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?’

right through him. ‘I should have known

all men

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

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

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, but I will never

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

body

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

the same thing to his

and

intensity of his stare, close enough

hand was still pressed against her neck, heating her skin. For a moment she lost her train of thought,

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