by Penny Jordan
‘Lust for love?’ Annie supplied for him, shaking her head as she told him, ‘I’m twenty-four, Falcon—not sixteen. I could have broken out of my Colin-imposed cage of fear a long time ago if I’d really wanted to. But I didn’t want to. Not until I met you. That first time we met in the hotel foyer, the minute you touched me, I knew that something inside me had changed.’
‘It was the same for me,’ Falcon admitted. He had taken hold of her hand, and his fingers were now entwined lovingly with hers. ‘Although I didn’t recognise what I felt for you at first as love. Had I done so, I would never...’
‘Have become my sexual teacher and healer?’ Annie suggested.
‘That is what I should say—but I cannot do so since I have no idea if it is true. Where you are concerned I have no control over my feelings.’
‘You certainly seemed to be able to control them earlier,’ Annie pointed out.
‘That wasn’t control, it was desperation. I knew that once I touched you I wouldn’t be able to stop. You are far too good a pupil—irresistible, in fact.’
He was reaching for her, and Annie happily snuggled closer to him.
‘Mmm...’ she encouraged him. ‘How irresistible, exactly?’
EPILOGUE
‘YOU MAY KISS the bride.’
Annie’s face was alight with joy and love as Falcon raised the traditional lace veil which was a family heirloom back off her face and kissed her reverently.
The church was filled with Leopardi family and friends, all come to witness and celebrate their marriage—arranged so hastily, Falcon had put it about, because of the precarious state of the old Prince’s health.
Annie smiled a secret smile of private happiness. She might not as yet have the same bloomingly pregnant figure as the wives of Falcon’s two brothers, but her and Falcon’s baby was already growing inside her—had, she was sure, been conceived that very first time they had made love.
‘I love you,’ Falcon whispered to her.
‘I love you too,’ she whispered back.
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ISBN: 9781460303917
SICILIAN NIGHTS
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THE SICILIAN BOSS’S MISTRESS
Copyright © 2009 by Penny Jordan
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Copyright © 2009 by Penny Jordan
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