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When the devil commands…

Nikos Demakis’s plan is set. With his eye firmly on the CEO position of his grandfather’s business he will finally lay his past to rest. And Lexi Nelson holds the key. She might resist, she’ll definitely try to negotiate, but Nikos always gets what he wants.

Lexi has never met anyone like Nikos. The power that he exudes is almost overwhelming. Almost. She’s determined to prove that she’s more than a match for him. But as the playing field changes from power to passion, it soon becomes a battle of wills that she’s not sure she wants to win!

“I mean you no harm, Ms. Nelson. ”

“Yeah, right. And I’m a Victoria’s Secret model. ”

Laughter barreled out of Nikos.

Her blue eyes wide, she stared at him.

Lexi was no model, with her boyish body and non-existent curves. Yet there was something curiously appealing about her—even to his refined tastes.

“I think you’re a foot too short,” he said, letting his gaze rove over her small breasts and over her hands tightened around her waist.

Crimson slashed her cheeks.

She lifted her chin, her gaze assessing him, and despite himself, he was impressed.

“Why the power-play? You didn’t open that file in front of me to double-check your facts. You wanted me to know that you had all that information on me. Is that how you get your kicks? By collecting people’s weaknesses and using them to serve your purpose?”

“Yes,” he replied, and the colour leached from her face.

He had no delusions about himself. He was by no means above using any information in his hands to gain the upper edge in business or in life. And especially now, when it concerned his sister’s wellbeing, he would do anything.

“I need you to do something for me and I can’t take no for an answer. ”

TARA PAMMI can’t remember a moment when she wasn’t lost in a book—especially a Mills & Boon® romance, which provided so much more excitement to a teenager than a mathematics textbook. It was only years later, while struggling with her two-hundred-page thesis in a basement lab, that Tara realised what she really wanted to do: write a romance novel. She already had the requirements—a wild imagination and a love for the written word.

Tara lives in Colorado, with the most co-operative man on the planet and two daughters. Her husband and daughters are the only things that stand between Tara and a full-blown hermit life with only books for company.

A Deal with Demakis

Tara Pammi

For the strongest woman I know—my mother.

Contents

CHAPTER ONE

“MS. NELSON IS here, Nikos. ”