Cinderella In The Boss's Palazzo (Mills & Boon Modern) by Julia James

Author:Julia James [James, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Moon Modern
Published: 2021-03-18T15:38:26+00:00

‘Papà has gone!’ Amelie’s voice was mournful and unhappy, and she was unwilling to settle back into the routine of daily lessons. ‘Back to Turin.’

‘He has to work, Amelie—he cannot be here all the time,’ Jenna answered steadily, though it was an effort to do so.

Misery filled her. And self-recrimination—bitter and galling—at her own folly. Clinging to him when he’d kissed her, kissing him back with such ardency—only for him to push her away from him, reject what had happened.

She had to reject it too. For his sake—and for hers—she had to consign it to nothing more than a tormenting memory and then starve that memory.

But how? Oh, dear God, how? How could she ever forget? Forget being in his arms...forget his kiss? Forget everything that she had felt and longed for? Forget the touch of the man she had fallen in love with—

She froze, horror washing over her. No—no, that could not be. It couldn’t!

That was a folly that was unendurable.

And yet it was as undeniable as the sun in the sky.

She turned her face to the window as the truth hammered into her, not wanting Amelie to see her expression, knowing her face was likely drained and whitened in shock.

I love him. I love him and I can’t stop it, or turn it off, or make it unhappen. I love him and it is unbearable that I do. Unbearable to love a man who pushed me from him—sent me away.

Yet bear it she must—what else could she do?

One thing only.

She set her face, still likely white as bone, knowing that all she could do now was endure and return again to being the person she had been all along. She would retreat into her safe place, where she would keep herself safe from more rejection—retreat into her familiar, self-effacing invisibility.

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