The Valquez Bride

The Valquez Bride
MELANIE MILBURNE

A wedding night she’ll never forget!Untouched Theodora Marlstone has always wanted the fairytale wedding – a white dress and an adoring groom. Instead she’s walking up the aisle towards a marriage of convenience to outrageously attractive Argentinian Alejandro Valquez! He promises raw sensuality, not devotion, but thanks to her father’s will Teddy must say ‘I do’…Alejandro has never wanted a wife, but his buttoned-up bride is a delicious present just waiting to be unwrapped. Beneath the white silk lies a woman who exceeds his wildest imagination – and it’s clear that this union will burn the very paper it’s written on!Discover more at www.millsandboon.co.uk/melaniemilburne

‘You said a paper marriage.’ Theodora was surprised her voice came out at all, let alone so evenly.

Alejandro’s eyes were still hooded and trained on her mouth. ‘That was the plan.’

Was? Her heart jolted against her ribcage. What did he mean, ‘was’? Was he thinking about shifting the goalposts on their arrangement? Changing the rules? Breaking the rules? A trickle of traitorous excitement flowed through her at the thought of him making love to her, of his long, strong body possessing hers. Enrapturing her in a feast of the senses that so far she had only ever imagined.

Another beat of silence.

‘You should let go of my chin.’ And stop making me want to kiss you so badly I can’t think about anything but how sexy and male and tempting your mouth is.

His thumb brushed over the base of her chin. ‘What if I don’t?’

Teddy disguised a gulp. ‘You’d be breaking the rules.’

A corner of his mouth came up in a sexy slant of a smile. ‘What if I want to break the rules?’

THE PLAYBOYS OF ARGENTINA

Introducing the untameable Valquez brothers …

The Valquez brothers are living legends.

Alejandro’s business prowess is staggering, Luiz’s success on the polo field is unparalleled, and their reputations in the bedroom are scandalous!

But they’re both about to face their biggest challenge yet …

Alejandro must marry—

but he never anticipated desiring his convenient wife!

And notorious playboy Luiz finds his match in the delectably innocent Daisy Wyndham!

You won’t want to miss this scorching new duet from Melanie Milburne!

Read Alejandro’s story in:

THE VALQUEZ BRIDE October 2014

and

Luiz’s story in:

THE VALQUEZ SEDUCTION November 2014

The Valquez Bride

Melanie Milburne

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

From as soon as MELANIE MILBURNE could pick up a pen she knew she wanted to write. It was when she picked up her first Mills & Boon® at seventeen that she realised she wanted to write romance. After being distracted for a few years by meeting and marrying her own handsome hero, surgeon husband Steve, and having two boys, plus completing a Masters of Education and becoming a nationally ranked athlete (masters swimming), she decided to write. Five submissions later she sold her first book and is now a multi-published, bestselling, award-winning USA TODAY author. In 2008 she won the Australian Readers’ Association most popular category/series romance, and in 2011 she won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia R*BY award.

Melanie loves to hear from her readers via her website,

www.melaniemilburne.com.au (http://www.melaniemilburne.com.au), or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Melanie-Milburne/351594482609 (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melanie-Milburne/351594482609).

To Nataly Espinoza, for your help with the Spanish translations, but also for your friendship. It was lovely meeting you on the tour of The Kimberleys.

xxx

Contents

Cover (#u99b4f0b7-de77-5041-9d64-0e3260a8a180)

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Title Page (#uae941684-707a-5873-9ad5-fab879488305)

About the Author (#u8e4ae74a-246b-5346-9aee-75949d482b7e)

Dedication (#u1417ea33-7633-5691-8a59-743ecde79c45)

CHAPTER ONE (#u106ea057-ebdb-5215-a65d-f4693600da1a)

CHAPTER TWO (#ua1bac6aa-279f-541c-ae7e-c0df3f057ee2)

CHAPTER THREE (#u427e41e2-b60f-5e3b-8792-2fac77ff3b5c)

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