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And for Gaetano, whose aggressive need to doed in the nursery when he had syste him do prettyto a bull Totally unaware of anything beyond the overwhel her to do what he wanted her to do, Gaetano snapped an arm round her and kissed her

His mouth slammed down on hers and it was as if the world stopped dead and then closed round that e with hiether, refusing hiainst her, all lean, sinuous, powerful ainst her stoh her like a dangerous drug The heat and strength of hi and she uncla hunger that had captured her and destroyed her opposition

With a hungry groan, his tongue eased into herinstant of sensation she had ever experienced as his tongue teased and tangled with hers before plunging deep An ache she had never felt in a man’s arms before hollowed al instinctively against hiainst the car, so that they elded together so tight a card couldn’t have slid between the up over his wide shoulders before sliding up to lace into his luxuriant black hair and then raking down again over his muscled arms to spread across his taut masculine ass It was a mindless, addictive, totally visceral embrace

In an abruptaudible, sawing in and out of his big chest as if he had run a marathon Poppy was all over the placeto return to the real world while fighting a shocking desire to yank hi she was ready to spontaneously coht not have an ounce of charm but when it came to the sex stuff he was out at the front of the field, she decided, a burning blush waret her breath back

‘Wellthat was interesting,’ she re that ained control when she had not

Gaetano, who never, ever did PDAs o as if a little Martian had taken his place In short, Gaetano was in shock but he also knew that if he had been parked somewhere private he would have had Poppy spread across the bonnet while he plunged into her lithe body hard and fast and sated the appalling level of hunger coursing through his lower body He ached; he ached so bad he wanted to groan out loud Dark colour etched the line of his high cheekbones

‘Let’s go inside,’ he suggested in a driven undertone ‘Just take your lead from me, bella mia’

And won’t doing exactly as Gaetano tells you be fun? a little devil enquired inside Poppy’s be, she would have been queuing up, she conceded numbly Nobody had ever made her feel so much with one kiss In fact she hadn’t known it was even possible to be that turned on by a man after just one kiss Gaetano had hidden depths, dark, sexy depths, but she had not the s those depths

CHAPTER FOUR

‘I SAW YOU ARRIVE,’ Rodolfo Leonetti volunteered, disconcerting his grandson ‘It looked as though you were having words’

Poppy alh her like a tidal wave Gaetano’s grandfather didn’t look his age With his head of wavy grey hair and the upright stature of a ht not far short of Gaetano’s, he still looked strong and vital He greeted her with a kiss on both cheeks and s comment on Gaetano

‘We were having a row,’ Poppy was taken aback to hear Gaetano ad Perhaps I should have taken her with me to choose it’

Rodolfo widened his shrewd dark eyes ‘My grandson left you out of that selection?’

Pink and flustered by the speed hich Gaetano plotted and reacted in a tight corner, Poppy said, ‘I’m afraid so’ In an uncertain move

‘You could see that diaht-faced

‘It’s beautiful,’ Poppy hastened to add

‘Be honest, you hate it,’ Gaetano encouraged, having told the story, clearly happy to go with the flow