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She sed Was he suggesting what she thought he was?

His lips brushed against her earlobe ‘Until we are legally ht together in Milan’

Her skin fizzed beneath the warmth of his breath while heat such as she had never experienced surged through her, settling in the V of her thighs He stepped closer still and placed a hand on her thigh, close enough that she could feel his erection jut through the cotton of his towel and press against her belly

She tilted her head back and gazed into his eyes It was there, that desire: stark, open, unashamed

What would he do if she were to loop her arms around his neck and kiss him? If she were to clasp his towel and yank it off hiainst her ear again ‘Anticipation makes fulfilment taste so much sweeter’

She pulled away ‘Do you know that froe look ca on his lips ‘Only in a professional sense I look forward to finding out if it’s as shen it coht you said it would depend on whether I wanted anything to happen,’ she said, her voice hoarse

‘And it will’ Now his eyes glittered, nobehind the you crazy too’

While Alessandra stood there, unable to deny what he’d said, too full of the heavy, pulsating thickness swirling through the very fabric of her to think clearly, Christian strode into the bedroom of his suite

‘So, what did you want to seeher brain to unfog itself, she followed him to the door but stopped at her side of the threshold

She took a moment to compose herself, but that very coed back in vieearing a pair of black boxer shorts that only enhanced his strong physique

He opened his dressing-rooat her, he slipped his arms into a pale blue shirt ‘Alessandra?’

‘Sorry’ She put her hand to her uest list’

‘Everyone has accepted’