He’d no longer been the skinny, bookish kid and the bullies had known it. After one particular fight, when he’d broken the nose of the ringleader and blackened the eyes of two others, they’d left him alone.

He hadn’t wanted to hit anyone since then. Until now.

How could anyone call Alessandra a slut?

‘Too many to name.’ She answered his question with a shrug.

‘How could they say such things? You were a child.’

‘I was seventeen. Old enough to know better.’

‘Do not tell me you blame yourself?’

Javier’s lies.’ Her eyes pierced right through

all men

didn’t elaborate. She continued staring at him with the same piercing

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

everything. My grandfather turned into my jailer, the few friends he’d permitted me to have turned their backs on me because their parents didn’t want me corrupting them and Rocco had the humiliation of reading untrue, lewd comments about his baby sister. I’m sorry,

you or disrespect you.’ He rose from his seat, ignoring the throbbing pain across the front of his

scent and his body responded, his groin tightening as memories of burying

be my wife.’ He spoke the words slowly. ‘If you do not believe anything else, believe that that

said the same

and inhaled

leant forward, matching the intensity of his stare, close enough for his

neck, heating her skin. For a moment she lost her train of thought, suddenly pulled back

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