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“If that was all I ever wanted I could have asked a dozen women—more—to marry me over the years, but I did not.”
Оглавление“Why didn’t you ask them?” she managed, knowing that it was what he wanted her to say. Cesare’s smile was slow, almost benign, but there was something in his eyes that stopped it from being the tender response it appeared.
“They didn’t offer me what I wanted,” he said with a deliberate softness.
“And that was…?” she whispered, and watched his smile grow into a wicked grin.
“This…”
She barely had time to catch her breath before his mouth came down on hers, but it was with an unexpected gentleness that seemed to draw out her soul, take it away from her and hold it captive. And in that moment she knew that she was lost. Knew that no matter how hard she tried to convince herself, there was no way in the world that she was over Cesare Santorino.
