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At his touch, Holly turned rigid with discomfiture ‘I meant friendly rather than—’

‘Maledizione! You want me to be friendly when I can hardly keep my hands off you?’ Vito shot at her with raw incredulity ‘I don’t think I can e that’

‘But you have to I wouldn’t be co else,’ Holly told him earnestly, convinced that only disaster would follow if she allowed any further intimacy to complicate an already tense relationship

‘Have to?’ Vito queried, a flash of glittering challenge entering his searching gaze as he stared down at her ‘Have you got someone else in your life…another man?’

Holly dealt hi that?’

Without warning, Vito ainst the wall behind her ‘Because if there was I’d probably want to kill him!’ he muttered in a raw undertone

In wonderment, Holly looked up into his lean, darkly beautiful face and then her view blurred as he hauled her up to his level and opened herdema

nd of his own He tasted so good, allher felt even better Every hard, angular line of his long, lean physique was pressed against her as he braced her hips against the wall The passion of that hungry kiss threatened to consume her and the anomaly between the cool face he showed the world and the uncontrolled hotness hidden beneath electrified her The piercing ache she had alled with hers His ainst her softer curves, incredible Insane che back from him with shell-shocked abruptness because she kneith shamed horror that all she really wanted to do with hi hi pleasure he could give her

‘No, this is not what you’re here for…’ she muttered in curt reminder, her spine stiff as she turned her back on hi rooelo and that’s all’

‘Youbut sie to his voice because she had pushed hie to turn caveman and yank her back to him

‘If we both make the effort, we can keep this siorous resolve

‘I have so I need to explain to you first…’ But by that point, Vito could see over the top of Holly’s head and his attention zeroed in so quickly on the child in the infant seat that his voice literally trailed away

And for Vito it was as though the rest of the world vanished He focused in amazement on the baby who bore a reraph Vito’s e brown eyes fro curiosity A chubby fist waved in the air and suddenly Vito froze, out of his coone weak at the knees for puppies or babies, had put that lack of a softer side down to his grandfather’s rigid discipline But noas looking at his son and seeing a baby with his own features in ht of fatherhood unnerved him His own father had been a hopeless parent How elo when he had no idea even where to start?

Holly paused beside the child seat to say aardly, ‘So…er…obviously this is Angelo He’s a little bored at weekends because during the week I look after a pair of toddlers and it’s a lot livelier here’

Vito tried to stand a little less stiffly but in truth he felt e and left hielo?’