A Scandal in the Headlines (Sicily's Corretti Dynasty #07) by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews [Crews, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781472015662
Google: kXnqzh2qAQ8C
Amazon: B00DCWVSHW
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2013-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

NICCOLO FALCO. AGAIN. Always.

“Your beloved Niccolo is a liar and a crook,” Alessandro said through his teeth. “He wouldn’t know the right thing to do if it attacked him on the streets of Naples, and he certainly wouldn’t do it. Don’t kid yourself.”

She got to her feet then, stiff and jerky, as if she thought she might break apart where she stood. “I would never lower myself to a Corretti scum like you,” she’d hissed at him on that dance floor, and he’d believed her then.

He didn’t know why he wanted so badly not to believe her now.

“Is this what you meant by real, Alessandro?” she asked in a harsh whisper, her bright eyes ablaze. “Are you satisfied?”

“It would be so much easier to simply give in,” he threw at her, his voice unsteady. As if he’d lost control of himself, which was unacceptable, but he couldn’t stop. “To simply be the man everyone thinks I am, anyway, no matter what I do. Even you, who shouldn’t dare to throw a single stone my way for fear of what I could throw back at you. Even you.”

She sucked in a breath, as if he really had thrown something at her.

“Because there could be no one lower in all of Italy.” Something in the way she said it ripped at him, or maybe that was the way she looked at him, as if he’d finally managed to crush her—and he detested himself anew. “Not one person lower than me. Yet you can’t keep your hands off me, can you?”

“You know exactly what kind of man Niccolo is,” he said then, because he couldn’t handle what her voice did to him. What that look in her eyes made him feel. “You’re here at his bidding, to do whatever dirty work he requires. And it’s certainly been dirty, hasn’t it? But you sneer at my name?”

“I am here,” she threw back at him, her voice still so ragged and her eyes so dark, too dark, “until we discover whether or not our recklessness results in a pregnancy neither one of us wants. We risked bringing a brand-new life into all of this bitterness and hate. That’s the kind of people we are, Alessandro.”

“Why don’t you teach me,” he said then, his gaze on hers, hot and hurt and too many other things he couldn’t define and wasn’t sure he wanted to know, though he could feel them all battering at him.

“Teach you what? Manners? I think we’re past that.”

“You’re the expert on men like me,” he said, fascinated despite himself when she blanched at the way he said that. “You know all about it, apparently. Teach me what that means. Show me. Help me be as bad as you think I am already.”

Something shifted in the air between them. In her gaze. The way her blue eyes shone with unshed misery, and the way she suddenly looked so small then, so vulnerable. So shattered.

And all he felt was … raw. Raw and ruined, all the way through to his bones.

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