Hot Nights with a Greek: The Greek's Forced Bride / Powerful Greek, Unworldly Wife / The Diakos Baby Scandal. Michelle Reid

      So where was the good in being his woman? she wondered furiously. ‘People would have to know I’m with you to make a bodyguard necessary for me.’

      ‘But they will know—from tonight,’ he countered, calmly folding his newspaper on that earth-rocking announcement. ‘We will be dining out with some friends of mine. So while you are shopping buy a dress—something befitting a blacktie event. Something—pretty.’

      Pretty? ‘I don’t do pretty.’ Reaching for the pot of marmalade, Natasha began spreading it liberally on the toast.

      ‘Something—colourful, then to—complement your figure.’

      ‘I am not—’ the knife worked faster ‘—going to dress up like some floozy just to help you prove a point to your awful ex-wife!’

      ‘Why? Don’t you believe you have the power to compete?’

      The challenge hit Natasha blindside, and she felt her breath stick in her throat.

      ‘It seems to me, Natasha, that you’re too easily intimidated by conceited bullies like your selfish sister and my ex-wife,’ he went on grimly. ‘Woman like them can pick a shrinking violet like you out from a hundred feet away as an easy target. But what really gets to me is that you let them. Grow up, agape mou