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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.

CHAPTER TEN

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

naked, shedding his clothes in front of

it could be

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

But something had changed.

the headboard, the bed sheets draped across his lap, a dim light glowing. And she was here

him until she reached his

could hear the thickness in the

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

have torn his gaze away if he’d

He didn’t want to.

capture this moment so he could

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

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

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