‘So we are in agreement?’
‘Yes. We are in agreement. I will marry you.’
It was Christian’s turn to exhale. Who would have thought he would feel relief to hear a woman agree to marriage?
‘It would be best to marry as soon as we can—before you start showing.’
‘I don’t want to arrange anything until I’ve spoken to Rocco.’
The mention of her brother’s name hit him like a blow: the metaphorical elephant in the room spoken aloud.
‘We will speak to him together.’
‘It will be best if I speak to him alone. He’s my brother.’
of my closest friends. He’s not going to be happy about
but
he returns from his honeymoon,’ Christian decided, although his guts made that familiar clenching motion they did whenever he
would never
He didn’t blame him.
his way, he would take.
the first time he’d met Rocco, Stefan and Zayed during his first week at Columbia. He’d never left Athens before that, never mind Greece. New York had been a whole new world. He’d felt out of his depth on every level, especially when comparing himself to his new friends’ wealth and good breeding. He’d had neither and hadn’t been able to understand why they’d accepted him as one
now, a decade on when his own wealth rivalled the best in the world, he still struggled to understand
rat without a penny to his name. She was Alessandra Mondelli, born into one of Italy’s
world she would marry someone from a
disparate backgrounds but on marriage they had common ground: relationships were not for either of them. In that one
he would never need
would never infect their
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