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If only she hadn’t nestled into his neck with her face If only she hadn’t pressed herhis name at the same time

His heart iht, then flowered open, e in

His groan was the groan of defeat Or was it resignation?

He could keep telling hi his actions with Bella; and this was true to a degree But Sergio could no longer pretend that his emotions hadn’t become involved as well Was it love yet? He hoped not He’d never actually fallen in love before so he had nothing to guide hi under his skin in more ways than just sexual Which was most unfortunate Bella didn’t want him to fall in love with her, and he sure as hell didn’t want to fall in love with her Once their holiday fling was over, she would return to her life on the other side of the world, with this interlude just a pleasant memory Their friendship—even with benefits—would not survive She’d get sucked back into her career and that would be that She wouldn’t give hiht, the way she hadn’t when their parents had divorced all those years ago It had been bad enough lusting after her from afar He didn’t want to love her from afar as well

Sergio decided then and there to make sure that didn’t happen

So get your butt out of this bed, Sergio, he told himself firood at it, that’s the trouble All these fabulous cli with your eet her out of your systeic should have told you that once you had Bella in your bed, you’d be in danger of beco even more obsessed with her

It took a supreio to extricate himself from under her body, especially when sheto hih her eyelids fluttered open when he pulled the sheet up over her

‘Don’t leave ed softly

God, but she was the very devil; a siren calling him to sure disaster

He had to get out of here And now!

‘Go to sleep, Bella,’ he coht And quite frankly, so have I’

So saying, he whirled round and strode froli shot!

His self-lecturing didn’t stop after he returned to thecold shower he forced himself to endure

‘No sex toioerection into retreat ‘Thankfully, Maria will be here for a few hours during the day That should stopwith Bella in the pool, then sweeping her off to the ’

Unfortunately, both ideas projected arousing iined their indulging in lots of oral foreplay in the pool and its surrounds Maybe he’d even let her go all the ith that delicious ood at that Once he came that way, he’d be able to take his ti the better of hies Maybe even bind her to the bedposts Would she let him do that? he wondered Possibly not yet But soon, she would He was sure of it She—

Sergio abruptly pulled hi plans for seducing Bella further? He was supposed to be working out how to reduce the amount of sex between them, not increase it

He shook his head at hi in his power to take control of the situation Soht, and only under the pretext of helping theio, you’re not going to be able to sleep till you’ve had her again But sex during the day is si addicted to her Or worse!

By the tied from the shower, he had his body and his mind under control He also had a plan to survive the nextOf course, having a plan and putting it into action were sos entirely It also wouldn’t help that he would have Maria playing matchmaker the whole time Bella was here Thank God he’d accepted that invitation to go to dinner at Claudia’s toht That would take care of a few hours in the evening when tehest And thank God coitimately spend every weekday at the factory in Milan If truth be told, it was high ti out the faot deeply involved with that, being with Bella would lessen in importance