Innocent’s Wedding Day with the Italian by Michelle Smart

Author:Michelle Smart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Published: 2023-06-24T17:24:41+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

WHEN THE RIPPLES of her climax subsided enough for Rebecca’s head to clear, she squeezed her eyes shut and wished she could switch her brain off. Wished she could switch her senses off and not be inhaling Enzo’s warm skin or have the taste of it pressed against her lips or have his slowly steadying breaths in her hair or feel the heavy thumps of his heart against her own. Wished she could bring herself to push him off her and stalk out of his room with the same brazen fury with which she’d entered it.

But the passionate fury that had driven her to his bed had evaporated and now she was left with the consequences of allowing the sickness that had infected her to override any sense she had.

She should have been less inhibited and joined in with the body fluid swapping her party-loving university friends had indulged in. She might have struggled to remember the names of the faces she woke beside but at least she wouldn’t be holding on for dear life to stop hot tears from spilling at the monumental mistake she’d just made.

What she’d just experienced was more than in her wildest fantasies; not the things they’d done but the intensity of the feelings evoked in her. And, she suspected with a choked heart, evoked in Enzo.

But not the same ones. Whatever alchemy they’d just shared, for him it had been nothing but a chemical rush. When Rebecca left this villa, he would feel her absence only fleetingly. To miss someone, truly miss them, they had to have touched your soul. Enzo would not miss her. For him, this passion between them was nothing but a side effect of the game he’d been playing all these months.

The game had been played without Rebecca’s knowledge, but it had been everything to her. He’d been everything to her.

He still was, and she had to swallow hard to stem the tears as the impossibility of her love punched through her with the strength of a heavyweight’s blow.

Making love with him hadn’t purged her of anything. It had made everything worse, and now she had to double the strength needed to walk away as the emotions raging in her choked heart felt fit to burst. Because only now did it hit her, fully hit her, that it wasn’t just the tools to mend her shattered heart she needed to find but the tools to navigate her life without him.

The only positive she could find to cling to was that her insanity wouldn’t result in a pregnancy, but even that positive lasted only a flicker as it set off another pang of loss. Rebecca had gone on the pill a few months ago. They’d both agreed the first year of their marriage would be just for the two of them and then they’d start trying for a baby.

There would be no baby now. Not for them. Never for her. Not now.

Enzo slowly turned his face and kissed the top of her ear.

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