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‘What are you thinking about?’ she asked, pressing cool fingers to his furrowed brow, trying to soothe thoughts she couldn’t read.
‘About secrets and lies,’ he said with a heavy sigh.
‘There will never be such things between us again,’ she promised.
‘Oh,cara,’ he said, with mock gravity. ‘There is just one more secret that you must keep. One that you can’t tell anyone,’ he said to her, pressing a kiss against his favourite part of her.
‘What’s that?’ Erin whispered, her voice husky with desire.
‘That the Playboy of Amalfi waited until his wedding night.’
‘I did once tell you that I had traditional values,’ she said, sighing as his palms found her breasts and his mouth found the delicate skin at the curve of her neck.
The whisper of a moan was stolen by the wind, as he turned her in his arms, to feel the blazing heat of her gaze on him. The blush on her cheeks was pretty, not the painful, blotchy, mark of humiliation, but this one almost beautiful to see. He would have her wearing nothing else but that blush if she would allow him.
‘No one would believe me if I told them,’ she said, a smile on her beautiful lips. ‘They’d think it a lie.’
‘Because no one can resist the charms of the Playboy of Amalfi?’ he teased with another kiss.
‘Oh, I can resist your charms, Enzo Rossetti,’ Erin said confidently and playfully. ‘But I could not resist your heart,’ she said, her words touching his soul.
‘I didn’t have a heart until you came along,’ he confessed.
‘Yes, you did. You were just looking for it in the wrong place.’
‘Because even before I’d met you, it was yours,’ he said and kissed her with all the love he felt for her.
That night, beneath the canopy of stars, he loved her and pleasured her until they were both utterly spent, and he was thankful that they’d waited. Thankful that this was the first of all the nights of the rest of his life to love her, worship her soul, spirit and body. It was the joy of his life that he could make such a vow to such an incredible woman. The woman who had come looking for a wedding ring, and found a happy-ever-after.
