Destitute Until The Italian's Diamond (Mills & Boon Modern) by Julia James

Author:Julia James [James, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2022-06-30T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LANA STOOD BENEATH the pounding shower, water sluicing over her. She wished it would wash away her tormented thoughts, rinse the heated blood from her body. But it did no such thing. When she emerged, wrapped in a fleecy towel, she felt no less agitated than when she’d fled from him.

From Salvatore.

From the man who was her husband—in name only.

Because it has to be that way—and stay that way!

That was essential. Imperative. Because otherwise...

Memory, hot and humid, flared within her. In an instant she was back outside, hearing Salvatore say her name, hearing the desire in it, feeling her own response to it flare, standing there, quite motionless, with only the sudden thudding of her heart in anticipation...

If only I hadn’t got out of the car and stared up at the stars as I did! If I’d just gone straight indoors! Said goodnight and thank you and headed straight upstairs! I could have... I could have—

Could have maintained the front she’d managed to preserve all evening, dining at that ridiculously romantic rooftop restaurant, letting that vintage wine seep into her veins, doing its disastrous work, lowering the defences she had erected from the very first moment she’d ever set eyes on Salvatore! Had had to erect.

Because anything else—

Is impossible—just impossible! Impossible because it’s just so complicated! Being here, being his legal wife but not his real wife! Knowing I only married him to get my pay-off at the end. So I can’t... I just can’t...make things ever more complicated between us—

Her own desperate words to him out there under the stars burned in her head again, as her eyes went now to the door between their bedrooms.

Closed.

The way it had to be.

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