{"id":735,"date":"2022-05-16T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=735"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T20:20:20","slug":"unwrapping-his-new-york-innocent","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/unwrapping-his-new-york-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwrapping His New York Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-b0aiv-e285b79aa7917100fdf2cfd828fa6bf6 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-735'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k3yawgpy-a4aa7c1583442b7e100a3cde4e2756eb\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-a4aa7c1583442b7e100a3cde4e2756eb{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-a4aa7c1583442b7e100a3cde4e2756eb .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-k3yawgpy-a4aa7c1583442b7e100a3cde4e2756eb .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-k3yawgpy-a4aa7c1583442b7e100a3cde4e2756eb av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  av-linked-heading'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Unwrapping His New York Innocent<\/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-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c\">\n.flex_column.av-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c{\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-2y2g1z-f1e6ce40db8d3afab0eff1dc64311b8c 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-jycr59r9-976ddc8ef0d42ce5433b8126640f9c2c'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>From a Halloween ball\u2026<span class=\"a-text-italic\">\u2026to Christmas in the tycoon\u2019s bed!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desperate for adventure, Ellie MacGregor takes a waitressing job at a glamorous NYC party! Though sheltered, she\u2019ll seize life\u2019s opportunities with both hands. Especially when life presents her with the gorgeous host, Alex Costa\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Is Ellie really as sweet and innocent as she seems? He might not trust\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">anyone<\/span>\u00a0anymore, but cynical Alex is intrigued by the scorching heat between them. He\u2019s intent on keeping Ellie at arm\u2019s length emotionally. Yet that could prove impossible when the fling they embark on unwraps the most intimate of secrets\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Billion-Dollar Christmas Confessions:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>#1: <strong><em><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Unwrapping His New York Innocent<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Heidi Rice<br \/>\n#2: <em><strong><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Carrying Her Boss&#8217;s Christmas Baby<\/span><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Natalie Anderson<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706\">\n.flex_column.av-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706{\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-9o71j-17d72fa88a16a96bbe2af9ada5ff0706 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_fourth  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UK<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-2co5cf-5ad8ef24fac48d0a19b1cffd0a308764 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-735'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-78mif-da489f367d0bb5f642cfde0f06eeebf2\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-78mif-da489f367d0bb5f642cfde0f06eeebf2{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-78mif-da489f367d0bb5f642cfde0f06eeebf2 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-78mif-da489f367d0bb5f642cfde0f06eeebf2 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I got a better offer. Have a good one. And don\u2019t hit on anyone I wouldn\u2019t hit on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018That leaves me a lot of leeway,\u2019 Alex Costa muttered as he glared at the text from his best buddy, Roman Fraser\u2014who had bailed on him. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Roman\u2019s \u2018better offer\u2019 probably had a cute face and an even cuter figure. He didn\u2019t blame the guy for bailing though. Parties weren\u2019t Roman\u2019s thing, especially parties that involved dress-up. Truth be told, they weren\u2019t Alex\u2019s thing much either. He\u2019d started the Halloween bash seven years ago when Costa Tech had hit the Forbes Global 2000 list for the first time and he\u2019d officially become a billionaire at the ripe old age of twenty-three. The themed ball had been a classy way to announce himself on the world stage. He didn\u2019t need the publicity now, but the party had become a staple of Manhattan\u2019s social calendar.<\/p>\n<p>He really wasn\u2019t feeling it tonight though as he stood on the balcony of his top-floor suite and watched the festivities below. A ton of people he didn\u2019t really know and cared even less about partied in an array of pricey designer costumes while oohing and ahhing at the outdoor space, which had been transformed into a haunted house and graveyard by an A-list Broadway set designer and her crew.<\/p>\n<p>He should go check it out himself\u2014but first he\u2019d have to put himself at the mercy of the hair and make-up team who\u2019d been waiting for over an hour to deck him out in whatever outfit his executive assistant had ordered.<\/p>\n<p>He swallowed a mouthful of the expensive Scotch he\u2019d poured himself when he\u2019d arrived from his downtown office ten minutes ago. This evening would have been a whole lot more bearable if his ride-or-die pal, Roman, were here to make a dumbass of himself too. He\u2019d also hoped to hang with Roman tonight because he knew his pal was heading off on business until Thanksgiving. And Roman always went to ground in the run-up to Christmas too, because it was a tough time of year for him. Alex shivered. He\u2019d never liked Christmas much himself, not since he was a little kid.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks, Pop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He shook off the unbidden reminder of his father, Carmine Da Costa. A man who everyone had adored, except for Alex. Because Alex knew the truth of his father\u2019s lies and half-truths. The evasion and the subterfuge. The \u2018other women\u2019 Carmine had kept all over the Bronx, while pretending to be a great husband. And a devoted father.<\/p>\n<p>His mom had figured it out eventually, but his siblings not so much.<\/p>\n<p>He squinted down at the party guests, surprised by the feeling of aching loneliness that he hadn\u2019t felt in a long time. Why the heck was he thinking of his old man? The family he never saw any more?<\/p>\n<p><em>Time to get over yourself, Costa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But just as he was about to head inside, his eye caught a waitress winding her way through the guests\u2014in a costume the size of a place mat. He rubbed his hand across his mouth, annoyed by the shot of lust racing through his bloodstream as he took in her slender shape and the tumble of chestnut curls piled on top of her head.<\/p>\n<p>What the heck was she supposed to be? Because she looked like an R-rated pixie. Whose dumb idea had it been to dress the wait staff like that at the end of October? She had to be freezing. As he followed her movements through the crowd\u2014his gaze glued to the tempting sway of her butt in the barely there green silk skirt that fluttered around toned thighs displayed in fishnet pantyhose\u2014he got even more pissed about the decision.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time he\u2019d felt this visceral rush of attraction? Way too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>But there was no way he was hitting on the wait staff\u2014because that was so not a classy move. Which meant Roman was definitely the only one getting lucky tonight.<\/p>\n<p>He chugged the last of the whisky, felt the burn in his throat and walked inside.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more reason to give his pal hell next time he saw him.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hey, cutie, you got any more of these witchy martinis?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ellie swung round, tottering on the mile-high heels that had given her blisters the size of Brooklyn hours ago, to see the preppy-looking Frankenstein who had been leering at her all night stumbling back towards her station.<\/p>\n<p><em>Just kill me now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yes, sir. I\u2019ll fetch another.\u2019 She lifted the tray onto her aching arm and made to dart round him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hey,\u2019 he slurred, his green brows lowering over bloodshot eyes, and blocked her path. \u2018Don\u2019t go running off again, cutie pie.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Cutie pie? Seriously\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She stiffened when his palm caught her waist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Take your hand off me, sir.\u2019 She twisted away from him, her skin crawling and her temper igniting. She was cold, sore, jet-lagged and so over this guy and it wasn\u2019t even midnight. If he touched her again, he would regret it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Aw, come on. I\u2019m the CEO of Radisson Investments. Costa won\u2019t like it if you play hard to get\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But then his wandering hand cupped her backside. A red mist descended over her vision and the buzz in her ears became turbocharged. She knocked his hand away. \u2018Touch me again, Frankie, and you\u2019re a dead man.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein, though, was not listening, because his offending hand landed back on her bum.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that did it. Her fingers balled into a fist, and she socked him square in his green jaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ouch!\u2019 she bit out, pain ricocheting through her knuckles as he staggered backwards, knocking her tray of drinks up and drenching her.<\/p>\n<p>Heat charged into her cheeks as the previously oblivious guests nearby turned to stare. Swearing furiously and looking a lot more sober, Frankenstein staggered back towards her, testing his jaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m gonna sue you to within an inch of your life. I think you\u2019ve cracked one of my implants.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She lifted her fists in front of her. \u2018Touch me again and I\u2019ll do more than crack an implant.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But as Frankenstein approached, and she went to swing at him, something hard banded around her waist and yanked her back against a solid wall of muscle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Chill out, Pixie girl,\u2019 a gruff voice whispered in her ear. \u2018Believe me, he\u2019s not worth it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She sucked in a breath to protest, shivers streaking down her spine at the feel of the forearm pressed intimately against her literally heaving bosoms. But then the same voice growled at Frankenstein. \u2018Get out, Brad, and don\u2019t come back.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But she punched me!\u2019 Frankenstein whined.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You want me to punch you, too?\u2019 the voice asked, the calm conversational tone belying the steel beneath\u2014which sent another irritating shiver through Ellie\u2019s overwrought body.<\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein held up his hands. \u2018No, man, I\u2019m good.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Before you go, you can apologise to the lady,\u2019 the voice added, his warm arm flexing against her midriff. She found herself holding onto him, her legs turning into wet noodles as the adrenaline rush of the fight drained.<\/p>\n<p>A sea of ghoulish, witchy, devilish faces surrounded them\u2014some giggling, some taking photos with their phones and all of them openly enjoying the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Frankie\u2019s disgruntled gaze dropped to her face. \u2018Sorry.\u2019 He ground out the word, before pushing through the throng of party guests to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Show\u2019s over, folks,\u2019 Mr Forearm announced, which did nothing to dispel the crowd. But then his forearm released its hold on her. As soon as her legs took her weight, they buckled.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hey?\u2019 Warm palms landed on her waist, preventing her from falling over as he turned her towards him.<\/p>\n<p>She had to look way up to see his face.<\/p>\n<p>Her head swam, the underside of her breasts burning where he\u2019d touched them, as she took in the fierce features, the jet-black hair combed back to reveal a widow\u2019s peak, the white silk shirt, severe black cloak, and the blood dripping from one of the fangs peeking out from impossibly sensual lips.<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve just been saved by a six-foot four-inch vampire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dracula?\u2019 she murmured.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At your service,\u2019 he said, the sensual lips quirking. The fangs sparkled, and she imagined them sinking into her neck and sucking the last of the blood out of her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can you stand on your own?\u2019 he asked, the concern in his voice belied somewhat by the heat lighting the gold shards in his hazelnut eyes.<\/p>\n<p><em>No<\/em>. \u2018Yes,\u2019 she said. But then she shivered.<\/p>\n<p>His searing gaze dipped to the bodice of her costume. \u2018You\u2019re soaking wet.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019d be F-Frankenstein\u2019s fault,\u2019 she stammered.<\/p>\n<p>His lips curved in a loaded smile that sent the jumping beans in her stomach into overdrive. What was with that?<\/p>\n<p>This situation was catastrophic. Not giddily exciting. People were still staring. She looked an absolute fright\u2014and felt worse. She was probably going to get sued by Frankenstein, and, as she spotted Carly hurtling towards them at speed, about to be unemployed. 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