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‘I aet each other out of our syste that was to have a relationship, allow this overpowering mutual lust to burn itself out…’

Need? Lust? The words which she kneould have thrilled most women to death when applied to Alessandro dropped like poison into her consciousness

While she had been blissfully toying withup in an e and then faded away He had allowed her the illusion of pretending that there was more to what they had because he wanted to tire of her, and the only way he could do that was to have her until he no longer wanted her

‘You’ve said enough’ She forced her wooden body to o upstairs and get my stuff now’ She reached for the ludicrously expensive jewellery adorning her and carefully removed it ‘You can have this back’

‘Don’t be ridiculous’ A dark flush highlighted his sharp, arrogant cheekbones ‘What the hell a to do omen’s jewellery?’

‘I don’t know and I don’t care’ Since he washim back, she casually dropped it on one of the side tables in the rooive it to your next conquest Most wo’

Alessandro watched her exit the roo to follow her He had a positive dislike of de than a woman who laid her cards on the table and threatened a walk-out unless her conditions were met?

He hadn’t been lying when he had told her that he’d needed to get her out of his system Whether she wanted to be realistic or not, he also hadn’t been lying when he had told her that the same applied to her If she wanted to ditch what they had, then so be it

He decided that it just proved beyond the shadow of a doubt how much of a liability a wos She stridently made her opinions felt, even if she could see the opposition all around her Did he need a woood the sex was?

He was assailed by a host of conflicting emotions, but when he tried to pin the above his There was a part of hioing to fall victi was his sense of pride, and with pride caut-deep certainty that this was a narrow escape