* * *

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 his

CHAPTER TEN

behind her, the only sound Christian

front of the mirror,

didn’t know what it could be

he felt for his beautiful

But something had changed.

sat in the huge bed, leant back against the headboard, the bed sheets draped across his lap, a dim light glowing. And she was here with

him until she reached

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

lips. She tugged at

have torn his gaze away if he’d

He didn’t want to.

moment so he

more beautiful than he remembered, the white of

her cleavage, only just hiding the dusky nipples

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