The Sicilian's Red-Hot Revenge by Kate Walker

Author:Kate Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

WHAT the hell was he doing here?

Vito brought his car to a halt, yanked on the brake with less than his usual care, and stared at the house straight in front of him.

When he had imagined himself turning up at Emily Lawton’s home at any time after their brief encounter, he hadn’t really thought ahead to what he might find or where she might live. But if he had thought of her home, then it would not have been this large, elegant stone-built manor house that came to mind.

Oh, face it! Realising that the engine was still idling, he reached out and switched it off with a brusque twist of his wrist. The truth was that he had never, ever imagined seeing Emily again, let alone thought of turning up at her home, unannounced and unprepared. Hell, hadn’t he spent the past almost five months trying to forget that the damn woman ever existed?

And that was the trouble.

He’d tried. Dannazione, but he’d tried. He’d thrown himself into his work, but each time he carved a new piece he’d found that unless he concentrated fiercely he would end up carving her face or her hands, or her body…

He’d tried to see other women. But no woman appealed—or if he did find a spark of interest, it was because of a tall, slender figure, or a head of sleek blonde hair—blue eyes. There were times when he’d been tempted to take another woman to bed. To lose himself in pleasure, drive away the memory of a single night that lingered in his mind like paint in water after a brush had been washed out, colouring everything and impossible to remove. But he had never been able to bring himself to actually make the move.

In the end he had been glad to get back to Sicily. Glad to go back to the life he had taken a year’s holiday from. He had planned to concentrate on being Corsentino of Corsentino Marine and Leisure but then some news he had picked up while in England and had passed on to his brother, Guido, had had reverberations that he had never anticipated.

‘Emily Lawton,’ he murmured, speaking aloud at last the name that he had refused to let pass his lips again until the shock discovery yesterday had forced it out into the open.

Emily Lawton.

He could have found her, hunted her down, if he’d wanted to. And if he was honest, he’d been tempted. But when he came close to weakening then the memory of what she’d done, of the way she’d behaved—the fact that she was married—had slammed the door in his mind shut on any such foolish idea and kept his thoughts from wandering on to the possibility of how it might be if they met again.

But then Guido had gone to England to stop a marriage and had ended up bringing home the bride for himself. And his brother’s new woman—Amber—had known who Emily Lawton was. In fact, Emily had been a guest at the aborted wedding.

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