A Son Hidden from the Sicilian by Lorraine Hall

Author:Lorraine Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-05-15T18:08:55+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

BRIANNA DID NOT care that he was here. She did not care about the gorgeous beauty on his arm. She didn’t care. She was above Lorenzo and his dates and plans. She was here for Brianna.

She had people interested in her process. In her motifs. Her damn inspiration. She did not need Lorenzo’s interest. His concern. His...whatever this was.

She hoped he had a wonderful time with his date. She hoped he fell in love with the woman.

Love is a lie.

If only she could believe that as vehemently as he did. If only anything she felt for him settled in her like a lie. Instead it was like some core tenet of everything she was. Loving him was in her blood and she couldn’t get it out.

Worse, the way he’d walked out of her bedroom earlier, without refuting a single thing she’d said. Letting her think he loved her too was the worst kind of torture.

She tried to focus on the conversations around her, but her eyes wandered. Always veering straight for him. Them, because his date was always with him. And every single time she looked over, he wasn’t gazing at said date. He wasn’t cuddled together with the woman on his arm.

No, every time Brianna looked over, he was looking right back at her. And every single time a jolt went through her whole body. Every time she found herself fantasizing about him striding through the room and coming over to her and...

But he wasn’t with her. He was with this...woman. Beautiful. Tall. Perfect. He didn’t believe in love. Whatever he felt for her didn’t matter to him because he was here with a date. They were a striking couple, really.

She hoped they both choked on their champagne.

She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to get a hold of her whirling feelings. She needed to find somewhere where she couldn’t look at them. Because honestly, her feelings weren’t the fault or responsibility of that woman, or even Lorenzo. Her feelings, her desire, her desperate wish he could believe in love were hers and hers alone.

Brianna made her way through the party, eyeing the balcony that looked out over the sparkling Palermo. Some fresh air, some distance, and she would find a way to get herself under control. She was strong. She’d had to be over the past two years. It couldn’t dissolve just because Lorenzo was back in her life.

Maybe this would all be easier if he hated her. If he told her in no uncertain terms he would never love her. Maybe. But maybe it would just...all be hard, and she had to find some way to deal with it better than she had been.

There were people out here on the balcony, but not as many as inside. She wished she could escape the low buzz of conversation, but Brianna found a little shadowed area of the balcony where it at least felt like she was alone. The cool air against her hot cheeks. The stars above.

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