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?’

through him. ‘I

all men are

elaborate. She continued staring at him

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

because their parents didn’t want me corrupting them and Rocco had

He rose from his seat, ignoring the throbbing pain across the front of his face, and crouched on his haunches before

one inhalation of her scent and his body responded, his groin

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

sure Javier said the same thing to

swore and

forward, matching the intensity of his stare, close enough

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

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