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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.

her wrists and left the privacy of the

CHAPTER TEN

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

shedding his clothes in front

what it could be but

The desire he felt for his beautiful bride still burned

But something had changed.

leant back against the headboard, the bed sheets draped across his lap, a dim light glowing. And she was here with him, her dress removed, only

to him until she

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

at her lips. She tugged at the

couldn’t have torn his gaze away if he’d wanted

He didn’t want to.

capture this moment so he could

he remembered, the white of her

to display her cleavage, only just hiding the dusky nipples he

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