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?’

swallowed Javier’s lies.’ Her eyes pierced right through him. ‘I should have known not to trust the word of a

all men are

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

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

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,

will never humiliate you or disrespect you.’ He rose from his seat, ignoring the throbbing pain across the front of his face, and crouched on his haunches before her. Placing a hand on her

body responded, his groin tightening as memories of burying himself inside her

do not believe anything else, believe that that means something to me. I will take my

said the same thing

and inhaled

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

a moment she lost her train of thought, suddenly pulled back to

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