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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.

perfume behind her ear and onto her wrists and left the privacy of the bathroom. It was time to see her husband as

CHAPTER TEN

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

stripped naked, shedding his clothes in front of the mirror, staring closely at

what it could be but he felt

felt for his

But something had changed.

draped across his lap, a dim

him until she reached his

your robe off.’ He could hear the thickness in the timbre of his

knowing smile pulled at her lips. She tugged at the sash

torn his gaze

He didn’t want to.

to capture this moment so he could replay

beautiful than he remembered, the white of her lacy lingerie contrasting

bra pushing them up to display her cleavage, only just hiding the dusky nipples he remembered so

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