Buying His Bride of Convenience by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart [Smart, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

DANIELE’S HOME ON the outskirts of Siena turned out to be a sprawling villa of his own design, sympathetic to the city’s heritage yet undeniably modern. It was so well insulated Eva could have walked around naked without feeling a chill.

They took a leisurely drive there, stopping at a traditional Italian restaurant in a hillside town for some lunch, spent the afternoon touring around the cathedral; the evening in yet another restaurant where they dined on ribolitta soup and pappardelle pasta and a Chianti so smooth Eva had to resist drinking more than two glasses.

As the climate in his home was so constant, she got into the bed without her dressing gown on but with her pyjamas fully done up. Refusing, again, Daniele’s seductive request for a goodnight kiss, she’d again slept with her back to him.

In the morning, though, she’d awoken to find herself spooned against him, his hand holding her belly and a heavy thigh draped over hers, and the warm sensation of desire curling through her veins.

Not until she’d slipped out of the bed without waking him did she notice where on the bed they’d slept curled together. She must have inched her way back to meet him in the middle.

The same thing happened the next night too, but this time Eva woke to find herself curled in his arms with her face pressed against his bare chest, breathing in his warm, musky scent. She’d gone from feeling like she was in some kind of drugged state to being wide awake in an instant and shot out of the bed quicker than a rocket. When her pulses had finally calmed enough for her to leave the sanctuary of the bathroom she’d pretended not to see the knowing gleam in his eyes.

She would deny this attraction for ever if she could. She would ignore her surging heart rate evoked by a simple look and her raging pulses whenever his hand brushed against her.

After two nights and a lazy morning spent wandering around a museum, they made the drive back to the cold castello so they could get ready for a night out with Francesca and Felipe, who were in Pisa for the day.

As soon as they drove into the courtyard Eva could see something major had happened in their absence.

Scaffolding had been erected around their wing, an army of men working against the cold December air repointing the stonework.

The first thing she noticed when they reached their quarters was the lack of draught.

‘New windows,’ Daniele explained with a grin. ‘Wait until you see our bedroom.’

She took one step inside and came to an abrupt halt.

Daniele watched her reaction closely. ‘What do you think?’

‘I had no idea you were doing this,’ she said a little breathlessly, turning to him with a look of wonder.

In the short time they’d been gone his team of contractors had redecorated, replacing the old wallpaper with a gold-leaf pattern that remained sympathetic to the castello’s heritage but with a much more modern twist, and new, thicker carpet put on the floor.

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