Italian's Christmas Acquisition by Millie Adams

Author:Millie Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2024-07-24T14:49:49+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

SHE WAS LIKE a different person. Polished from head to toe. She had spent far too long of the flight on her makeup and hair. The clothes that had been provided for her were beautiful, she couldn’t deny that.

But she felt a strange distance between herself and Rocco, because he had decided to put it there with his cold words about their arrangement. He had done that to them. And he had done it on purpose, she knew that. It was tempting to try and make it so he didn’t win. But perhaps he was going to win just for a little bit. When she emerged from the bedroom, there was a strange light in his eyes, and she couldn’t read it. She decided she wasn’t going to bother.

The ring felt heavy on her hand, and the plane began to descend, which unnerved her, so she sat down and buckled her seatbelt.

Then, she took a look out the window. She could see the city off in the distance. A skyline that she had seen in movies countless times over, but had never imagined that she would see in person. She wasn’t sure she had even wanted to. It was such a strange, surreal feeling. Before she knew it, the plane’s wheels connected to the ground, and they taxied for a brief moment before they came to a stop.

“A car will drive up to the door to meet us.”

She looked up at him. “I imagine this is quite a different experience to typical plane travel. I only vaguely remember.”

“Yes, normally you must fight through the crowd like you’re in a herd of cattle.”

“So you’ve been told?”

“Yes. I’ve heard.”

Her heart gave a little jump start. Because maybe they were back to being them. Such as they were. Maybe there was a little bit of a connection there still. Even though he was being difficult.

The door to the plane opened smoothly, and he took her hand. She couldn’t keep any physical distance between them, he was making sure of that, and when the physical distance was erased, she found that it was harder and harder to maintain emotional distance. That was the danger of him. The physical connection was just so intense.

She was startled by the first flash of the camera when they got off the plane, by the crush of people who surrounded their car. He did not seem bothered by it at all. The click and pop of each picture felt like getting hit with a tiny boulder, and she started each time. But they made their way quickly to the car, the door shutting behind them. The windows tinted, hopefully enough to conceal them from view. She didn’t know if she had done what he needed her to do.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “I forgot to gaze adoringly at you.”

“That’s quite all right. It’s all right if you look surprised, because you are definitely being positioned as my sweet small-town fiancée.”

She frowned. “Shouldn’t there have been security keeping them away from us?”

“Yes.

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