‘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.’

He’s not going

blessing but if he refuses...’ She sighed, a

will wait until he returns from his honeymoon,’ Christian decided, although his guts made that familiar clenching motion they did whenever

would never

He didn’t blame him.

was thrown his way, he would take. It would be no less

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

decade on when his own wealth rivalled the best in the world, he still

without a penny to his name. She was Alessandra Mondelli, born into one of Italy’s premiere families. She had class and breeding. She could be a

a perfect world she would marry someone from a

be from disparate backgrounds but on marriage they had common ground: relationships were not for either of them. In

he would

would

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