by Pippa Roscoe
“It’s nearly midnight,” she said, glancing over his shoulder at the enormous clock that had been mounted on the wall of the palace ballroom for tonight’s New Year’s countdown.
He glanced at the clock, too. “Ten minutes.”
Her gaze took in the orchestra on the stage playing everyone’s favorites, and the throng of beautiful people filling the dance floor. The seventeenth-century ballroom was packed with some of Europe’s most glamorous, wealthy people. They were having a wonderful time, laughing, dancing, drinking, celebrating. When the clock struck midnight, the celebration would become deafening.
She’d always hated crowds, and normally avoided parties, but when the invitation came to attend the Riccis’ party, she didn’t say no. She couldn’t say no.
“What are you thinking, cara?” Brando’s deep voice was a caress.
Cara, darling. She felt another helpless shiver race through her.
She’d come tonight for him.
She wanted only him.
And yet, her rules. Her stupid rules.
She dampened her lips with the tip of her tongue. “I don’t mix—”
“Business and pleasure,” he completed for her. “I know. But tonight is not business. We’re done with business, done with the family, done doing what others want us to do.”
His lips brushed hers, a fleeting kiss that felt as if he’d set a thousand butterflies free inside her heart and mind. Wings of hope. Flutters of possibilities.
She always lived so alone, so controlled, so contained, but tonight... Tonight she felt as if maybe, just maybe, she belonged somewhere, to someone. Even if it were for one night only.
“Just tonight,” she said hoarsely. “You must agree this is just one night, and nothing more than that. Promise me, Brando.”
His lips brushed hers again. “Fine. Tonight is ours. Tonight belongs to us.”
“And tomorrow—”
“We won’t worry about. It’s not here.”
Copyright © 2020 by Jane Porter
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ISBN-13: 9781488068515
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Copyright © 2020 by Pippa Roscoe
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