The Amalfitano's Bold Abduction (The Italian Billionaires Collection) by Blake Jennifer

Author:Blake, Jennifer [Blake, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2013-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Andrea was not a devotee of nude beaches, had never paraded along one in naked nonchalance. He might have made love on a beach in his more heedless teenage years, but not since and never in broad daylight.

It wasn’t that he’d grown prudish, but rather that he’d gained better sense. Long-range camera lenses made nonsense of pretension of seclusion, and he had no wish to see his backside displayed in the tabloids. No, nor to pay exorbitant sums to an enterprising paparazzo to keep it from their pages.

Beyond that, he respected his partners too much for such stupidity. He would not expose them to such needless embarrassment. At least, he never had before.

He had come close, so close, to making love to Dana under an open sky and with the sea murmuring at their feet. It was truly incredible.

The woman destroyed his ability to think in a way he didn’t understand. It had never happened to him before, this abandonment of principles he’d thought so embedded there was no need to think of them. She tempted him past his will to resist.

The irony of it was that she wasn’t even trying.

God help him if she should ever decide to try.

He barely knew her, or she him. They had been through a number of precarious situations together, but closeness wasn’t necessarily a by-product. Regardless, he was drawn to her like a thirsty man to cool water. He’d told her he wanted to know everything about her and meant just that. He wanted to know what she’d been like as a child, the things she’d done and seen that brought her joy, and how she felt on the issues of the moment.

Her skin enthralled him, its satiny sheen and pale, blue-veined smoothness where sun had never touched, also the tracing of golden freckles on her shoulders. He wanted to lick those freckles like bits of candy, taking their sweetness on the tip of his tongue. And her nipples, such an amazing clear pink and incredibly tender, responding to his slightest touch in a way that made him steel-hard just remembering it.

He would do well to forget. Dana might allow herself to be charmed for a short while, but common sense would soon reestablish itself. Home for her was in the States with her family. When this business with Bella was done, she would rejoin her friends for the rest of her holiday. Following that, she would return to Atlanta and the position for which she was trained, and never think about him or the Isola delle Palme delle Tonellos again.

Andrea knew these things well. Accepting them was something else altogether.

He and Dana returned to the house with Guaio following along behind them. They showered and changed, after which he retreated to his office while she sat on the terrace with a magazine in her lap.

He thought she napped out there in the pergola’s shade, but couldn’t be sure. He could only see her head and shoulders as he stood back at an angle from his study window.

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