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“More than anything in the world,” he said, his voice low, “I want to be your husband and you to be my wife. Faith Crawford, will you marry me?”
“I want that so badly.” She swiped at the tears still rolling freely down her cheeks. “Yes, I’ll marry you.”
He slid the ring onto her finger and then kissed her slowly, reverently. As he pulled away, he whispered against her mouth, “I think this is the start of our biggest adventure yet.”
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When the tycoon discovers that his enemy is pregnant with his child, nothing will stop him from pursuing his heir...and the woman he risks losing his heart to...
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PURSUED
the second story in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff’s The Diamond Tycoons duet.
He was the most beautiful man she’d ever seen.
Desi Maddox knew that sounded excessive, melodramatic even, but the longer she stood there staring at him, the more convinced she became.
His emerald gaze met hers over the sea of people stretching between them and her knees trembled. Her heart raced and her palms grew damp with the force of her reaction to a man she’d never seen before and more than likely would never see again.
It was a deflating thought, and exactly what she needed to remind herself of what she was doing here among the best and brightest of San Diego’s high society. Scoping out hot men was definitely not what her boss was paying her for. Unfortunately.
Wanting to free up her hands, she turned to place her glass on the empty tray of yet another passing waiter. As she turned back, though, her eyes once again met dark green ones. And, this time, the man they belonged to was only a couple of feet away.
She didn’t know whether to run or rejoice.
In the end, she just stared—stupefied—up into his too-gorgeous face and tried to think of something to say that wouldn’t make her sound like a total moron. Her usually quick mind was a blank, filled with nothing but images of high cheekbones. Shaggy black hair that fell over his forehead. Wickedly gleaming eyes. The sensuous mouth turned up in a wide, charming smile. Broad shoulders. And height. He was so tall she was forced to look up, despite the fact that she stood close to six feet in her four-inch heels.
“You look thirsty,” he said, and—of course—his voice matched the rest of him. All deep and dark and husky and wickedly amused. “I’m Nic, by the way.”
“I’m Desi.” She held out her hand. He took it, but instead of shaking it as she’d expected, he held it as he gently stroked his thumb across the back.
It was so soft, so intimate, so not what she’d been expecting, that for long seconds she didn’t know what to do. A tiny voice inside her was whispering for her to escape from the attraction holding them in thrall. But it was drowned out by the heat, the sizzle, that arced between them like lightning.
“Would you like to dance, Desi?” he asked.
She should say no. But even as the thought occurred to her, even knowing that she might very well get burned before the night was over, she nodded.
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