Damaso Claims His Heir

Damaso Claims His Heir
Annie West

When opposites attract!Damaso Pires should have known better than to get involved with Marisa, the scandalous Princess of Bengaria! Yet soon he sees her true beauty and flawless virtue, which touches a place in him he’d thought had been ruthlessly destroyed by his childhood on the streets of Brazil.But their brief affair becomes permanent when Marisa reveals she’s pregnant.Damaso knows the sting of illegitimacy and, having fought tooth and nail to claw his way up to the dizzying heights of international success and financial infamy, he won’t let his child slip from his grasp. There’s only one way to claim his heir – and that’s marriage!Discover more at www.millsandboon.co.uk/anniewest

Marisa squeezed her eyes shut, trying to gather her strength. She’d face him later if she had to. Now she needed to be alone.

‘I didn’t think anything, Damaso.’ She lingered over his name with dripping saccharine emphasis. ‘What we shared is over and done with.’

Her fingers closed around the door handle, but before she could tug it open a large hand slammed palm-down onto the door before her, keeping it forcibly closed. The heat of Damaso’s body encompassed her, his breath riffling her hair as if he was breathing as hard as she.

‘What about the fact you’re carrying my child?’

She gasped. How did he know?

Marisa stared blankly at the strong, sinewy hand before her. She blinked, remembering how that hand had looked on her skin, the pleasure it had wrought. How she’d actually hoped, for a few brief hours, that she’d found a man who valued her for herself. How betrayed she’d felt.

‘Marisa?’ His voice was sharp.

She drew a jagged breath into tight lungs and turned, her chin automatically lifting, as he glowered down at her from his superior height.

The sight of him looking so lofty and disapproving stoked fire in her belly. She’d deal with him on her terms, when she was ready.

ONE NIGHT WITH CONSEQUENCES

A high price to pay for giving in to temptation!

When succumbing to a night of unbridled desire, it’s impossible to think past the morning after!

But with the sheets barely settled that little blue line appears on the pregnancy test and it doesn’t take long to realise that one night of white-hot passion has turned into a lifetime of consequences!

Only one question remains:

How do you tell a man you’ve just met that you’re about to share more than just his bed?

Damaso Claims His Heir

Annie West

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

ANNIE WEST has devoted her life to an intensive study of tall, dark, charismatic heroes who cause the best kind of trouble in the lives of their heroines. As a sideline she’s also researched dream-worthy locations for romance, from bustling, vibrant cities to desert encampments and fairytale castles. It’s hard work, but she loves a challenge. Annie lives with her family at beautiful Lake Macquarie, on Australia’s east coast. She loves to hear from readers and you can contact her at www.annie-west.com (http://www.annie-west.com) or at PO Box 1041, Warners Bay, NSW 2282, Australia.

For Ana Luisa Neves.

With heartfelt thanks for your patience and Portuguese language expertise.

Contents

Cover (#u8291134c-3a81-5614-b70e-64e590e9e8d2)

Introduction (#u30642556-44bf-5002-9bf9-db38423cf3b9)

One Night With Consequences (#u981f9106-2c67-5326-a0fb-7a5d9f5106df)

Title Page (#u57e452cc-dcd2-5825-96f5-d26d8a8d624d)

About the Author (#ufb762c4a-87e6-5ea7-bc99-e7438acc5926)

Dedication (#ua4191c39-35f3-5c81-affa-653b067bd38b)

CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_b0e83949-e5b6-5384-9b04-20429c1e474c)

CHAPTER TWO (#ulink_c55a1198-dc8b-5a5e-b765-3d47f9633c42)

CHAPTER THREE (#ulink_30f01014-0707-5cf5-b927-48b6ac1d4813)

CHAPTER FOUR (#ulink_9176aec0-87b2-56b1-872c-c10449ddc77a)

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CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_6cf59705-cf69-58a8-a845-3beddc89e073)

DAMASO SAW HER and his breath snagged in his lungs.

He who’d had women dancing to his tune well before he made his first million.

How long since one had quickened his pulse? He’d known divas and duchesses, models and Madonnas. In the early days there’d been tourists by the armful, and one memorable tango dancer whose sinuous body and blatant sexuality had made his teenage self burn with need. None had affected him the way she did—without effort.