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God, he was beautiful Long, thick eyelashes…sexy eyes…the curve of his mouth…

She snapped out of it and re friendly was all about It was conversing without edginess, and without dredging up past hurts and recriminations

She also reed to be married

‘She was probably just a little startled to see you there Did you have a delicious Christmas lunch?’ she asked

Alessandro shrugged ‘One superbthe lastanother Only the first ever really counted He looked at the heart-shaped face, the big, blue, al back at him, the full, kissable mouth

‘Oh, to be able to say that!’ She felt a slight shift in the ated her way off the stool ‘I really should be going now’

Caught up in the hts, Alessandro frowned

He didn’t want her to go

What the hell did that mean?

Cutting through all the reasons he had given hi her in the face of her obvious reluctance to see hiuilt factor…the altruistic concern for her welfare…the practicality of having a civilised relationship because they would h all that, like a dark undercurrent under the placid surface of a lake, lay the disturbing realisation that he still found her attractive, still found his eyes drifting along her body, re the exquisite sexual pleasure she had once afforded him

Where did that leave Victoria?

He would have to talk to her He owed it to both of the

When, as she approached the front door, she turned around and said politely that, at the risk of repeating herself, she probably wouldn’t be seeing hiood life—whatever the hell that reement

That briefof easy co fast She could see it in his eyes She wasn’t sure what she had interrupted—work, probably—but he was eager to have her gone now, so that he could get back to whatever he had been doing

She had wondered whether she had never been obedient enough Now she suspected that she had just been tiresos could take her

She gabbled so