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He’d told her in a quiet, let’s-forget-last-night voice, ‘We’re going to Via Toledo in the city before heading to the family house’
‘Right I’ll be quick,’ she’d answered, not knohat Via Toledo was about, but seeing any part of Napoli was a bonus She’d never been there; the airport didn’t count
Now she asked into the uncomfortable silence that had fallen as Sorrento dropped behind them, ‘What’s on Via Toledo?’
‘Shops’
‘Mattia’ She hadn’tto visit his relatives, and tension was increasing inside her with every passingalong, not scrapping ‘What kind of shops?’
‘All kinds Especially clothing and shoes, and all the things women love’
‘You spilt red wine on your white skirt?’
He didn’t even laugh ‘You need so’
‘Oh, no, you don’t’ First he kept testing her to see what she was trying to get out of him, and then he’d decided to buy her a neardrobe A test or a gift she was supposed to accept with gratitude? Forget being the peacemaker ‘If I want clothes I’ll buy them’
‘It’sAimee across to meet me’
She gasped Never had she expected him to say that Never ‘Lo’
The car lurched sideways as Mattia aie, where he hauled on the brake and twisted in his seat to face her ‘I meant it’
‘All you had to do was say thank you’
Those dark eyes were fierce ‘I’m a man of feords, especially the important ones’
She had noticed ‘Yet you said theot mad at you’
A wry expression ca you tend to cause me to do too often’
She affected Mr Always in Control? Not likely ‘Save it—’ Gulp There really was a hint of re out, she touched his hand ‘Take me to Via Toledo I’d love soet around with so few choices ‘But I’ll pay for them’
A reluctant shtful mouth ‘Let me buy one outfit’
Would it be selfish to say yes? That look said not ‘All right’ A pair of shorts and a blouse wouldn’t be excessive
Except she hadn’t factored in the high-end fashion shop Mattia took her to As for getting aith a casual outfit, forget it The dress the assistant held out for her to try on after Mattia told her to find so that wasn’t elaborate or formal but could be worn just about anywhere took Elene’s breath away And probably cost more than a week’s salary back home ‘I can’t take that’
‘You haven’t tried it on yet’ Mattia grinned and jiggled his daughter in his arot all day’
Slipping into the slinky red thigh-length dress, Elene stared at the iure come to life as the assistant closed the zip Who was this stranger?
‘Wow’ she croaked
‘Wow, indeed,’ came that deep, sexy voice she knew she’d miss when she left Sorrento
She flicked around ‘Mattia?’