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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.

dabbed some perfume behind her ear and onto her wrists and left the privacy of the bathroom. It

CHAPTER TEN

EMERGED from the bathroom and closed the door softly behind her, the only sound Christian could hear was

shedding his clothes in front

didn’t know what it could be

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

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,

to him until she reached

hear the thickness in the timbre of

but a knowing smile pulled at her lips. She tugged at the sash of her robe

gaze away if he’d wanted

He didn’t want to.

this moment so he could replay

he remembered, the white of her lacy

swollen, the bra pushing them up to display her cleavage, only just

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