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‘I will not apologise for being selfish when it coelo’s’ Vito marvelled at her inability to appreciate that he would always place their needs over the needs of others What rong with that? It was true that it took a certain aht hard in life for every single achieve with an approach that s for his family and h effort happiness could be balanced as smoothly as a profit-and-loss column

With his strong white teeth he nipped playfully at the reproving fingertip rapping his chin

Holly startled and then giggled and sighed ‘What a to do with you?’

‘Anything you want… I’olden eyes holding hers with explicit need for a heartbeat He pushed her back against the pillows and then his ry, delicious force

Heat unfurled in her pelvis Her heart raced and the tension went out of her only to be replaced by a new kind of tension that shih her bloodstream like an aphrodisiac and asps between kisses, each leading into the next until he rolled back and, having established that there was no helpful zip, he gathered the heed it up over her body and over her head to pitch it aside

‘That’s better,’ he growled, pausing to aderie

‘Except you’re still wearing far tooon his shirt buttons

Vito yanked off his shirt without ceremony, kicked off his shoes, peeled off his socks, only to halt there, his long, lean fra while Holly’s hands roamed over the hills and valleys of his hard, ers took a detour to follow the furrow of dark hair vanishing below the waistband of his jeans

‘I missed you,’ she said truthfully ‘I missed this…’

Unfreezing, lean dark features rigid with control, he unsnapped his jeans and vaulted off the bed to take theht of my life, bellezza mia’

And yet he still hadn’t ht or the followingHad he really not seen her note? Could she believe that?

‘That note I left at the cottage for you—’ she began breathlessly

‘I didn’t see it’