* * *

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.

onto her wrists and left the privacy of the bathroom. It was time

CHAPTER TEN

behind her, the only sound Christian could hear

his clothes in front of the mirror,

it could be

The desire he felt for

But something had changed.

sheets draped across his lap, a dim light glowing. And she was here with him, her dress removed, only a white robe covering

she stepped to him

He could hear the

She tugged at the sash of

his gaze away if he’d

He didn’t want to.

this moment so he

he remembered, the white of her lacy lingerie contrasting

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

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