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Alessandra applied a touch more lipstick then tightened the sash of her silk white robe.

Who needed alcohol?

Desire pulsed through her, making her pulses race uncontrollably.

She hadn’t expected that a ring on her finger and a signed piece of paper could make her feel so different but it did.

Christian was the only man she’d ever truly wanted.

She remembered the first time she’d met him, when she’d been twelve and Rocco had brought the Brat Pack to Lake Como for a break. How young and naïve she’d been, still believing in love and romance. She’d taken one look at Adonis and her heart had skipped into her mouth.

He’d hardly noticed her existence.

Looking back with the benefit of hindsight on her ill-fated tryst with Javier, she could see it was the flattery she’d responded to, not him. She’d swallowed all his lies because she’d been flattered a man, not an immature boy, was showing an interest in her.

With Christian, it was the man himself she responded to.

the privacy of the bathroom. It was time to see

CHAPTER TEN

softly behind her, the only sound Christian could hear was his own heartbeat. Drumming. Thundering in

shedding his clothes in front of

could be

for his beautiful bride still burned

But something had changed.

against the headboard, the bed sheets draped across his lap, a dim light glowing. And she

him until

could hear the thickness in

tugged at the sash of

torn his gaze away

He didn’t want to.

wanted to capture this moment so he

was more beautiful than he remembered, the white of her lacy

bra pushing them up to display her

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