{"id":458,"date":"2019-10-01T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=458"},"modified":"2023-02-07T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:59:08","slug":"my-shocking-monte-carlo-confession","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/my-shocking-monte-carlo-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"My Shocking Monte Carlo Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-2stqvm-59854d2132b021b50a8773d75d54caad 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-458'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9rzne-6f1977199055a1f7a024bafa2463033e\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-9rzne-6f1977199055a1f7a024bafa2463033e{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-9rzne-6f1977199055a1f7a024bafa2463033e .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-9rzne-6f1977199055a1f7a024bafa2463033e .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-9rzne-6f1977199055a1f7a024bafa2463033e 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\"  >My Shocking Monte Carlo Confession<\/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-2jmxxe-a298c673572b33e8752182f1b7baa67f\">\n.flex_column.av-2jmxxe-a298c673572b33e8752182f1b7baa67f{\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-2jmxxe-a298c673572b33e8752182f1b7baa67f 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-k17zoabj-b99d5553126f0dbabe10581174e7d121'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em><strong>One night in Monte Carlo\u2026 <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Now I\u2019m about to change the playboy\u2019s life \u2014 forever!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s Monaco racing royalty and I, Belle Simpson, was his housekeeper. But that evening, Alexi Galanti\u2019s searing blue gaze exhilarated me. Neither of us could think about anything beyond our desire for one another\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now, five years later, I finally have the chance to reveal my scandalous secret\u2014Alexi\u2019s a father! Even though he\u2019s scarred by his parents\u2019 abandonment, I know Alexi will never desert his son. But falling for him would be a dangerous mistake, even\u00a0<em>if<\/em>\u00a0I\u2019ve never stopped yearning for his touch!<\/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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aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue924' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Order in the UK<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-22ds1m-c8d302bc371a19690fa5b039ee1c7702 alternate_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-458'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-8sn9u-dda18ae3894279eb165a7a7f238e8f53\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-8sn9u-dda18ae3894279eb165a7a7f238e8f53{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-8sn9u-dda18ae3894279eb165a7a7f238e8f53 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-8sn9u-dda18ae3894279eb165a7a7f238e8f53 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-8sn9u-dda18ae3894279eb165a7a7f238e8f53 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-11  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Excerpt:<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k18020v3-5952dd77543d2d197c69f426c9b4d75d'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Belle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I had wanted everything from Alexi Galanti. Not just his body, but his love. But as I stared at his tall, muscular body dressed in a T-shirt and worn jeans, the fabric stretched enticingly across pectoral muscles that had only become more defined in the last five years\u2014not quite sure if he was real or a figment of my over-active imagination\u2014I knew those desires were childish dreams borne of infatuation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d locked those dreams away five years ago after the cruel banishment which had left me destitute, disillusioned and alone at nineteen.<\/p>\n<p>And, as I\u2019d discovered two months later, pregnant with his child.<\/p>\n<p>I refused to let them resurface now just because he was even more handsome and compelling at thirty than he had been at twenty-five.<\/p>\n<p>I was twenty-four now and I\u2019d survived what he\u2019d done to me. And I had a wonderful son whom I adored.<\/p>\n<p>I struggled to quell the old yearning which shivered through me at the sight of him. A yearning I\u2019d never been able to feel for any other man.<\/p>\n<p>Heat careered into my cheeks as I watched him stiffen, the knowledge of who I was hitting him as hard as it had hit me a few moments before.<\/p>\n<p>Good, I was glad. I wanted him to feel as raw as I did.<\/p>\n<p>But, as soon as the ungenerous thought occurred to me, another horrifying realisation hit me\u2014bringing with it the guilt I had struggled with for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no! My cousin Jessie was bringing Cai\u2014my son\u2014to meet me at the track this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d known it was a risk, agreeing to come to Barcelona to test drive the car I\u2019d helped develop in my role as Camaro\u2019s fuel-efficiency expert for their R&amp;D department in the UK. But Renzo, my boss, had been quite insistent and I had checked to make sure the Galanti team weren\u2019t scheduled to be at the test track today.<\/p>\n<p>Cai loved the cars and the trip had been a special treat for him. But I didn\u2019t want him to come face to face with his father\u2014or vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never contacted Alexi to tell him about his son. I\u2019d been in a daze, still struggling to cope with the loss of Remy, not to mention my job and my life in Monaco, when I\u2019d discovered I was pregnant five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t had the courage or the strength to face Alexi then and as my pregnancy had progressed I had quickly begun to justify my cowardice to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Alexi had made it very clear he hated me, that he blamed me for Remy\u2019s death. He\u2019d told me he never wanted to see me again, that he\u2019d have me arrested if he did. He\u2019d called me a whore and implied I was a gold-digger. He probably wouldn\u2019t even have believed the child was his, so what would have been the point?<\/p>\n<p>And, in the years since Cai\u2019s birth, it had become easier and easier not to make that call. My sweet, beautiful, smiley little boy, who looked so much like his father but would always be mine, would never know the cynicism, the coldness, of the man who had sired him. Really, I was just protecting my son.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d seen reports of Alexi\u2019s love life in the press, in gossip columns and celebrity blogs, over the intervening years too and had convinced myself Alexi wouldn\u2019t want to be a father. That I was doing him a favour by not divulging to him he had a son. Surely he wouldn\u2019t want to be tied down, to have his rampant womanising and glamorous social life hampered by a toddler?<\/p>\n<p>But, now I was faced with the possibility of him meeting Cai for the first time, all my justifications began to crumble.<\/p>\n<p>The guilt combined with the inappropriate yearning in the pit of my stomach and made me plummet me into the black hole I remembered from the last time I\u2019d seen him\u2014creating a wave of pure, unadulterated panic<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d always told myself that one day\u2014when Cai was older, and I had become the foremost R&amp;D specialist in the Super League and had some serious professional clout\u2014I would get up the guts to inform Alexi of his son\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p>But this wasn\u2019t that day. I wasn\u2019t ready to face that reality. Not yet. And neither was Cai. I hadn\u2019t prepared Cai for this news. And I doubted Alexi would even care if he had a son.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I need you to leave,\u2019 I said, my voice firm, even though I was shaking inside from fear and the heat that would never die as long as I was in the same room as this man.<\/p>\n<p>He hadn\u2019t said anything, he\u2019d been rooted to the spot, but he controlled himself a lot faster than I did, the naked shock on his face masked by the cynical expression I remembered from our graveside parting. Although the heat in his gaze told another story, a heat I recognised from that fateful night when we had conceived Cai.<\/p>\n<p>How could we still want each other when we both hated each other so much? I wondered vaguely, as my frantic mind tried to grasp the logistics of how I was going to avert the disaster galloping towards me with each tick of the clock.<\/p>\n<p><em>Calm down, Belle, and don\u2019t show him any weakness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had twenty minutes. They weren\u2019t due here till three. I had time. All I had to do was get Alexi to leave before Jessie and Cai arrived. Surely it wouldn\u2019t be that hard, now he knew who I was? After all, he had been prepared to pay thousands of euros five years ago so he\u2019d never have to see me again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The offer still stands,\u2019 he said at last.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2026 What? You can\u2019t be serious,\u2019 I said, stunned. Surely he couldn\u2019t believe I would want to spend any time in his company, let alone work for him?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m deadly serious. I need a reserve driver and I want you\u2026 You should be on the track, not behind it. Once you\u2019re signed with Galanti we can discuss the possibility of getting a full driver spot for you, maybe next season. I\u2019ll make it worth your while to break your attachment to Camaro\u2026\u2019 His gaze dipped, his perusal swift but no less insulting, and the heat ignited in my cheeks as I saw the spark of desire and realised he thought Renzo and I were lovers.<\/p>\n<p>I knew rumours were rife on the track and in the Camaro team that I was sleeping with the boss. Renzo had been instrumental in advancing my career, hiring me for his R&amp;D team straight after I&#8217;d finished my masters in bioengineering and alternative fuel technology last year. He had been remarkably flexible about my childcare commitments on the job, had befriended Cai\u2014who idolised him\u2014and I did sometimes wonder if he thought of me as more than an employee and a friend\u2026 But he had never stepped over that line and I certainly hadn\u2019t encouraged him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not for sale,\u2019 I said flatly, determined not to let my hurt at Alexi\u2019s insinuations show.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t need this man\u2019s approval. It had taken me five years to get over his rejection. When I\u2019d arrived in the UK and discovered I was carrying his child, the grief for Remy and everything I\u2019d lost the day he\u2019d died had all but destroyed me.<\/p>\n<p>My confidence, and my sense of self had been left in tatters but I\u2019d dragged myself up off the floor, with the help of my wonderful second cousin Jessie, and forced myself to concentrate on what mattered.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d had my child and dedicated myself to supporting us both with two jobs, while taking on a mountain of student debt and studying late into the night to realise a new dream that in the last year had finally started to take off.<\/p>\n<p>I had been a fool to keep the news of his child from him, something about which I had become starkly aware in the last few minutes. I would have to rectify that as soon as I could manage the news in a way that wouldn\u2019t hurt Cai.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn\u2019t have to defend my professional reputation to Alexi or anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s a shame,\u2019 Alexi said, his husky voice sending goose bumps skittering over my skin. \u2018Because, whatever Renzo is paying you, you\u2019re worth more. And with the talent I saw on the track ten minutes ago it\u2019s obvious you should be driving.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t want to drive, not competitively,\u2019 I said, pushing past the sexual fog threatening to envelop me, to concentrate on getting him out of here. I didn\u2019t have time for a negotiation. Or to obsess over the way he could still make me feel simply by looking at me.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I have to be so affected by this man? It was as if a spell had been cast on me as soon as I\u2019d hit puberty and I couldn\u2019t escape the enchantment of my own body.<\/p>\n<p><em>So not the point, Belle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Why the hell don\u2019t you want to drive?\u2019 Alexi shot back, his frustration only making his dark good looks and intense gaze all the more overwhelming. \u2018That was always your dream ever since you were a kid, wasn\u2019t it?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised he had remembered that much about me. As a teenager, and later as a man, he had always made a point of ignoring me. Until that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was my dream once,\u2019 I said. \u2018It\u2019s not my dream any more. Now, would you please leave before I call security?\u2019 It was an empty threat, and we both knew it. No security guy in his right mind would eject Alexi Galanti from the track\u2014the man was motor-racing royalty. But I was desperate.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, he ignored the threat and, instead of leaving, stepped closer. Close enough for me to capture his intoxicating scent\u2014spice, musk and the hint of pine soap. The aroma made my knees shake, propelling me back to that night\u2014somewhere I so did not need to go ever again.<\/p>\n<p>I stood my ground, though, because showing Alexi a weakness had never ended well.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Tell me why,\u2019 he insisted, the frustration disappearing to be replaced with something much more disturbing\u2014genuine interest in me and my life, something I\u2019d yearned for all through my teenage years. \u2018Tell me why you gave up on your dream, <em>bella notte<\/em>,\u2019 he repeated, his voice soft, coaxing, as he used the nickname he had coined that night, no doubt to intimidate me more. \u2018And then I\u2019ll leave.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I opened my mouth, determined to give him an answer, any answer that would make him leave and take this pointless yearning away again. But the only explanation I could think of was the real one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Because I have a child, a son, who I love more than life itself. And I\u2019m the only person he has. I can\u2019t risk leaving him alone\u2014dying the way Remy died. So I found a way to readjust my dreams. To feed my passion for racing\u2014while also fulfilling my obligations to my child.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I couldn\u2019t tell him that.<\/p>\n<p>As I racked my brains, trying to come up with a viable alternative reason Alexi would believe, it occurred to me I\u2019d been hoisted by my own dishonesty.<\/p>\n<p>And then the door burst open and Cai ran into the room ten minutes early, a four-year-old bundle of energy\u2026and the black hole in the pit of my stomach imploded. For the first time in my life I was not pleased to see him.<\/p>\n<p>My time had run out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mummy, Mummy, I saw the car!\u2019 he cried, practically bursting with excitement as he raced towards me, oblivious to Alexi and everything else. \u2018Mr Renzo let me touch it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He ran past Alexi, who stepped back, his dark brows launching up his forehead. Cai\u2019s sturdy body barrelled into me and the love I had felt for him as soon as I\u2019d held him in my arms after ten agonising hours of labour washed through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mr Renzo said I could sit in it if I\u2019m good.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Cai\u2019s arms wrapped around my legs as he peered up at me, the love in his eyes all-consuming and utterly uncomplicated. The blue of his irises was the same true, iridescent aquamarine as those of the man standing two feet away, staring at him as if he were an alien.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can I, Mummy? Can I?\u2019 he pleaded, completely oblivious to the tension now snapping in the room. I could almost feel Alexi\u2019s mind working as he stared at my child and calculated dates and ages. Cai was tall for a four-year-old, probably because his father was six-foot-three, but that wasn\u2019t going to help me.<\/p>\n<p>With the light from the window shining onto Cai\u2019s dark, wavy hair and illuminating his face and his Galanti bone structure\u2014which had become more defined in the last year or two as he\u2019d grown from toddlerhood into boyhood\u2014the resemblance to his father was all the more striking.<\/p>\n<p>Alexi was not a stupid man, and as my gaze connected with his over Cai\u2019s head I watched as he figured out Cai\u2019s heritage\u2014the stunned disbelief turning to shock before a sharp frown flattened his brows and his sensual lips pursed into a tight line of accusation.<\/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-1wb9j6-b2d647458c9c0c105f7e57b51a08c277 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-13  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