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?’

I swallowed Javier’s lies.’ Her eyes pierced right through him. ‘I should have known not to

all men

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

‘No!’ he said forcefully.

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

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

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

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

the same thing to

and inhaled

the intensity of his stare, close enough for his oaky, masculine scent to

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

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