Spotlight & Giveaway: Resisting The Bossy Billionaire by Michelle Smart

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Michelle Smart’s new release: Resisting The Bossy Billionaire

A forced proximity, annoyance-to-lovers, billionaire boss, there was only one bed… romance by Michelle Smart.

Snowed in with her boss… and their forbidden desire!

Executive assistant Victoria Cusack is done with demanding billionaire Marcello Guardiola. After a predawn summons to his Manhattan apartment, she quits—only to get trapped by a snowstorm! But stranded with the man who’s no longer her boss, it’s easy to forget he was once off-limits…

Marcello has always prioritized his career—especially since a devastating loss—and he demands the same of Victoria. Unaccustomed to hearing “no,” he vows to charm her back to work. But their scorching chemistry leads to a very different kind of snowbound seduction…

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Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Resisting The Bossy Billionaire 

“The deli can’t deliver.’
Assuming she was joking, he laughed.
Not smiling, she held her phone up so he could read the message for himself.
‘Staff shortage due to inclement weather? What does that mean?’
‘It means you should look out of a window.’
‘I know what it means but what I want to know is why it should affect my bagel delivery. I am on the same block. Message back and tell them to get someone to walk it over.’
An eyebrow a browner shade than her hair arched. ‘It says, quite clearly, that they don’t have the staff.’
‘Then call the concierge.’
A sharp rise and fall of her shoulders and then she did as he asked whilst simultaneously adding coffee beans to the machine. It was a short conversation.
‘The on-duty concierge is waiting for more staff to arrive,’ she told him. ‘They should be in a position to send someone out for you within the hour.’
That long? Marcello wanted his bagel now, not in an hour. What was wrong with the world that a bit of snow should cause such inconvenience?
‘The coffee is prepared, it just needs to drip through,’ she added. ‘When the red light turns green, it will be ready to pour.’
‘Great, then you can go and get me a bagel.’
The steel from earlier returned to her eyes. ‘No, Marcello, now I go home.’
‘But I am hungry. It will take you five minutes.’
‘Ten in this weather. It’s my day off and I’ve got plans.’
‘If the weather is as bad as you keep whining about, your plans will have been cancelled.’
Her eyes widened. After a beat, she said, ‘Whining?’
‘Winter in Manhattan means bad weather,’ he explained. ‘You need to toughen up.’
While he waited patiently—and people thought he didn’t have patience? Such a misconception!—for her to display some remorse and do as he’d requested, Victoria’s now narrowed eyes did not leave his face. It was a long moment before he realised that mutiny rather than remorse had settled in them, a mutiny carried through to the lifting of her chin and the sucking in of her cheeks. ‘I tell you what, why don’t you toughen up? You’re not an invalid. You’ve got a pair of legs. If the weather out there’s as tropical as you seem to think it is, then go and get your own damned bagel. I’m going home.’
To his astonishment, Victoria finished her tempered outburst by striding across the kitchen, her long red hair swishing behind her.
Incredulous, he took a few beats to realise she was being serious.
‘Do I have to remind you the home you refer to comes courtesy of your job for me?’ he called out.
‘A job that this is my first day off from in eighteen days,’ she retorted without looking back.
He strode after her. ‘You think I take days off?’
She stepped through the door. ‘I am your employee. I have a contract that affords me rights.’
The door almost closed in his face. Almost as put out at her failure to hold it open for him as he was by this bolshy attitude, which, even by Victoria’s standards, went beyond minor insubordination, Marcello decided it was time to remind her who the actual boss was and of her obligations to him.
‘You cannot say you were not warned of what the job entailed when you agreed to take it,’ he said when he caught up with her in the living room. She was already at the door that would take her through to the reception room. ‘It is why you are given such a handsome salary and generous perks.’
Instead of going through the door, she came to a stop and turned back round, folding her arms across her breasts. ‘Quite honestly, Marcello, the way I’m feeling right now, I’d give the whole lot up for one lie-in. One lousy lie-in. That’s all I wanted but you couldn’t even afford me that, could you? I tell you what, stuff your handsome salary and generous perks—I quit.”

Excerpt. ©Michelle Smart. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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Meet the Author:

Michelle Smart is a Publishers Weekly bestselling romance author with a slight-to-severe coffee addiction. With over four million copies of her books sold worldwide, Michelle is now embracing the indie book world to write the passionate romance books she knows her readers love whilst continuing to write for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She is also the author of Butterflies, a standalone romantic and humorous time travel novel set in the 1990s.

A bookworm since birth, Michelle can usually be found hiding behind a paperback, or if it’s an author she really loves, a hardback.

Visit her at www.michellesmart.co.uk
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