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Gwenna rested her chin on his shoulder, absently drinking in the warm and already familiar scent of his skin ‘I wasn’t there when it happened but I used to drea-school—’ Angelo tensed ‘When was that?’ ‘I was ten when Dad first set up hohters Unfortunately, Penelope and Wanda didn’t take to me and, for the sake of peace, I was sent off to school I hated it’ ‘Why…were you bullied?’ ‘For waking the other girls up witha terrible cry-baby’ Gwenna winced in remembered shaelo reached behind hi arm and tipped her round and deftly forward into his lap ‘I was too, but I didn’t have a hoo to any enerous employer paid for my education at an exclusive school I didn’t fit in Sardinian lish, and I was a science geek and very small—’ Gwenna squinted up at his shadowy profile’ Small?’ she interrupted in disbelief

Angelo nodded ‘Tiny…I didn’t shoot up until I ell into my teens’ ‘Were you bullied too?’ ‘Of course not’ But Gwenna caught a certain intonation in his dark-tihed

‘Yes, you wereI can tell’ ‘How? With your crystal ball, bella ers explored beneath the shirt she wore and she shivered, her breath catching in her throat

He cupped a pouting breast and in coaxing its tender pink nipple to straining proasp from between her lips

‘Stop trying to distract me…’ she muttered breathlessly

Angelo swung her down onto the bed beside hi his hips into the soft cradle between her thighs to acquaint her with his thrusting hardness Scorching eyes scorned her reproachful scrutiny

‘Is that what I’?’ ‘But I want to know…Ireally want to knohat happened to you to make you sound so scared!’ she protested

His fabulous bone structure clenched hard and he was pale ‘I was burned with cigarettes, kicked where it most hurts and beaten up’ ‘Oh my word…’ She was overcolistened, aith elo…that’s awful And you still dream about it?’ ‘Sì…’Even as he wondered why the hell he had told her, Angelo was surveying her reaction in fascination

Gwenna struggled to fight off the tears of syulped, sed, sniffed and finally linked her ar of that bewildered and bright little boy, suddenly deprived of a loving ed into an alien environment

‘It ood forin a steadying breath of oxygen ‘I mean, I was just teased and scolded But you were brutalized—’ ‘Do you think I deserve a syelo enquired in silken interruption

Her clogged lashes lifted on troubled blue eyes ‘Sometimes you can be really offensive’ Almost imperceptible colour scored his superb cheekbones

‘And the answer is no…not because I’m annoyed with you but because—and I find this very eht now’ Grinding to a mortified halt as she referred to the fact that she was rather sore, she bit her lip and turned her face away

Angelo hadn’t thought of that possibility and guilt came out of nowhere and attacked hiht hours since she had been a virgin and he had been pretty de as well as passionate Either he had a cold shower or he introduced her to a h sex drive

‘I can be a selfish bastard,’ he reue that description

But it did not even occur to Gwenna to contradict him for a statement she considered accurate ‘Maybe we could…later’ ‘Later I’ll be in New York,caraher reluctantly fro her into his ar curve

Gwenna squinted at the face of the clock by the bed and gasped ‘My goodness, is that the tiently