Best Of Jennifer Blake: Contemporary Romance by Blake Jennifer

Author:Blake, Jennifer [Blake, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2018-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

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Carita and Jonathan arrived at the villa with a police escort racing ahead of their matching ambulances and another bringing up the rear. The undulating twin notes of the siren drew everyone to the front entrance. There they waited in a double line, Amanda, Nico and his Nonna on one side, and Aunt Filomena, Carisa and Yolanda on the other. Jonathan was helped up the steps on his crutches by the medical technicians, while Carita was brought in on a stretcher. Both were smiling, almost laughing with the ridiculous display they made and their pleasure in it.

Amanda took over as Jonathan’s escort, walking slowly beside him into the downstairs ladies sitting room that had been turned into a bedroom for him. Carisa walked beside Carita’s stretcher, holding to its side and chattering every step of the way, as she was installed in the invalid’s room next door that had apparently been so designated from time immemorial.

The arrangements had been Amanda’s idea, though Nico had backed her up in it against his grandmother’s protests. She’d had visions of her brother tumbling down the marble stairs in his attempts to visit his fiancée, or Carita doing the same as she sought to spend time with Jonathan.

Nico’s suggestion had been to put in an elevator, something his grandmother might require eventually. Nonna had been scandalized. This was what the invalid’s room was for, she declared, though it would be many years before she was reduced to such straits. She would not have the villa cut up for a modern contraption that would be used a few weeks at the most.

Nonna had a point, Amanda thought, as she was reluctant herself to see permanent damage done to the wonderful old place. With the two of them against him, Nico had thrown up his hands and let them have their way.

It was the only thing he had given in on, however. He had announced Amanda’s engagement to him in print without the least regard for her refusal of his proposal. Spending most of every day at the villa, he had been the most attentive of fiancés. He sat beside her at meals, took her walking in the garden, escorted her on a tour of the villages of the Cinque Terre and swam with her from the beach that was hidden from the villa by the lay of the land. And he made love to her with the tenderness of dedication, taking her in a hidden cove, in a boat floating on its own reflection in liquid aquamarine-blue water, on a dew-damp garden bench while a life-size statue of Pan looked on, laughing slyly as he played his pipes.

When she tried to protest, she was kissed into silence. Any attempt at serious discussion was thwarted as he traced her nipple through the fine knit of one of the shirts he had bought her or tucked his fingers under the edge of the her shorts in search of more erogenous areas than he had located already. She was soon lost in a haze of such drugging desire that she could not think, must less argue with him.

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