Accidentally Married to the Billionaire (Whirlwind Romance Series) by Shadonna Richards Page B

generous proportions by
Mother Nature. That much she knew.
    Ooh, he was sex-y!
    Kira’s mind drew a blank for just
a moment. She squeezed her eyes shut then opened them again. She felt heat rise
to her cheeks. She was sure she was blushing fifty shades of rouge or
something. It was hard to tear her gaze away from his body but she finally looked
down at her pedicured on her toes.
    “Um…you were saying?” she said,
trying not to look at him.
    Alessandro slipped into his silk
boxer shorts and began to dress himself in front of her.
    “We both found out that we have a
lot in common.”
    “We do?” Kira sounded dubious as
she watched him slide his vest on.
    “Why does that surprise you, my
dear?”
    “Because…”
    “Because what?”
    “Well, for starters, you are
a…um….wealthy businessman and I…well…”
    “You don’t know how you’ll come
up with the rent next month, is that it?”
    “How did you…?”
    “Know? Well, let’s just say we
got very friendly yesterday evening. You were nervous because this was your
first out-of-town assignment with that magazine you work for. We both discussed
the paternity suit that is going on with me right now and how it could harm my
chances of opening up a children’s hospital if they thought I had a child I
didn’t want to care for. Which is not true. I was set up. I’d never even met
that woman before. And you wanted to help me to win the bid to help children
with rare disorders. Is that correct so far?”
    Kira’s mouth fell open again. He
must really think she wanted nothing more than to catch flies.
    “I can’t believe we discussed all
that,” she finally replied, her voice faint.
    “Well, that’s why we hit it off.
It was a spur of the moment decision. You desperately wanted to live and do
something exciting with your life. By the way, I had my men do a quick
background check on you, yesterday. You work for a reputable business magazine,
Miss Watson. One has to be careful in my position.”
    “Your position?”
    “Yes. Being the top dog in a
corporation brings many enemies. Which brings me back to what I was saying
before…we both have a lot in common.”
    “I don’t have enemies…I mean…”
    He grinned as he finished
dressing by putting on an expensive-looking pair of dark dress pants. He then
reached for a crisp white shirt, a matching dark blazer and a grey tie from the
closet. After he was fully dressed in his executive suit, he looked sharp like
a GQ magazine model or something. Alessandro looked as delicious in a suit as
he did naked.
    Kira had to stop herself from
drooling over his physique.
    “We’re both misunderstood, Miss
Watson.”
    “We are?” She snapped out of her
gaze. “What makes you say that? And please…call me Kira.”
    He grinned and said nothing for a
moment. “Your friends don’t understand you and neither does your aunt. Your mother
is suffering from chronic depression that got worse after…your twin sister
passed away. Since then you’ve been trying to establish yourself and take care
of your youngest sister. Your aunt who is also your mother’s power of attorney
should she not be able to make decisions for herself, thinks you’re behaving
like an old woman instead of a young girl. She also has been telling her
friends that you don’t like men because she hasn’t seen you with a date in
years. Not knowing that you’ve been heartbroken and you don’t run around. You are
twenty-seven years old and you’re afraid of dying before doing anything
exciting with your life knowing you could be here today and gone tomorrow.”
    Kira was silent for a while. The
torment of losing her twin had been a great blow to her psyche.
    Her late twin sister had always done
exciting things in high school until she’d fallen ill just before her high
school graduation.
    Up until then Kira had been the
boring twin not doing much exciting while Kandy was the fun one that everyone
liked to be around—she was the cheerleader in