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Neither of them spoke a word, and Luca took over, drying herbody. They stood in the bathroom, and each stroke, each touch, onlyserved to heighten her arousal for him. She didn’t care that he hadjust brought her to a beautiful orgasm.

I’m addicted.

There couldn’t be any other word for it.When it came to Luca, she was addicted to him and his touch. Thiswas insane. She barely knew him, and yet she wanted to keep feelinghis hands all over her body, and to explore his body the way he exploredhers.

She waited, expecting, but Luca simply walked her toward thebedroom, helped her into the bed, and then joined her. They didn’thave sex, and for Tillie, she couldn’t help but wonderwhy.

Chapter Seven

Luca closed the latest file and placed itback into the pile. He had already let go of the PA who causedTillie some trouble when she arrived for lunch the other day.Running a hand down his face, he sat back in his chair and allowedhimself a few seconds torelax. Once again, his thoughts drifted toward Tillie. Hiswife.

From the moment she stepped into hisoffice several months ago, she had been causing him nothing buttrouble. He’d never beenthis controlled by a woman before, or acted totally irrational.Staring down at his wedding ring, he shook his head. This wasinsane. Luca had promised himself many years ago that he wouldnever make himself vulnerable. Growing up without being wanted hadbeen as vulnerable as he was willing to go.

Every night he went home, he did so withthe intention of not allowing Tillie to get close to him, and each time he failed. Hedidn’t like any distance between them.

Running a hand down his face, he clenchedhis hand with the wedding ring into a fist, and took a deepbreath. There was asudden knock on his office door, and he sat up, pressing the tipsof his fingers together, and told them to enter. He had yet to findhimself a new PA, not that he needed one. He was quite happy to domost of the work himself.

Much to his surprise, David entered hisoffice.

“Hi,” David said.

He looked toward his brother-in-law, he’d not spoken to himmuch other than work. Even at his wedding to Tillie, they hadn’tsocialized.

“Is there anything I can help youwith?” Luca asked. Heand David were civil to one another, and everything had always beenfocused on work. He wasn’t a fool, he knew David was close with hissister.

“Actually, I think you and I shouldtalk.”

Luca raised his brow and waited.

David lowered himself into the chairopposite. “I know there is not a lot of information aboutyou. You date beautifulwomen and you move on.” He stopped to clear his throat. “You canimagine my surprise when you decided to marry mysister.”

Luca continued to stare at hisbrother-in-law.

He laughed. “You know, this is usually the part where youconvince me you have good intentions for my sister.”

“You’re attempting to show brotherlyconcern now? I’ve been married to your sister for over a month, andthen there was the brief engagement, and you didn’tsay anything.”

David ran a hand down his face andblew out a breath. “Iknew there was nothing I or anyone else could do. We needed you tomarry my sister, for the company. I’m not a fool, Luca. I know theonly reason you have taken extra time with us and not stripped itapart is because of her.”

“So what is your problem?” Luca asked.

“I don’t have a problem but I need to knowthat you’re going to treat my sister right.”

“I’m not going to hurt her.”

“There are a lot of different ways you canhurt someone.”

Luca sighed and dropped his arms. “Whydon’t you enlighten meas to what you clearly think I’m going to do?”

“You can cheat.”

“Not going to happen.”

David snorted. “You’ve gone from datingbeautiful models to my sister, and you think you can convince meyou’re not going to cheat?”

Luca got out of his chair and rounded thedesk. “First of all, I don’t do the whole family crap. I never hadone, nor do I care to have one. If you had any concern about how Itreat Tillie, you shouldhave stepped up before now and said ‘fuck it’ to your company. Youdidn’t. You put the company before your sister so I don’t care forthe brotherly love you’re showing.” Luca held up his hand as Davidwent to interrupt. “As for my dating models, they meant nothing tome. As it happens, I consider Tillie, my wife, to be one of themost beautiful women I have ever seen or had the pleasure ofspending time with. In the short time she was in my office,fighting for this company, I knew what a treasure she was, and Iwas not going to allow her to get away so easily. You’re right,David, you don’t know me, because if you did, you wouldn’t comeinto my office right now and insult me.”

The other man threw his hands up. “Isurrender, shit, fuck, I am so sorry. I wasn’t trying to insult youor Tillie. She’s mysister and I care about her a lot, and I want what’s best for her.With everything going on, between the company takeover and UncleEd’s betrayal, I haven’t had a single minute to care about whatreally matters, and that is my sister. I’m not an asshole, althoughthe more I talk, the more I sound like an asshole.”

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