A Scandal Made At Midnight by Kate Hewitt

Author:Kate Hewitt [Hewitt, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2022-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

Somehow he didn’t feel that conversation had gone quite as he might have wanted it to. It had been entirely surprising, shocking even, as well as unsettling, to have Liane ask him so directly. Why not me?

Why not, indeed?

The truth was, he could imagine all too easily how she would feel in his arms. Her lips on his, her body pliant against his as he plundered her softness, as she yielded it up to him...yes, he could imagine it very well indeed. But the truth was, he’d meant what he’d said. All his affairs had been conducted in an almost businesslike fashion: two people agreeing to use each other’s bodies for pleasure. It was cold-hearted, yes, but it had worked. No emotions engaged, no possibility of feeling exposed or hurt, of sending wrong signals, of making it more than it was.

But the thought of having such an affair with Liane was...wrong, on a fundamental level. Wrong and distasteful and definitely not something he wanted, strangely enough, considering the desire currently racing through his veins, setting his blood on fire.

She wasn’t a woman to be trifled with, to use as he felt like and then dispense with when he was done, even if she agreed with what he already knew would be the undoubtedly, overwhelmingly pleasurable using.

You’re a woman who was made for the fairy tale.

What a cringingly sentimental notion, and yet he’d meant it, absolutely. Even if she didn’t believe she did, Liane deserved the fairy tale, complete with the bow-wrapped happily-ever-after ending, and that was something he knew he could never, ever give. He refused to try.

Looking at her closed expression now, her eyes veiled as she focused on her meal, he suspected that she didn’t believe he’d meant what he’d said. She persisted in clinging to the exasperating idea that he felt sorry for her, simply because she wasn’t like her stepsister. As if anyone needed more Ellas in the world!

Even so, Alessandro was hesitant to disabuse her of the notion. Better they simply move on, as friends as he’d said, and never discuss this again. Because if Liane was meant for the fairy tale, he wasn’t. And he had no intention of hurting her by letting her think even for a second that fairy tales were real when it came to him...no matter what her sister was able to show on social media.

He thought they managed, more or less, to recover their equilibrium over the course of the lunch; Alessandro asked her if she’d ever been to London, which she had, and then told her he wanted her to show him some of the sights in Paris.

‘I’m sure you’ve seen Paris dozens of times,’ she replied, and he smiled at her, longing to get back some of the connection he’d felt before, if not quite all of it.

‘Not by a true Parisienne.’

‘I grew up more in Lyon than Paris, but very well.’ She shrugged, managed a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. ‘If there is time, I’d be happy to show you some sights, but this trip does seem like a whirlwind.

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