Italian Nights to Claim the Virgin by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-02-24T14:31:41+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

OF COURSE NICOLA didn’t catch the commercial flight the next morning. Instead she eked out every last moment with the Italian billionaire. For two days and three nights, Alessio gave her a taste of paradise—there was no other way to describe it—and she wasn’t someone with an overactive imagination. Yet even in her wildest dreams she had never imagined sex could be like this, or that she was capable of experiencing such pleasure, over and over again.

‘You know—you are very, very good,’ Alessio growled at one point, when she was straddling him on the very sofa they had rejected as too small the previous evening.

‘You almost make that sound like a complaint,’ she murmured, the experimental thrust of her hips making him groan helplessly.

‘Dio. Are you out of your mind?’ His smoky sapphire gaze burned into her. ‘You are an exceptionally fast learner, Nicola.’

Yes. She always had been. It had been one of the things which had helped her leave her humble beginnings behind. And one of the first things she’d learnt was always keep your expectations realistic. So that when Alessio captured her lips and she shattered into pieces yet again, she didn’t start imagining what this would be like on a permanent basis. Because that was never going to happen. None of this was real. She didn’t really know him and he didn’t know her. She didn’t want him to. She was having fun in this delicious vacuum. She had pushed her worries about Stacey and the baby and her brother’s release from her mind. She had left her cares back in England. Why shouldn’t she enjoy this sense of freedom and this brand-new version of herself?

Which was why she kept her face impassive as their plane began its descent towards London and Alessio told her of his plans.

‘As soon as we land, I’m afraid I’m going to have to leave you. I have a business meeting in the city.’ There was a pause. ‘And tomorrow I must fly back to the States.’

‘That’s okay.’ Nicola smiled reassuringly. ‘No worries.’

His sapphire eyes had narrowed. ‘You’re sure?’

What did he imagine she was going to do? she wondered caustically. Cling to his ankles and refuse to let go, just because they’d spent the last forty-eight hours having non-stop sex in the beautiful Italian countryside?

And isn’t that what you’d secretly like to do—hold on to him and never let him go? Aren’t you going to miss those long days and nights, with Alessio feeding you scraps of delicious food which had been delivered every morning by some unseen servant of his rich sheikh mate?

‘I think I’ll just about be able to cope,’ she offered wryly.

His answering look conveyed both surprise and approval and Nicola realised that her refusal to try to pin him down was one of the things which made her attractive to him. He was a man who liked the chase, she recognised. An alpha male. A hunter. Maybe it was that which prompted his next drawled statement.

‘But I’m going to be in London next week,’ he said.

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