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?’
respect that I swallowed Javier’s lies.’ Her eyes pierced right through him. ‘I should have known not to trust
all men
She continued staring at him with the
‘No!’ he said forcefully.
I’ve ever known have been liars. Trusting Javier cost me 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
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
touch of her softness, one inhalation of her scent and his body responded, his groin tightening as memories
my wife.’ He spoke the words slowly. ‘If you do not
the same thing to his
and inhaled
the intensity of his stare, close enough for his oaky, masculine
pressed against her neck, heating her skin. For a moment she lost her train of thought, suddenly pulled
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