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“The guilt of uilt you feel when I look at you with adoring eyes, the guilt of hiding the fact that you only asked me to marry you because I come with a hefty stock option in Vito Automobiles”

She thought he would explode with anger But his silence only confiruilt It skewered the last ray of hope she had nourished that there would be a different explanation, that there could be another reason

Soeous, powerful eeky, shy nobodies like her

And now she was pathetically self-pitying too

“Pia, I was attracted to you fronation in his voice delivered the final crack against her heart He wasn’t even denying her allegation

“According to your mother, you attract more than half the female population in Milan, if not Italy But I don’t think you’d considerthem all”

“No I admit that when Gio proposed it—”

“Of course Nonno talked you into it” She banged her head into the door behind her The urge to do violence instantly died when her head pounded

“Diolike a child!”

“When have you or Gio treated h levels of confidence in myself Clearly, he knew that it was a facade Was it the stock that worked finally? Or was it the fact that with the stock in hand, as the uncontested CEO of VA, you’ve reached heights that your father never could You could prove to yourself and the world that you’re not him That you could never be weak like him Have you sold yourself to Gio just to prove that you’re incapable of loving, Raphael?”

Raphael pushed up to his feet with an athletic grace she loved and hated and pulled her up with hied her there with his body The scent of their intimacy was still thick in the air, a potentGio sought to do was to protect you…”

“From the likes of Frank, si? Because I’ue, like I fell for you, si? I get it He could have just tied up the stock in your name, couldn’t he? He could have told me not to fall for anyone because it is only the Vito fortune that is valuable about me”