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?’

that I swallowed Javier’s lies.’ Her eyes pierced right through him. ‘I

all men are

She continued staring at him with the same piercing

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

brother, all the men 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 and Rocco had the humiliation of

throbbing pain across the front of his face, and crouched on his haunches before her. Placing a hand on her

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

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

the same thing

swore and inhaled

close

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

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