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‘Dio mio…how many different families did you live with?’

‘I never counted but there were a lot of theet settled somewhere and then soo at bonding with ain for a few months’

Vito was frowning as he set up the game ‘Your mother was still alive?’

‘Just not a good parent It never worked out with her,’ Holly coloss over the facts with as little detail as possible while she watched Vito, lean hips flexing down into powerful thighs as he bent down

Fro on the floor, she could adered brown hands as he leant over the console His every ed And when she glanced up at him she noticed the black density of his eyelashes and the definition that dark luxuriance lent to his already stunning dark eyes Her nipples were tight little buds inside her bra and she felt hot

‘Your father?’ Vito queried

‘I had no idea who my father was so he didn’t co around was the reason why I moved around so much, because she refused to allow me to be put up for adoption Every tiain to go back into care, I ended up with a new foster farow up’

Vito had always thought he had it rough with a tyrannical grandfather, warring parents and being an only child on wholimpse at what lay on Holly’s side of the fence sobered hi new perspective He had always had security and he had always known he was loved And although Holly had enjoyed neither advantage, she wasn’tappreciation

As Vito lounged back on the sofa his six-pack abs rippled below the soft cotton stretched over his broad chest and Holly’s ly beautifully built and the acknowledge into her cheeks because she had never looked at a ht that before But she couldn’t take her eyes off him and it mortified her It was as if she had been locked back into a teenager’s body again because there was nothing sensible or controlled about what she was experiencing

‘We’ll set the tihtly, doubting that she would last the ga

Fortunately, Holly didn’t even have to think while she played hiames had been her escape from the reality of a life that hurt too much With the weapon she had picked she e was over and she had won

‘You’re very fast,’ Vito conceded with a slashing grin of appreciation, because once again he could not think of a single wo chosen to play hih she was a better player Of course that was a debatable point when he didn’t actually know any other woman who could play

‘Lots of practice over the years,’ Holly conceded, still recovering froht through his essential reserve Ga had relaxed him, warmed him up, melted that cool façade he wore to show the real man underneath And now he didn’t just strike her as heartbreakingly handsoht irresistible She shifted uneasily in her seat, her body tense and so weirdly super sensitive that even her clothes seemed to chafe her tender skin

‘And the prize is…’ Vito’s attention locked like a missile to the soft pink fullness of her et to put your Christmas tree up’

Holly sprang off the seat ‘Seriously?’ she exclaimed in surprise