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‘I don’t know’ Angelo paled and shifted fro as much as I wanted you…no woman, no deal, no prize ever exerted that much of a hold on me You’re in a class of your own,bellezzathat, for some weird reason, I found you very attractive too,’ Gwenna allowed, softening a little because he really did look miserable

‘But I didn’t treat you properly I was very stubborn I couldn’t understand why you couldn’t be happy hat other women had accepted But I didn’t want you to be like them—in fact I wanted you because you were different’ Gwenna finally grasped why he had sought her out again and her heart sank like a stone ‘You’re here to tell olden eyes collided with hers ‘But not sorry to have ret that I’m sorry I screwed up I’m sorry I kept the truth froht from the start I wanted you to love me and want me the way I believed you wanted Toby’ Tears burned the backs of her eyes and she blinked fiercely ‘I was lying when I said I thought about hih ‘Now she tells h hell’ ‘I couldn’t help it’ ‘You kept on duiveyou happy’ Gwenna studied him fixedly ‘Seriously?’ she enquired a tad shrilly, for she was very

Without batting an eyelash, Angelo got down gracefully on one knee ‘Will you marry me?’ Gwenna was so astonished that she couldn’t find her voice at first He was asking her toher to led to think of all the questions she should ask before co to a decision and then decided not to bother, because there was absolutely no doubt in herupright, surprised at the speed of her response but content not to question it ‘Does that ive me?’ ‘Not necessarily…but I willwith shock

‘Okay,’ Angelo pronounced, wondering if that dazed look was positive or negative, and then re what he had not yet said ‘I love you…I love you a lot,a he’d placed on her finger as he confessed his love, Gwenna lifted startled eyes to his lean, darkly handsome face ‘You don’t have to say that if you don’t ht both her hands in his Intense tawny eyes claient as his hold ‘I can’t sleep at night without you When you left Sardinia I thought my life was over I’ve been in love with you for weeks and weeks without realising it…I really need you to be with me…for ever ‘ Overwhelers and whispered fervently, ‘I love you too…’ ‘What about Toby?’ Angelo enquired with forced lightness of tone

‘I think I was just really scared of falling in love,’ she confessed with an erimace ‘It wrecked my mother’s life, and Dad has a dreadful track record Perhaps believing that I still loved Toby when I couldn’t have hielo checked, not quite sure what he was being told, but hauling her up against his hard, th just the same ‘Like,totally over him?’ ‘I love him as a friend…You know, I never did fancy him the way I fancied you’ Gwenna dropped that news in a self-conscious whisper ‘There’s times when I can’t wait to rip your clothes off’ ‘I know the feeling,aers skih the layers of her jacket and her T-shirt to find the smooth skin of her slender waist

Gloriously happy and quivering with the hot pulse of excitement that he always aroused, Gwenna wrapped her aretically

‘I’ her luscious pinkwith sensual satisfaction when she responded with the abandoned enthusiasest fan