Claimed for the Italian's Revenge by Natalie Rivers

Author:Natalie Rivers [Rivers, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780373823772
Amazon: 0373823770
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-11-10T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

CLAUDIA awoke to the sound of the front door slamming, and then she heard footsteps crunching over the gravel outside the cottage. She was lying on the sofa, cocooned in the soft warmth of the duvet.

‘The fog’s cleared. We can get going at once,’ Marco said, coming back inside with a blast of icy air.

Claudia struggled to sit up, still half asleep, and pulled the duvet tighter round her naked body.

She blinked and gazed blurrily at Marco. He was already dressed and looked as if he’d been up for hours. He’d always been like that, she remembered suddenly. He went from deep sleep to being fully awake in a split second. In the time they’d been together, he’d never once used an alarm clock.

She was the complete opposite—slow to wake up properly, even with an alarm buzzing. And she hated getting up in the cold. Marco, apparently, did not mind the cold.

‘I won’t take long to get ready,’ she said, trying to gather the energy to move.

Marco looked down at Claudia as she turned sideways on the sofa to look up at him, dipping her head so that her hair fell forward past her shoulders to partially cover her breasts.

She looked the perfect image of a demure young lady who felt awkward and slightly bewildered at finding herself sitting naked next to a man the morning after a wild sexual encounter, now that the heat of the moment had passed.

Something about her innocent expression slid through Marco’s nerves like a steel blade. He would never forget what she had done, or that she was preparing to marry Vasile.

Her face was still flushed from sleep as she stood up and stumbled round the room wrapped in the duvet, collecting her clothes. Then she headed to the bathroom.

Marco watched her go with an uncomfortable feeling of arousal burning through him.

The thought that he still wanted her disturbed him. He’d followed her to Wales and bedded her for revenge—to seek retribution for the way she had duped him. His intention had been to set the balance of power right—not to find himself driven to seek the delights of her body again, and again.

He knew what kind of woman she was.

He knew she had brought danger and corruption into his innocent sister’s life. And right now—at this very moment—she was planning to marry the bastard who had destroyed his family, simply to get her hands on a large amount of money.

How could he want her in his bed, knowing that?

Because it was just sex. Incredible, mind-blowing sex.

Suddenly a nasty bolt of possessiveness surged through him. Primo Vasile would never have her! Not her money. And definitely not her body.

The money was not important to Marco—except that by keeping it from Vasile he would continue to hound his enemy further into desperate dire straits. But Claudia’s body was a different matter. That would be his. Entirely his. Until he was utterly finished with it.

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