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The planet he was on was definitely far, far froht crazily as she raised her brows ‘Where else would I sleep?’

‘Obviously you could have your own room,’ Vito told her valiantly

And Holly al his extraordinarily polite self and going against his own instincts She could see it in the tension etched in his lean, darkly handso his dark, deep drawl He really, really didn’t want her to choose a separate bedroom and she wondered why on earth he had made the offer ‘No…’ Holly reached for his clenched hand ‘You’re not getting rid of me that easily,’ she teased

Vito laughed and smiled almost simultaneously and all the tension vanished Silly, silly ht wariven her a choice? Separate bedrooantic house? How his parents and grandparents had lived? Well, fro to have to learn how a nor shared a bed with him once had only made her all the keener to repeat the experience, she acknowledged, her colour rising But there was just no way of denying that the er clenched her deep down inside when she looked at Vito

Months had passed since that night in the cottage but she had learned a lot about herself after that first educational experience Other men hadn’t tempted her the way Vito had and she had always assumed that that’d meant she wasn’t a very sensual person Vito, however, had unleashed her newly discovered appetite for intiht man for her She could only hope that she would prove to be the right woman for him

Natalia opened the doors of what had to be the ly bedroom Holly had ever seen It was truly hideous Heavy dark drapes shut out loomy A material that looked and felt like dark red leather covered the walls and every other surface fro to the furniture, which was heavily gilded in gold Holly sed hard It looked as though it hadn’t been decorated in at least a hundred years and it was very possible that the weird paper was antique like the furniture

Well, Holly thought as her maid cast open the doors to show her around what appeared to be an entire suite of rooht be keen to share a bedrooht have to move the location of the shared bedrooe room walled with closets, which she swept open to display the contents

‘Who does all this belong to?’ Holly asked, recoiling while wondering if all the gar had been left behind by Vito’s former fiancée, Marzia

‘Is your gift…is new,’ the brunette stressed while showing off a still-attached label to what appeared to be a hand-elamour that it took Holly’s breath away

A gift that could only be froered through drawers packed with lingerie and nightwear in little decorative bags and stared at the racks of shoes and accessories Natalia was eager for her to see and appreciate It was a ether for Holly, after the wedding, thequery about whether or not she illing to share a bedrooe was she in that he had told her so little about his life and yet bought her soaround his money made up for his failure to explain all the other stuff?

Catching a glimpse of her creased and tousled reflection in one of the roaned She didn’t want to get tricked out in fancy clothes, she sile case on the now see that had been her lot pre-Vito, Holly bent down to scoop out her one extravagance: a shi maxi dress with an iridescent sheen that ski fit She was relieved to see that while the bedrooe, the en-suite bathroo into a wonderful walled rain-forest shower, she rinsed away the tired stickiness of travel and tried to let her anxieties float off down the drain with the soapy water

A e hat youthe challenge ahead They had elo’s benefit but their son could only enjoy a happy hoood relationship Holly’s childhood had been daence, Vito’s by his father’s indifference He should’ve warned her about the giant historic house and the extravagant neardrobe, but she could no reed than she had estienerosity

Dressed, her black hair tu freely round her shoulders, Holl

y explored the connecting rooh earlier A door stood ajar on the balcony that led off the sitting rooo down over the stunning landscape and the old and terracotta splendour Sounds in the room she had vacated alerted her to the arrival of a trolley, and the rattle of cutlery fired her appetite and drew her back indoors

Vito was framed by a doorway at the far end of the room, his suit abandoned in favour of jeans and a white shirt open at his strong brown throat Her tummy ith butterflies as she instinctively drew in a deep breath and savoured her view of hily handso eyes of a hawk