The Legend of de Marco by Abby Green

Author:Abby Green [Green, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2013-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Wild red curls and waves rippled around her head across the stark white pillow. One long curl twisted enticingly down over her breast, kissing the tempting curve. Rocco’s body was already hard. All it took was a look, or the memory of what it was like to surge into her tight, hot embrace.

He couldn’t remember if he’d ever been with a lover so responsive and generous. He prided himself on being a virile, sensual man, and he enjoyed sex, but his experiences in recent years had all been … restrained.

He’d found it easy not to lose control.

But all that had changed with Gracie. He cringed inwardly now to remember how he’d swept the things o the table in the kitchen so that he could take her there, as if he was some out of control rut ing animal.

And yet … she’d loved it. She’d splintered apart around him like his most secret erotic fantasy.

It was as if he’d been merely existing for a long time, and something or someone had woken him from a trance. Colours were more vivid, sounds sharper.

Something fundamental in his beliefs about this woman had shifted last night when he’d seen how hard she’d worked to put together that beautiful meal.

And when he’d seen the genuine hurt in her eyes at how she’d been spoken to. The erce pride in her expression.

She’d spent the bare minimum on his credit card for the food. George had handed it back to him with an explicit look when he’d come back to the apartment before dinner, as if to say, See? She’s not like the rest.

And the assertion struck Rocco again that she didn’t have anything to do with her brother’s machinations.

Even so—the voice of reason intruded—she was loyal to her brother, and that alone meant he couldn’t fully trust her.

Rocco could feel the dominant part of himself that Rocco could feel the dominant part of himself that had struggled for so long to survive and at ain his position try to assert itself. How could he be jeopardising so much, so easily, just for a woman? All his life he’d wanted to distance himself from drama and passion. Chaos and violence. The life he lived now was the absolute antithesis of that. And he was considering diving back into it with Gracie?

Yet surely all was not lost? He could have Gracie O’Brien, and when this desire burnt itself out—as it always did—he would gather around the structures of his life again and ensure his precious status once more.

He smiled cynically. Despite Honora Winthrop’s dire warning, he knew money could buy anything, and ultimately one of those women wouldn’t be able to resist if he wanted to enter into their protected society via marriage. Ever since that day in Italy when he’d been spat at and ignored by his own blood family in the street, and he’d watched them walk away, immune and protected by their status, he’d craved that protection. That security. And he could not lose sight of that now, when he had it in the palm of his hand.

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