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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.

some perfume behind her ear and onto her wrists and left the privacy of the

CHAPTER TEN

ALESSANDRA EMERGED from the bathroom 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

what it could be but

the same. The desire he felt for his beautiful bride still burned deep

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, her dress removed, only a

to him

off.’ He could hear the thickness

trembled, but a knowing smile pulled at her lips. She tugged at the sash of her robe and parted

his gaze away if he’d wanted

He didn’t want to.

wanted to capture this moment so he

she was more beautiful than he remembered, the white of her lacy lingerie contrasting against

them up to display her

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