They were home.

In silence they entered the villa. The live-in staff had long since retired to their own quarters for the night.

Tiny nightlights glowed from the reception through to the living area and up the stairs, bathing Alessandra in a dim light that magnified her sultry beauty.

The ache in his groin, far from diminishing as he’d valiantly willed it to do in the car, increased, his arousal spreading from his loins...

That damn bare arm...

She paused at the bottom of the staircase to look at him. ‘Thank you for a nice evening–’

‘You have enjoyed yourself?’ he cut in, delaying the time she would climb the stairs and head to her room.

‘I wouldn’t go that far,’ she answered with a wry smile. ‘It was hardly a night of music and dancing but it was a lot less stuffy than I expected.’

you feeling uncomfortable when

away. ‘Well,

return, fighting to keep his feet from crossing the marble floor to

rail, she climbed the stairs and crossed the landing to her bedroom. Only when she reached her door did she turn

her room, closing the

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

her neck. ‘You can

past three days working on a shoot for a well-known lingerie brand. With a waist that seemed to be thickening by the day, spending days with semi-clad underwear models was not doing a great deal for her ego. Her pregnancy

pulled her phone out, her heart skipping to see Christian’s name flash up. She

How long are you going

off a

of hours. Meet

he’d called after the embassy do a month ago, her hands had gone clammy just to see his name flash up in the screen. She’d stared at it until it had gone to voicemail, wiped her hands and written a quick

skinny model, who’d changed into another lacy number with the help of an

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