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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

CHAPTER TEN

door softly behind her, the only sound

naked, shedding his clothes in front of the mirror,

didn’t know what it could be but he

same. The desire he felt 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

to him until she reached

He could hear the

lips. She tugged at the sash of her robe and parted it, letting it drop

torn his gaze away if

He didn’t want to.

capture this moment so

remembered, the white of her lacy lingerie contrasting against the

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

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