‘What’s the alternative? For you to stay here in Milan to face the press on your own? You wanted my support and I am trying to give it to you.’
‘Why do I need to leave? Why can’t you stay here?’
‘I need to be in Athens. I have important business commitments coming up this week.’
‘Are you saying your commitments are more important than mine?’
‘No.’ Swearing, he gripped hold of his mug. ‘Yes.’
Looking at her, he could see she was fighting the urge to punch him in the face just as her brother had done.
Such passion.
On the surface, Alessandra Mondelli was the epitome of cool sophistication. Scratch beneath it and the passionate, sultry woman emerged like a vibrant butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
man to have
passion was his. All
she knew it too; he could see it in the way the pupils of her eyes dilated when their gazes met, the
She still wanted him.
a bed again made his loins tighten and the dread of their forthcoming
would be
all thoughts of making love would have to wait. He’d given his word not to make a move on her until
our obligations, but in this instance I’m
called on Christian for help and advice. So many
‘That’s just...’
was an alternative she would dismiss out of hand. ‘You can stay at Villa Mondelli. The press won’t be able to touch you there, not
my brother? I would rather stay in a
press you hate so much, stay with the brother you’ve just disowned or come to Athens with me where the
‘Then I stay.’
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