* * *

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.

and onto her wrists and left the privacy of the bathroom. It was time to see her husband as

CHAPTER TEN

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

shedding his clothes in front of the mirror, staring closely

it could be but

desire he felt for his beautiful

But something had changed.

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

him until she reached

hear the thickness in the timbre

She tugged at the sash of her robe and parted it, letting it drop to

couldn’t have torn his gaze away if

He didn’t want to.

capture this moment so

white of her

them up to display her cleavage,

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