests he is helping Miss Anderson over her last heartbreak with a string of dazzling dates. And, if their chemistry so far is anything to go by, this is one match that’s bound to be explosive!Discover more atwww.millsandboon.co.uk/abbygreen

Cesar was losing it. He knew he was losing it. But he couldn’t take his mouth off Lexie’s. He’d never tasted anything so sweet. Or so wicked. The way that lush mouth softened under his, the feel of that body under his hands …

Dios.

Cesar finally pulled back, heart hammering. He did not ravish women in the back of his cars. He was cool, calm, controlled. Right now he felt anything but. He could hardly see straight. His body was on fire.

Lexie was looking at him with huge eyes. She thought he’d done that on purpose. And he had—but not for the reasons she obviously suspected. He wanted to make sure there was no ambiguity about how he felt about her.

He cupped that delicate jaw. Her mouth was pink, swollen. He couldn’t help running his thumb across that pouting lower lip, feeling its fleshy softness.

‘Make no mistake, Lexie, I want you … and not just to distract the crowds. You know the truth of what I said earlier. We will be lovers for real.’

BLOOD BROTHERS

Power and passion run in their veins

Rafaele and Alexio have learned that to feel emotion is to be weak. Calculated ruthlessness brings them immense success in the boardroom and in the bedroom. But a storm is coming with the sudden appearance of a long-lost half-brother, Cesar, and three women who will change their lives for ever …

ReadRafaele Falcone’sstory in:WHEN FALCONE’S WORLD STOPS TURNING February 2014

ReadAlexio Christakos’sstory in:WHEN CHRISTAKOS MEETS HIS MATCH April 2014

And readCesar Da Silva’sstory in:WHEN DA SILVA BREAKS THE RULES June 2014

When Da Silva

Breaks the Rules

Abby Green

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

ABBY GREEN spent her teens reading Mills & Boon

romances. She then spent many years working in the film and TV industry as an assistant director. One day while standing outside an actor’s trailer in the rain, she thought: There has to be more than this. So she sent off a partial to Mills & Boon

. After many rewrites they accepted her first book and an author was born. She lives in Dublin, Ireland, and you can find out more here: www.abby-green.com (http://www.abby-green.com)

Recent titles by the same author:

WHEN CHRISTAKOS MEETS HIS MATCH

(Blood Brothers) WHEN FALCONE’S WORLD STOPS TURNING (Blood Brothers) FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN? EXQUISITE REVENGE

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Contents

PROLOGUE (#ud769909e-adea-568b-a8b4-b1f704caa860)

CHAPTER ONE (#u49def7e4-3e16-5da3-8784-b9bd8797c7d9)

CHAPTER TWO (#u88e6a457-3b70-560b-a1a7-d8597a0daccd)

CHAPTER THREE (#uf29e3438-33fd-572b-8936-e77480e4e3e0)

CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIX (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN (#litres_trial_promo)

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PROLOGUE

CESAR DA SILVA hated to admit that coming here had had any effect on him, but his gut was heavy and tight as he stood on the path near the grave. He asked himself again why he’d even come and reflexively his fingers closed around the small velvet pouch with its heavy weight in his hand. He’d almost forgotten about it.

He smiled cynically. Who would have thought that at the age of thirty-seven he’d be obeying urges and compulsions? Usually he was the king of logic and reason.

People drifted away from the open grave a short distance across the hilly green space. Ornate mini-mausoleum-style headstones dotted the cemetery in the hills of Athens, its grass no doubt kept generously watered in the Greek heat.

Finally there were only two men left by the grave. Both tall, of similar height, with dark hair. One had slightly darker and shorter hair than the other. They were broad, as Cesar was, with powerful builds.

It was no wonder they were all similar. He was their half-brother. And they had no idea he even existed. He saw one put his hand on the shoulder of the other. They were Rafaele Falcone and Alexio Christakos. They all shared the same mother, but had different fathers.

Cesar waited for icy rage to surge upwards upon seeing this evidence of the family he’d always been denied, but instead he felt a kind of aching emptiness. They came towards him then, talking in quiet voices. Cesar caught his youngest half-brother’s words on the slight breeze—something like, ‘Couldn’t even clean up for the funeral...?’

Falcone replied indistinctly, with a quirk to his mouth, and Christakos riposted, smiling too.

The emptiness receded and anger rose up within Cesar. But it was a different kind of anger. These men were joking, joshing, just feet away from their mother’s grave. And since when did Cesar feel protective of the woman who had taught him from the age of three that he could depend on no one?

Galvanised by that very unwelcome revelation, Cesar moved forward and Falcone looked up, words dying on his lips, smile fading. Falcone’s gaze was enquiring at first and then, as Cesar drilled holes into him with his stare, it became something else. Cold.

With a quick flick of a glance to the younger man by his half-brother’s side, Cesar noted that they’d also all inherited varying shades of their beautiful but treacherous mother’s green eyes.