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She gave another little sigh She had nothing to be sad about, she knew Tonight had beenwith every otherhi she would never have more of him than she had now He was not for her, nor she for him, however beautiful he made her feel…

‘That, I should inforerous position for you to be in’

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE deep voice behind her was a drawl, shot with hu back and straightening up, turning towards him

‘I…I won’t fall out,’ she protested

Rafaello sauntered towards her, hands in his trouser pockets He h the previously locked adjoining door Though he still wore his tuxedo jacket he had loosened his tie, and it hung on either side of his undone top shirt button Magda felt her insides turn over

‘That was not the danger I referred to,’ he corrected her ‘It was this’

He closed in on her A hand slid around her back and spanned her derrière

‘It was projecting far too tely,’ he murmured down at her

There was a light in his eye that ain

‘Rafaello—’ she gasped faintly, trying to draay fro pressure on her rear increase As if unwilling to tolerate her escape, he si his hand upwards into the s his other hand beneath the cloud of her hair to hold the nape of her neck

She had no breath in her No breath to speak, to protest, to exclaim—or even to breathe

Rafaello smiled down into her face

‘There is only one way,’ he told her softly, ‘to end an evening like this’

His head lowered to hers, and closed over her breathlessly parted lips

He started to kiss her

It had happened so suddenly she had had no ti Oneout of theinto the Tuscan night, thinking the evening was over, and the next Rafaello had closed in on her and waslove to her