Loves Only Deception – Carole Mortimer

He enfolded her in his arms, his face buried against her throat. ‘I thought you’d say no,’ he rained kisses over her face and throat. ‘I didn’t think you would want me.’ She touched his face with trembling fingertips. ‘I’m yours, Logan. I thought you already knew that.’ ‘I do now. Callie—’ ‘Dinner is ready, Mr— oh!’ a red-faced Mrs Brown stood in the now open doorway. ‘I’m sorry, sir,’ she said stiffly. ‘I had no idea you were— occupied.’

Her arms were folded disapprovingly across her ample bosom. It took tremendous effort of will for Logan to answer the woman and keep a straight face. ‘We’ll be there in ten minutes, Mrs Brown,’ he said dismissively. ‘Yes, sir.’ With another scathing look she left the room. ‘Oh, Logan!’ Callie giggled, snuggling into his arms. ‘The poor woman was scandalised!’ ‘Damn Mrs Brown,’ he growled. ‘I’m the one you should feel sorry for, I only have ten minutes to show you how much I love you!’

Her mouth quirked provocatively. ‘Then you hadn’t better waste any of it, had you?’ she tempted. Logan grinned. ‘I think I’m going to like being married to you.’ ‘I hope so, because I don’t intend sharing you,’ she told him seriously. ‘I doubt I’ll have the time,’ he murmured into her hair.

‘I’ll make sure of it.’ ‘Not like this you won’t,’ he taunted. She stood on tiptoe to kiss him, gasping as Logan took over the initiative, his mouth at once demanding and possessive. By the time they walked into the dining-room fifteen minutes later Callie knew herself to be thoroughly kissed—and by the disapproving look on Mrs Brown’s face she knew it too!

‘Perhaps you should tell her we’re getting married,’ Callie giggled. ‘Then she might stop looking at me as though I’m one of your women.’ Logan gave what she thought of as ‘one of his arrogant looks’. ‘Even if you were just one of my “women”,’ he said haughtily, ‘she has no right to look at you in any way. I shall talk to her—’ ‘Oh no, darling!’ She clasped his hand as Mrs Brown served their dessert to them, a delicious orange concoction made with meringue.

‘Please don’t say anything to Mrs Brown, Logan,’ she pleaded once they were alone. ‘After all, I have to live here after we’re married.

Seduction of an heiress… When a good friend leaves Callie large shares of his family’s firm, overnight she becomes one of Britain’s wealthiest women and, it seems, one of its most desirable! With suitors flocking to her door, Callie soon finds herself embroiled in a sinister plot with one of the firm’s heirs—one with plans for her marriage…and divorce! So when she meets mysterious millionaire Logan Carrington, his attentions seem genuine—and their sizzling attraction is undeniable…

But can she trust that his affections are sincere? Originally published in 1982 OceanofPDF.com Love’s Only Deception Carole Mortimer OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER ONE CALLIE added jam to her buttered toast, knowing she would have to start getting ready soon, but lingering reluctantly over her breakfast, making herself another cup of coffee.

After all, it wasn’t a long drive from London to Berkshire. She wished she didn’t have to go, that Jeff hadn’t put her in this position. Hadn’t she gone through enough the last six months—her mother’s death, Jeff’s own death in a car accident, and now she had to meet his family, a family who hadn’t even wanted to speak to her themselves but had contacted her through a lawyer.

She had disliked James Seymour on sight. He had sat in that dusty-looking office, surrounded by rows and rows of huge official-looking books, the whole room looking like a mausoleum. And James Seymour had been totally in keeping with the room, fusty and old, looking down his nose at her as he informed her she was the sole beneficiary of Jeff’s will.

‘I am?’ she gasped. ‘Oh, but surely there must be some mistake,’ she protested. James Seymour looked as if he thought so too, and that Jeff, dear kind, loving Jeff, had made it! ‘I can assure you there is no mistake,’ he said in his haughty voice. ‘I was Mr Spencer’s lawyer for many years, did in fact draw up this will for him.

Caroline Day, 28, Hill Apartments, London. That is you, isn’t it?’ ‘Well…yes. But I don’t want any of—of that,’ she pointed wildly at the will laid out in front of the lawyer. He looked at her as if she were slightly deranged. ‘Three-quarters of a million pounds, seven hundred and sixty-three thousand pounds, to be exact —’ ‘Oh, let’s be exact,’ she said shrilly, sure this man didn’t know what he was talking about.

Jeff hadn’t been rich, not that rich anyway. Three- quarters of a million pounds! It was unthinkable, unimaginable. James Seymour looked at her over the top of his glasses. ‘I was being exact,’ he said stiffly. ‘There is also the matter of thirty-seven and a half per cent of the shares of Spencer Plastics—’ ‘Spencer Plastics?’ she questioned sharply. His mouth tightened.

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