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Olivia was the best thing that ever happened to me. But she’s a good girl, and I have a side that is far too dark for a minister’s daughter. When she started talking about plans after graduation, the only thing I could do was run back to Italy—to protect her from me. But she’s back in my life, and I need a wife before I can take full ownership of our failing vineyard and hotel. Only problem is, I want her again. No way can I put my hands on her. One kiss, one taste, could unleash the side of me that would only scare her.
If she discovers my dark side, I don’t know if she’ll flee back to the states, or surrender to me. What she doesn’t know is she already owns me, and if she leaves, I’ll never be the same.
“What are you doing?” she asks, her gaze briefly dropping to my fingers
before dashing upward.
“Getting out of these clothes.” I meet her flickering gaze. “I sleep
naked, remember.”
“I remember,” she whispers, her voice so low I have to strain to hear
it.
Pink stains her cheeks, making her look so angelic. “I’m sorry,” I say. What
the fuck were you thinking, dude? “I’ll keep my clothes on.”
“No. It’s okay.” She waves her hands and then lets them fall to her
sides. “This is just so surreal. When I came here, I never thought I’d run into
you, or find myself in a fake marriage, sleeping in the honeymoon suite. It’s a
lot to take in.”
My heart pinches as I look at her, and all I want to do is go to her,
comfort her—tell her how much I fucking love her, how much I want this to be
real. But I can’t do that. Not without eventually ruining her. In an effort to
lessen her worries, and keep the beast leashed, I point to the chair in the
corner. “I can sleep there.”
She wets her bottom lip, and my insides coil tight. That’s one of my
biggest turn-ons, that and high heels, and she damn well knows it. I study her.
Is it possible that she wants me? That she is going out of her way to seduce
me?
Doesn’t matter. I’m not going there. I can’t.
“It’s not like we haven’t shared a bed,” she says and sinks lower into
the mattress, her body writhing and making me bat-shit crazy as she settles
herself.
My mind instantly goes back to the times I had her beneath me, and I
shift so she doesn’t see the state of my cock. “Yeah, I know. But—”
“Let’s just get some sleep, okay.” She pats the side of the bed. “We’re
both adults and know the score.”
She thinks she knows the score? Not fucking likely. The carnal side of
me fights not to cross a line, push her past her comfort zone, and show her.
But I wrestle that side into submission as I circle the bed.
“Yeah, okay,” I mumble.
Body hard and tense, I shed the rest of my clothes, all but my shorts.
No need to free the beast and make this situation worse. I make a quick trip to
the bathroom then slide between the sheets. Liv’s sweet, vanilla scent reaches
my nostrils, and I breathe her in then cough to cover the growl rumbling in my
throat.
“You okay?”
Okay? Hell no. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be okay again.
“Yeah.”
“’Kay, G’night.”
“Night.”
I roll, putting my back to her and resist the urge to shove my shorts to
my knees and take my cock into my hands. The muscles along my jaw twitch as I
clench hard, fighting my natural inclination to touch her. As I will sleep to
come, I occupy my mind with the villa and all the changes I want to make to
bring it into the twenty-first century and turn the place into a thriving
resort. Beside me, Olivia shifts restlessly, and I wish to fuck she’d stop
moving, stop reminding me she is there.
“Gio,” she asks quietly.
Don’t answer. Don’t answer.
“Yeah?”
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Cathryn Fox is a wife, mom, sister, daughter, and friend. She loves dogs, sunny weather, anything chocolate (she never says no to a brownie) pizza and red wine. She has two teenagers who keep her busy with their never ending activities, and a husband who is convinced he can turn her into a mixed martial arts fan. Cathryn can never find balance in her life, is always trying to find time to go to the gym, can never keep up with emails, Facebook or Twitter but loves to spend time writing page-turning books that her readers will love.
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