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He was good at staring though, she recalled abstractedly, suddenly thrown back to their firsther to And all Arianna’s inti brother had seemed to do was stare at her, eyes as dark as jet between thick black lashes Eyes that were set in an extravagantly handsoolden cara

Yes, there had been very little nor-to-know-you conversation over that fa left to pick up the slack and usually sharp Vivi finding her tongue inexplicably glued to the roof of her mouth for the first time in her life And what had she done? While Arianna had blithely chattered, Vivi had stared back, fascinated by Raffaele in the strangest way, little arrows of heat darting through her as she’d noticed new and seele of his black brows; the th of his jaw line; the olive-toned planes and hollows of his fabulous bone structure; the classic arch of his nose and the wildly sensual curve of his sculpted lips She had noted his perfect ant hands and the fluidhi, seduced by the new energising excitee of adrenalin

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Across London, Raffaele cast down his phone and moved without hesitation on to Plan B Vivi wouldn’t speak to him Well, he had to admit that that was a surprise but he had to find a way to make her deal with him If civil and calm didn’t work as an approach, he would take a leaf out of her grandfather’s book and try heavy duty persuasion And if that didn’t work out either, he would work right through the alphabet in plans until he found the ic combination to make Vivi do what he needed her to do for Arianna’s benefit

Raffaele had a rare sleepless night, spent re his dismay at his stepmother’s sudden death from an overdose when he was only twenty and still a student Her passing, mere months after his father’s demise, had i or preparation, he had found hiirl, a twelve-year-old girl he had barely bothered to even get to knowhis half-sister Yet he had grown to love Arianna and care for her in a way he had never deemed possible, for he knew his own flaws and accepted that he was essentially cold and analytical in nature

Lying awake in the dark hours, however, he had discovered that he couldn’t suddenly switch off that deep need to protect his vulnerable sister froh no fault of her own Arianna harmed herself, never anybody else So, he would do whatever it took to protect her from the fallout of that unfortunate friendship with Vivi two years earlierand Vivi?

Well, devious, sexy little Vivi was si to have to bite the bullet and pay her dues on Arianna’s behalf

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