Harlequin Presents February 2022--Box Set 1 of 2 by Lynne Graham

Author:Lynne Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Holy hell.

He stared down at her as though awakening from a dream—the best dream he’d ever had, a dream that had crept up on him out of nowhere, that had dragged him into its centre before he realised what was happening. Or was it a nightmare? A nightmare because this was exactly what Luca had told him not to do, exactly what he’d sworn to himself he could control? His best friend deserved more from him, damn it, and Alejandro wasn’t the kind of man to ignore his sense of loyalty—no matter the temptation.

‘Now who is casting a spell over whom?’ he muttered, reaching down and dislodging her grip from his throbbing, painfully tightened cock, staring at her with a sinking feeling that he was putting an end to something that was overwhelming him with the power of his need. But need be damned. He wasn’t going to be this man. For Luca to have been so strenuous in warning Alejandro away from Sienna, there must have been good reason. And he could see that clearly for himself: she was nice. Too nice for him. Gentle and sweet and kind, exactly the kind of woman he avoided like the plague, because nice women were ripe to being hurt by men like him, and he refused to be an instrument of pain. Luca knew that, and so he’d warned Alejandro. None of which was Sienna’s fault.

‘I—’ Disappointment and surprise crossed her features and then, unmistakably, hurt, so he wanted to undo the last thirty seconds, replace her hand on his arousal, and kiss her again until she was moaning beneath him, those sweet, soft little noises just exactly what he wanted to hear right now.

‘I got carried away,’ he said, quietly, the understatement shaming him.

‘We both did.’ She stepped down from the balustrade, ignoring the hand he held out in a gesture of help, fixing him with a cool stare that was only slightly undermined by the shaking of her lower lip.

He watched as she straightened her dress—it didn’t even occur to him to turn away until much later—and the way her hands ran over her body, making sure everything was in place, was its own special torment, because while she touched her body all he could think about was his own hands following that exact course. He balled fists at his sides then thrust them into his pockets.

‘Listen, Sienna—’ But what could he say? How could he explain that he’d made a promise to his friend not to touch her? How could he say that without making her feel like a piece of meat two men had negotiated over? Anger flared in his belly—Luca had asked him for a favour and it hadn’t occurred to Alejandro to mind, until he’d met Sienna. Now, the idea of being prohibited from being with her was burning through him like acid.

‘Excuse me.’ Her tone was like ice, her imminent departure making the decision for him. ‘I think I hear my mother calling for me.

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