She waited a few moments before knocking again, louder.

Unless Christian had left without telling anyone, he was in there. The dim light seeping under the door testified to this. She’d casually asked Stefan and Zayed where their fellow musketeer had escaped to. She could only hope she’d imagined the suspicious but pitying look in Stefan’s eyes when he’d told her Christian had gone to bed.

Please, God, let him be alone in there.

What were the chances?

She’d been nothing special, just another notch on a bedpost crammed with notches.

Christian Markos travelled with a trail of broken hearts attached to him ranging from Hong Kong to London. Some sold their stories to the tabloids, tales of short-lived lust before being discarded. Some spoke with bitterness. Most spoke with longing. Most wanted him to break their hearts all over again.

It took an age before the handle turned and the door opened.

Christian stood clad in a pair of jeans. And nothing else.

He blinked narrowing eyes. ‘What are you doing here?’

to talk to

throat rose. ‘That’s not

‘It’s important.’

clamped together. He shifted past her, looking

bed was rumpled; a tablet was on the bedside table next to a half-full bottle of bourbon and an

conversation she

heavy curtains. ‘Believe me, I’ve been

a position to

It would make what was coming next easier to cope with, of that she was certain. ‘Rocco and Liv looked

happiness had had the dual effect of making her heart lighten for her brother’s sake

She hadn’t really had the opportunity to study his torso in her apartment, and now she could look at it properly she felt the

had honed his physique, his form strong and athletic, his shoulders broad. Fine hair dusted across his bronzed chest and she felt an almost unbearable compulsion to hurtle herself into his arms and take

an experience she would never forget. The single best experience

to expel the memories from her head, they’d stayed with her, tantalising her, taunting her with the

his smooth skin flush against her nakedness

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