Page 49 of Finding Love

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“I can’t believe it.” Luca’s mind is still miles away when he joins me in bed hours after the party ends. Here I am, naked and ready for him, but for once, something looms larger in his mind. “He went behind our backs and arranged a marriage. I never thought I’d feel sorry for Dante.”

“Tell me the truth.” I hook a leg over his hip, grinning playfully. “You liked watching your brother sputter and stutter like he did.”

He can’t help himself. A laugh bursts out of him, and I have to join in. I mean, the guy was determined to kill me, and he didn’t bother hiding his feelings even as I stood in front of him. I’m not exactly going to weep over his arranged marriage.

Besides, it means ending the war. Life for us is never going to be normal—not by any definition I was raised with—but now, it can settle into a regular rhythm. We’ll still be guarded, but we can come and go more freely without the fear of a Vitali assassin lying in wait. Guilia just about exploded with excitement at the idea of having her life back.

“Everything is falling into place.” I use my fingertips to brush a strand of hair away from his forehead, then run my hand down his cheek. The feel of his skin never fails to electrify me. My core warms instantly, and my body wiggles closer to his without my meaning to. “We’re going to have a beautiful wedding and a beautiful honeymoon. A beautiful life.”

Any remaining tension flows from him under the spell of my touch until he’s stirring against my hip and pulling me against him with a sexy growl. “How could we not, when you’re part of it?” he asks with equal parts affection and desire in his voice.

Soon, all thoughts of the family fade into the background until it’s just us. The way it was always meant to be.

THE END.

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