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‘What’s the alternative? For you to stay here in Milan to face the press on your own? You wanted ive it to you’

‘Why do I need to leave? Why can’t you stay here?’

‘I need to be in Athens I have i up this week’

‘Are you saying your co, he gripped hold of histhe urge to punch him in the face just as her brother had done

Such passion

On the surface, Alessandra Mondelli was the epitome of cool sophistication Scratch beneath it and the passionate, sultry wo fro he was the only man to have experienced that passion made his chest fill

Her passion was his All his

One day, soon, he would sate hiain He knew it and she knew it too; he could see it in the way the pupils of her eyes dilated when their gazes ainst each other

She still wanted hiainnuptials taste sweeter

She would be his again

For now, though, all thoughts of iven his word not toand he intended to keep it

‘In the future ill arrange our schedules to accoations, but in this instance I’m afraid my commitments are more important than yours’

One of Greece’s major banks—one that had weathered the worst of the financial crisis—had been plunged into serious financial trouble and had called on Christian for help and advice So ; it was like a constant pain in his chest He’d been there once: iladly