Tara Pammi - Italian Mavericks - Carrying The Italian's Heir - Married for the Italian's Heir / The Last Heir of Monterrato / The Surprise Conti Child

‘I bought it for his sixteenth birthday and planned to give it to him that evening, after a family meal, but Alessio had other ideas and he’d long since gone. I spent the night consoling my mother and being angry with him, wanting only to banish the selfish youngster from my mind and my life.’

She put her hand to her mouth to stifle a gasp of shock, but it still slipped out. ‘That must have been terrible for your mother.’

‘I have never forgiven myself for doing that to her.’

‘You?’

‘If I hadn’t ruled Alessio so hard, trying to shape him into the man I wanted him to be instead of allowing him to find out who he was, this conversation wouldn’t be happening.’

‘I still don’t see how it’s your fault,’ she said, exasperation getting the better of her.

‘That, cara, is because you do not know me. Nothing good will come of you being entangled in my life.’

‘Our child will come of it, and to me that is good.’ She flung the words at him, angry that he wouldn’t let her close, wouldn’t let her past the invisible barrier he had around him.

Slowly he moved towards her and reached out, touching her face. Her anger melted away and she yearned for more than a caress to her face.

‘You have a very generous nature. Never let anyone change that. Least of all me.’

Before she could say anything else he brushed his lips over hers and her eyelashes fluttered down. As he moved back, away from her, it was as if he was going behind a barrier of ice. She could still see him, but the coldness in his eyes, the frozen set of his shoulders, warned her that what they’d shared during the weekend was finished.

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