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  As Antonio pulled back to look into her face, Sadie’s love for her husband knew no bounds. She looked into the blackness of his eyes and saw desire swirling within them, mixing with the love she’d always dreamt of.

  ‘But I wanted to make this Christmas extra special. Our first as husband and wife as well as parents.’ His voice was deep and sexy and she looked away to the view of the lights of St Moritz and leaned back against him as his arms pulled her close against his chest.

  ‘So what would make it extra special next year?’ she dared to tease him and smiled that secret smile of a woman in love as his hands slid down her to cradle her stomach and the now prominent bump of their honeymoon baby.

  ‘To have our new son or daughter with us too.’ He kissed her neck and she closed her eyes, sighing contentedly.

  ‘What would you think of having another son?’ she asked as she angled her face to his kiss.

  ‘I just want our baby, happy and healthy.’ He looked at her, suddenly serious. ‘I love you, Sadie. I never thought I’d ever find the happiness I have found with you and Leo, so to have another child, one created on our honeymoon, will be wonderful.’

  ‘So you have no objection to a daughter?’ Still she teased him, having kept her most precious news since the day she’d had her last scan.

  ‘If she is like you, how can I have, mia bella?’ He looked down over her shoulder and she watched as his hands caressed her stomach and his child within. ‘Are you telling me I have a beautiful little girl here?’

  ‘Yes,’ she whispered, fighting the rise of passion from his touch.

  Slowly he turned her in his arms and looked down into her eyes. As he kissed her she forgot the view behind her, or the snow which was falling steadily, making it the perfect white Christmas for Leo. All she could think about was Antonio and how very happy she was.

  She pulled back from him. ‘I love you, Antonio, so very much.’

  He smiled, that devil-may-care sexy smile which had stolen her heart from the first moment she’d met him. ‘Ti amo, mia bella. Ti amo.’

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  Ruthless Prince Adam Katsaros offers Belle a deal – he’ll release her father if she becomes his mistress! Adam’s gaze awakens a heated desire in Belle. Her innocent beauty might redeem his royal reputation – but can she tame the beast inside…

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  THE PRINCE’S CAPTIVE VIRGIN

  “You really are kind of a beast,” Belle said, standing up. Adam caught her wrist, stopped her from leaving.

  “And what bothers you most about that? The fact that you would like to reform me, that you would like for your time here to mean something and you are beginning to see that it won’t? Or is it the fact that you don’t want to reform me at all, and that you rather like me this way. Or at least, your body likes me this way.”

  “Bodies make stupid decisions all the time. My father wanted my mother, and she was a terrible, unloving person who didn’t even want her own daughter. So, forgive me if I find this argument rather uncompelling. It doesn’t make you a good person, just because I enjoy kissing you. And it doesn’t make this something worth exploring.”

  She broke free of him and began to walk away, striding down the hall, back toward her room. He pushed away from the table, letting his chair fall to the floor, not caring enough to right it as he followed after Belle.

  He caught up to her, pivoting so that he was in front of her. She took a step backward, then to the side, butting up against the wall. Then, he caged her between his arms, staring down at her. Her blue eyes were glittering, her breasts rising and falling rapidly with each breath.

  “This is the only thing worth exploring. Not what could be, but what you have. The fire that burns between you and another person. For all you know, in the days since you’ve been here the entire world has fallen away. And if we were all that was left… Would you not regret missing out on the chance to see how hot we could burn?”

  She shook her head. “But the world hasn’t fallen away,” she said, her trembling lips pale now, a complete contrast to the rich color they had been only moments ago. “It’s still there. And whatever happens in here will have consequences out there. I will help you, Adam, but I’m not going to give you my body. I’m not going to destroy that life that I have out there to play games with you in here. You’re a stranger to me, and you’re going to remain a stranger to me. I can pretend. I can give you whatever you need when it comes to making a statement for your country. But beyond that? I can’t.”

  Then, she turned and walked away, and this time, he let her go.

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