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The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1) QUOTES

The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1) QUOTES

1 " He felt strangled by helplessness. "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)

2 " agape "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)

3 " She stared earnestly at him, her eyes pleading.

“Tell me, Chrysander. I need to know. What were we like before? How did we meet? Were we very in love?”

He turned toward the water and shoved his hands back into his pockets. “You worked for me,” he said gruffly.

She moved beside him, not touching him. But she was close enough that he could feel the soft hiccups of her breaths.

“I did? At your hotel?”

He shook his head. “In the corporate offices. You were my assistant.”

She looked at him in shock. “But Roslyn is your assistant, and she seems awfully comfortable in that role. Like she’s been there for years.”

He offered a small smile. “You weren’t my assistant for long. I was too intent on having you in my bed. I convinced you to quit and move in with me. You were too much of a distraction for me at work.”

She didn’t look pleased by his statement. A worried frown worked over her face, and her lips turned down into a dissatisfied moue.

“So you’ve made it a practice to put me where it’s most convenient for you,” she murmured.

He cursed softly under his breath, but again, he couldn’t very well deny that he’d been intent on having his way when it came to her.

“And I allowed this?” she asked. “I just quit my job and moved in with you?”

He shrugged. “You seemed as happy to be with me as I was with you. "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)

4 " Thirty minutes later, Chrysander escorted her out to the helipad, and as soon as the helicopter lifted off, he turned and strode back into the house.

His anger and uncertainty evaporated when he entered the bedroom and found Marley sitting on the bed, wrapped only in a towel, her expression sad and distant.

He knelt in front of her and touched her cheek. “What is it, agape mou? Are you all right?”

She smiled, though it didn’t reach her eyes. Her beautiful blue eyes that had sparkled just a short time ago with laughter. He wanted them to sparkle again. He wanted that stolen moment at the pool back. Before Roslyn had arrived and given him news that could very well change everything between him and Marley. Again.

“I’m in an impossible situation,” she confessed.

His brow wrinkled in confusion. He didn’t like the sadness in her tone. The resignation.

“What do you mean?” he asked softly as he trailed a finger down the silken curve of her cheek.

She looked into his eyes. “I don’t like the way she has free rein in our lives. This is our home. We should be able to make love, have fun together, without fear of being caught in a compromising situation by a stranger. But if I voice this, if I say I don’t like her and I don’t want her here, it makes me a catty bitch. There is no way for me to come out the winner and every way for me to be the loser in this. "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)

5 " You can’t mean to marry her!” Roslyn’s shrill voice rose. “Do you forget how she stole from you? That she tried to ruin your company? If you need any reminders, just look at the new hotels going up in Paris and Rome. Your hotels, Chrysander. Only they’re going up under your competitor’s name.”

A haze blew through Marley’s mind. Red hot. Like a swarm of angry bees, tidbits of information began buzzing in her head. And suddenly it was as if a dam broke. The locked door in her mind that she’d tried so hard to budge simply opened, and the past came roaring through with vicious velocity.

She swayed and gripped the door frame tighter. Nausea boiled in her stomach as each and every moment flashed like a movie in fast-forward.

Chrysander’s angry accusation of thievery. His ordering her from their apartment, his life. Her abduction and the months she’d spent in hopeless fear, waiting for Chrysander to answer the ransom demands. Demands he’d ignored.

Oh God, she was going to be sick.

He’d left her. Discarded her like a piece of rubbish. The half million dollars, a paltry sum to a man of Chrysander’s means, was an amount he’d been unwilling to part with to ensure her return.

Everything had been a lie. He’d lied to her nonstop since she’d awoken in the hospital. He didn’t love her or want her. He despised her.

She hadn’t been worth half a million dollars to him.

Pain splintered through her chest as she shattered. As everything she’d known as true suddenly turned black. Her heart withered and cracked, falling in pieces around her.

He hadn’t tried to save her.

The tortured cry that ripped from her mouth echoed through the room. She clamped a hand over her lips, but it was too late. Everyone looked her way. Theron flinched, and an odd discomfort settled over Piers’s face. She met Chrysander’s gaze, and she could see the truth in his eyes as he realized that she remembered. "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)

6 " Chrysander set a plate piled high with food in front of her then settled into a seat across from her. She piddled with her fork and toyed with the food, pushing it around the plate as she avoided his gaze.

He sighed, and she looked up to see him staring at her. His expression was somber, as though he was enduring the worst sort of hell. She nearly laughed at the absurdity. To her horror, she felt the prick of tears, and his face swam in her vision. "

― Maya Banks , The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)