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Sharing even silence with Pia onderful

They had ended the night, because she had a test early in the , with a soft kiss that had left him with blue balls But also with a thread of quiet, incandescent joy he’d never known before

Another tih her class, and then made him model for her first face carved from wood, because as she had put it, he had classically handsoant chin that would lend itself to that particular type of wood

He had sat still for almost an hour while theinto giggles when he’d asked her to show him what she had so far

“Mi dispiace, Raphael I’m so bad at this, I’ve hter “I’ll ask Antonio to sit for me next time” Of course he had said no, to which she had responded by crawling to hiers over his nose, temple and then over his lips She had then taken histeeth and all, that Raphael had been harder than the block of wood, and said, “I can’t bear to ruin this gorgeous face, Raphael”

Since he was busy ork and Allegra’s custody suit, and she was busy studying and carving and e one o evenings spent together holed up in Gio’s study, which he had been far too happy to give up

While Raphael had spread out his paperwork on the vast any desk, Pia had settled her textbooks around the sitting area It was the ht of Pia with her glasses perched on her nose, studious concentration furrowing her brow, had driven him half-crazy

The thought of spending the next fifty years in such close quarters with her was surprisingly exciting He iaze on hi in co awareness; the absolute knowledge that it wouldn’t rew another billion or not, or if he lost most of it with some bad decisions like his father The trust that she would never stop looking at him as if he were the most perfect man she had ever met—it filled hio

Locking the door against any servants, uncaring that he was dishonoring her under Gio’s roof, he had crossed the rooht braid she had forced it into and drunk greedily fro mouth

He’d meant to keep his word He’d ive her the time she’d asked for And yet, her responsiveskirt she had worn that day, and then kissing his way up the silky skin of her thighs, all the way to the damp center of her sex

He had tasted her desire for hi and ainst his ainst hisher teeth into his lower lip The h hi

Cheeks pink, breath serrated, hair in wild disarray and her eyes, those wide, deep brown eyes glittering with an eive a na he had ever seen

Fingers sinking in his hair, she had guided his mouth down to hers for a quick press “I didn’t know I could feel so much pleasure that I could happily die from it”

“You’re not dying until I have punished you for your no-sex rule,” he’d said, sinking his teeth into the rough cushion of her palm

“Poor Raphael, it has been, what? Three weeks?”

A soft flick at the center of her pal when combusted, she immediately slithered in his lap “Five weeks and four days, you minx”

She had crawled to her knees, stroked her pal pink and with the rin said, “Raphael, can I…?”