The Fling That Changed Everything. Alison Roberts

The Fling That Changed Everything - Alison Roberts


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       About the Author

      New Zealander ALISON ROBERTS has written more than eighty romance novels for Mills & Boon. She has also worked as a primary school teacher, a cardiology research technician and a paramedic. Currently, she is living her dream of living – and writing – in a gorgeous village in the south of France.

      The Fling That Changed Everything

      Alison Roberts

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      ISBN: 978-1-474-03729-7

      THE FLING THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

      © 2016 Alison Roberts

      Published in Great Britain 2020

      by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

      All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.

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       Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       CHAPTER THREE

       CHAPTER FOUR

       CHAPTER FIVE

       CHAPTER SIX

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER ONE

      THE SOUND OF the telephone ringing could barely be heard over the cacophony as the Roselli family gathered in their kitchen for dinner.

      It wasn’t a big room. If the whole family had been here, they would have had to use the huge, rustic table out in the courtyard, beneath the vine-smothered pergola, but it was raining today—the kind of tropical downpour that was familiar to people living in Northern Australia—and the vines weren’t enough protection from the wet.

      So, here they were, piling into the kitchen that was a long room, where Adriana Roselli presided over the benchtop and oven at one end and the scrubbed pine table that could fit ten people—if they squeezed up—filled the other end of the room. Fitting a wheelchair in made it a little more complicated, of course, and that was why the noise level was so high right now.

      ‘Ow... You ran over my foot, Fiona. Watch where you’re going.’

      ‘If you didn’t have your stupid ears full of your horrible music, you would have seen us coming. Move yourself, Guy.’

      ‘Not until you say you’re sorry. You’ve probably broken my toe.’

      ‘You’re the one who should apologise. Look, you’ve made Angel cry...’

      ‘Look out, all of you. If I drop this lasagne, you’ll all be sorry. Mamma mia...’ Adriana held a vast steaming tray over her head as her youngest son elbowed his way past her. ‘Why don’t my children ever grow up and act their ages? What have I ever done to deserve this? Lia, why isn’t the bread on the table?’

      ‘I’m coming... Oh, is that the phone?’

      It took a moment for the effect of her words to sink in. Adriana almost dropped the lasagne onto the centre of her table and then


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