{"id":330,"date":"2019-01-03T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=330"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T09:02:44","slug":"claiming-my-untouched-mistress","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/claiming-my-untouched-mistress\/","title":{"rendered":"Claiming My Untouched Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-44q5he-623f6cd9cbdecb771a2297706ae4fb24 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-330'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9ss3m-f649848b13dbf341d063a60755c7012b\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-9ss3m-f649848b13dbf341d063a60755c7012b{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-9ss3m-f649848b13dbf341d063a60755c7012b .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-9ss3m-f649848b13dbf341d063a60755c7012b .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-9ss3m-f649848b13dbf341d063a60755c7012b av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Claiming My Untouched Mistress<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3o6bmy-dfab3bcf4b9b54546f9687016d228ac9\">\n.flex_column.av-3o6bmy-dfab3bcf4b9b54546f9687016d228ac9{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-3o6bmy-dfab3bcf4b9b54546f9687016d228ac9 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3m7aje-8dc297bd910f78fd29923d1fe95fea1a'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><strong>I\u2019ve drawn her into my world\u2026 And she\u2019s mine to awaken!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWalking into my casino, Edie Spencer seemed like a spoilt heiress\u2014until she agreed to clear her family\u2019s debts by posing as my temporary mistress. My plan? To use her to expose my business rivals. Yet discovering Edie\u2019s innocence has led to greater temptation than I could have imagined. Our chemistry is spectacular\u2014now I\u2019ll claim Edie for so much more than pleasure!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My Hot Monaco Nights<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In the capital of glitz and glamour, three lone billionaires discover the power of innocence&#8230; And love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>#1: <a href=\"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/claiming-my-untouched-mistress\/\"><em>Claiming My Untouched Mistress<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Dante and Edie<\/p>\n<p>#2: <a href=\"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/my-shocking-monte-carlo-confession\/\"><em>My Shocking Monte Carlo Confession<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Alexi and Belle<\/p>\n<p>#3: <a href=\"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/redeemed-by-my-forbidden-housekeeper\/\"><em>Redeemed By My Forbidden Housekeeper<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Jessie and Renzo \u2013 Out Oct 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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to control the tidal wave of panic surging through me as I read the sign on Dante Allegri\u2019s Monaco casino.<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to The Inferno<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The glitter of lights gave the building\u2019s imposing eighteenth-century fa\u00e7ade a fairy-tale glow in the Mediterranean night\u2014making me feel like even more of a fraud in the second-hand designer gown and uncomfortable ice-pick heels my sister and I had sourced online. What I was about to do could make or break my family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please God, don\u2019t let Dante Allegri be in the house tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d seen photos of Allegri, and read myriad articles about him in the last month as I prepared for this night. He scared me as a competitor but terrified me as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Allegri was famous for his ruthlessness, having risen from the slums of Naples to create a billion-dollar empire of casinos in Europe and the US. If I had to play against him, and he figured out the system I had developed, he would show me no mercy.<\/p>\n<p>A sea breeze from the marina below the casino lifted the tendrils of hair off my neck which had escaped the elaborate up-do my sister had spent hours constructing from my unruly curls. Shivers racked my body, but I knew it wasn\u2019t the warm summer night that was making me feel so cold inside\u2014it was fear.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stop standing here like a dummy and move.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lifting the hem of the gown, I walked up the marble stairs to the main entrance, making an effort to keep my back straight and my gaze forward. The million-dollar bank draft borrowed from my brother-in-law\u2019s loan shark stashed in the jewelled clutch purse on my wrist felt as if it weighed several tons.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018You want to throw good money after bad, that\u2019s your choice, Ms Trouv\u00e9, but I\u2019ll be here tomorrow to collect, whatever happens.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The words of Brutus Severin, Carsoni\u2019s muscle man, echoed in my head and the chill spread like a frost.<\/p>\n<p>This was my last chance to free us from the threats and intimidation, the possibility of losing not just our family home, but also our dignity and self-respect. Something my sister Jude\u2019s husband Jason had stolen from us twelve months ago\u2014after losing a fortune at Allegri\u2019s roulette tables.<\/p>\n<p>Failure simply was not an option tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I approached the security detail standing guard at the entrance and passed them my ID card. I prayed that Carsoni\u2019s forger had done the job we had paid him for. The guard nodded and passed it back to me. But my panic refused to subside.<\/p>\n<p>What if my system didn\u2019t work? Or had more tells than I had anticipated. I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d had enough time to test it properly\u2014and I had never had the opportunity to test it against players of Allegri\u2019s calibre. How did I know it would stand up to scrutiny? I was a maths prodigy, not a poker player, for goodness\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n<p>The buy-in for tonight\u2019s game was a staggering one million euros. And it was one million euros I could not afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>If Allegri was here, and decided to play\u2014as he occasionally did, according to my research\u2014and he beat me, not only would Belle Rivi\u00e8re be lost for ever, but I would owe Carsoni an extra million euros I couldn\u2019t repay. Because the sale of the property, now we\u2019d already mortgaged it and sold all our other valuables and most of the furniture, would only cover the balance of Jason\u2019s losses and the astronomical interest Carsoni had been charging us since the night Jason had disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please, I\u2019m begging you, God. Don\u2019t let Allegri be here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The door guard signaled to a tall, good-looking man standing at the entrance to the main floor. He joined us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Welcome to The Inferno, Miss Spencer,\u2019 the man said. \u2018I\u2019m Joseph Donnelly, the casino manager. We have you listed as one of tonight\u2019s club buy-ins.\u2019 He sent me a quizzical look, obviously not used to having someone of my age and gender join the casino\u2019s exclusive weekly poker tournament. \u2018Is that correct?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I nodded, trying to channel my inner elite, entitled heiress\u2014something I had never been, even though my mother had been the granddaughter of a French count.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ve heard The Inferno\u2019s game is one of the most challenging,\u2019 I said. \u2018I was hoping Allegri would be here tonight,\u2019 I lied smoothly\u2014playing the pampered rich girl to the hilt. If life with my mother had taught me one thing, before she died, it was how to appear confident when I felt the opposite.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Appearances are everything, ma petite chou. If they think you are one of them, you cannot fail.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The casino manager sent me an easy smile, and I waited for the words I hoped to hear\u2014that my research had paid off and Dante was in Nice this evening, wining and dining the model he had been linked with for several weeks in the celebrity press.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dante\u2019s here tonight; I\u2019m sure he\u2019d relish the challenge.\u2019 Donnelly\u2019s words didn\u2019t register at first, and then they slammed into me.<\/p>\n<p><em>No. No. No.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I pasted a smile on my face, the same smile I had worn at my mother\u2019s funeral to receive the condolences of journalists who had hounded her throughout her life, while coping with the body blow of fresh grief.<\/p>\n<p>My movements were stiff, though, as Donnelly led me to the teller\u2019s booth to deposit the stake I had borrowed at two thousand per cent interest. The stake I couldn\u2019t afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>I ran all the possibilities over in my mind. Could I back out now? Make up some fictitious excuse? Pretend I was sick? Because that wasn\u2019t a lie\u2014my stomach was churning like a storm at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Allegri was one of the best poker players in the world. Not only could I lose all the money but if he figured out my system he could have me banned from every reputable casino. So I\u2019d have no chance of ever recovering Jason\u2019s losses.<\/p>\n<p>Even as my frantic mind tried to grasp and dissect all the possibilities, though, I knew I couldn\u2019t back out. I\u2019d taken a chance Allegri wouldn\u2019t be here and I\u2019d lost. But I had to go through with tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Before I had a chance to handle the visceral fear at the thought of facing Allegri with so much at stake, a deep voice reverberated down my spine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Joe, Matteo tells me all the players have arrived.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I swung round and came face to face with the man who had haunted my dreams\u2014and most of my waking hours\u2014for months, ever since I\u2019d begun working on this scheme to free our family from debt. To my shock, Allegri was even taller, broader and more devastatingly handsome in the flesh than he had been in the numerous celebrity blogs and magazines I\u2019d been monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>I knew he was only thirty, but the harsh angles of his face, and the unyielding strength of muscle and sinew barely contained by the expensive tuxedo, made it clear that the softness and inexperience of youth\u2014if he had ever been young or soft\u2014had left him long ago. Everything about him exuded power and confidence, and a frightening arrogance. No, not arrogance. Arrogance implied a sense of entitlement beyond one\u2019s abilities. This man was fully aware of his abilities, and was ready to use them with complete ruthlessness.<\/p>\n<p>His vivid blue gaze flickered over my face\u2014and one dark eyebrow raised a fraction of a centimetre. The tiny tell vanished as soon as it had appeared. His intense gaze took a quick tour down my body. The provocative dress became instantly transparent while at the same time squeezing the air out of my lungs, as if the thin satin had turned to cast iron and was tightening around my ribs like a piece of medieval torture equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the looks I had experienced from Carsoni and his men over the last year, though, Dante Allegri\u2019s perusal didn\u2019t cause revulsion but something much more disturbing. A heavy weight sunk low into my abdomen and sensation prickled over my skin as if I were being stroked by an electric current. His attention was exhilarating and enervating, pleasurable and painful all at the same time. My reaction shocked me, because I couldn\u2019t seem to control it. My thighs trembled, my breasts swelled against the bodice of my medieval torture equipment, and it took an effort of titanic proportions to stop my breathing from speeding up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s correct, Dante,\u2019 Joseph Donnelly replied to his boss. \u2018This is Edie Spencer,\u2019 he added, wrenching me out of the trance Allegri\u2019s presence had caused. \u2018She\u2019s just arrived and is hoping to play you tonight.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I winced at the amusement in Donnelly\u2019s tone, my panic increasing to go with the inexplicable aches all over my body. As if it wasn\u2019t bad enough that I had tossed myself into the lion\u2019s den tonight, I had decided to poke the lion with that foolish boast.<\/p>\n<p>Allegri didn\u2019t look particularly impressed as his intense gaze roamed over my face.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Exactly how old are you, Miss Spencer?\u2019 he asked, addressing me directly for the first time. His English was perfect, the accent a mid-Atlantic hybrid of American and British with barely a hint of his native Italian. \u2018Are you even legally allowed to be here?\u2019 he added, and I bristled at the condescension. It was a long time since I\u2019d felt like a child, let alone been treated like one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Of course\u2014I\u2019m twenty-one,\u2019 I said in a show of defiance that probably wasn\u2019t wise, but something about the way he was looking at me\u2014as if he actually saw me\u2014and the disturbing conflagration of sensation that look was setting off all over my body made me bold.<\/p>\n<p>He continued to stare at me, as if he were trying to see into my soul, and I forced myself not to break eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>The noise from the main floor of the casino, as Europe\u2019s billionaire elite tried their luck at roulette and vingt-et-un, faded to a distant hum under his intense scrutiny\u2014until all I could hear was the thunder of my own heartbeat thumping my ribs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-1xms2y-b22340aba48c12db4ee8996d1640072b 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