The Flaw In His Marriage Plan (Once Upon a Temptation, Book 7) by Tara Pammi

Author:Tara Pammi [Pammi, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-05-28T15:21:38+00:00

“I’d like to go home now, please. If you’re done for the night,” Alessandra whispered with a polite smile pasted on her mouth the moment Vincenzo reached her.

“That picture of us on the morning of our wedding...leaking it to the press... I never gave a direct, specific instruction to do that.” He pressed his fingers to her mouth when she’d have protested. “Hear me out, please, Alessandra.

“And before you shred my team into pieces, they only followed my order—to a T—that they improve my image in the media.

“So, yes, the ultimate responsibility is mine, but it was a thoughtless, general action rather than a deliberate, strategic one to hurt you, or to lessen the significance of that day for you.”

Her beautiful brown gaze mirrored her disbelief and hurt.

Vincenzo took her fingers in his and pressed. A harsh exhale left him when she didn’t pull away. “I should have realized it was so important to you. I should have—”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“Si! It does matter. What you think of all this, it does matter.” He’d been about to say What you think of me, but held it back, “I’m beginning to understand how much what I did hurt you. But my intentions for you, for this marriage have always been the same. From the beginning.”

She held his gaze, as if she could hold him to his word like that. As if she could see into his heart.

“Just promise me that you won’t use me in this battle of yours,” she said.

“I won’t. I have already said our marriage will stand outside of it. Come now, Princess. Dance with me.”

She said nothing. Didn’t move.

“It’s a beautiful night. And I want to dance with my beautiful wife. I want to show all the men salivating over you that you’re mine. Only mine.”

Vincenzo waited. For all of Antonio’s disapproval, he knew in his heart that she was the one he wanted when he finally reached the end of all this. She was the one who had birthed the future he hadn’t even realized could be his.

He left his hand outstretched. Finally, with a soft sigh, she came to him. And everything else ceased to exist for Vincenzo. The crowd around them, the soft music, the moonlight, everything became secondary to the sensation of having Alessandra in his arms.

She was like liquid silk poured over taut, warm limbs, her face hidden in the curve of his shoulder. Her fingers a brand on the nape of his neck. Her breaths a soft whisper against his skin. For long minutes, they just moved to the music, their bodies easily swaying in a matching rhythm.

“You stole it from me.”

“Have you forgiven me yet?” he whispered. “For making that picture public.”

“You’re who you are.” The defeat in those words slayed him.

“I...there was something between us on the island, si. But I think, in the real world, we’ve broken that trust. Both of us.”

She lifted her head and stared straight into his eyes. And nodded slowly. She pulled away from him and leaned against the balcony.

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