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CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 A Note to My Readers
Thank you.That's really all I want to say, but it doesn't feel like enough. You stayed with Rhaena and Alessio through every twist and every hard-won moment. You cried with them. You got angry for them. You rooted for them even when the world tried to keep them apart. This book exists because you kept reading. I hope their story gave you everything you needed.If you loved this one, please check out my other books. There's more forbidden love and slow-burn romance waiting for you.And watch out, because I'm not done. Coming soon: ON ICE: Pucking My Ex Best Friend's Stepbrother — a new secret romance full of tension you won't want to put down.Thank you for reading. Thank you for loving these characters as much as I do.Until the next book,Nancy Grey 🖤
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 197
Alessio's POVI used to think love was a lie people told each other until it became inconvenient to keep telling it. I built an entire life around that belief without even realizing I'd done it — every wall, every careful distance, every promise to myself that I would never be the man standing in a doorway watching someone he loved decide he wasn't worth staying for. I watched my mother walk away when I was twelve years old, and I decided, with the particular certainty only a child can manage, that I would never again let anyone hold that kind of power over me.Then Rhaena appeared, and every rule I'd built my life around started quietly falling apart, piece by piece, long before I was willing to admit it.Tonight, standing in the doorway of our kitchen, watching flour dust catch gold in the last of the evening light, watching my father bounce our son on his hip while Rhaena's mother laughs at something Luca has said that none of us can quite decipher, I find it almost impossible to r
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 196
Rhaena’s POVI watched the two of them for a moment — Alessio bouncing Luca gently on his hip, murmuring something low and teasing that made our son shriek with laughter, that same easy, unguarded joy that had taken root in this house somewhere over the past three years and never left — and felt that same quiet disbelief settle over me that I still hadn't quite gotten used to. That we'd built this. That some tiny, secret beginning had already been growing inside me the very night we decided, half-terrified and half-hopeful, to stay in Italy for good, as if some part of the universe had made up its mind about our future before we'd even finished choosing it ourselves."How was Milan?" I asked, wiping my hands on a dish towel and stepping closer to press a kiss to Alessio's jaw, the only part of him not currently covered in flour."Long," he admitted, tilting his head to catch my mouth properly instead, quick and warm. "But better, now that I'm here."Luca, apparently unwilling to be le
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 195
Rhaena’s POVThree Years LaterThe kitchen smelled like tomatoes and basil and the faint sweetness of the bread I'd left rising on the counter that morning, and I was elbow-deep in flour, laughing at myself for the mess I'd already made, when Luca toddled over from where he'd been "helping" me stack measuring cups into a very unstable tower, both hands already reaching up toward my leg."Mommy," he said, tugging at my apron, "up.""You've got flour hands," I warned, crouching down anyway despite the mess on my own fingers, scooping him up onto my hip. He was getting heavier by the week, solid and sturdy in a way that still caught me off guard sometimes, like my body hadn't quite finished updating its memory of how big he'd gotten. He immediately grabbed a fistful of my hair and examined it with great seriousness, the way he examined most things these days, like the whole world was a puzzle he'd been personally assigned to solve.He had Alessio's eyes — green, bright, startlingly clear
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 194
Rhaena’s POVThere was a beat of silence on the other end of the call. My mother's expression shifted through several things at once — surprise, something that looked briefly like worry, and then, before either of us could rush to explain further, something that settled into warmth."Permanently," she repeated softly, like she was testing the shape of the word."I'm going to take over the Milan branch," Alessio continued, his voice steady, sure. "Dad, I know that's not what we originally planned, but the branch needs someone, and I think I can actually make something of it. I'll fly back for board meetings, for anything that needs me in New York. But this is where we want to build our life."Sandro was quiet for a moment, studying us both through the screen in that careful way he had, the same way he'd studied us across the dinner table the night he told us people would talk and asked if we were strong enough to withstand it. I braced myself, half expecting questions, hesitation, some
CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1 Chapter 193
Rhaena’s POVHe shifted, pulling me fully against him again, his hand splayed warm against my lower back."I've thought about waking up every morning to this view," he continued, his voice dropping lower, softer. "To you, in this bed, in this light. I've thought about us growing old in this villa. I've thought about it so much, Rhaena, that some nights I lie awake next to you just imagining it — imagining an entire life here that neither of us has to explain or apologize for to anyone."Something warm and overwhelming rose up in my chest, pressing against my ribs until it felt like I might actually cry from the sheer relief of hearing him say all of this out loud, like he'd been quietly building a whole future in his head that matched, almost perfectly, the shape of the one I'd been too afraid to imagine for myself."We would live a beautiful life here," he said, smiling now, more openly, his thumb tracing slow circles against my hip. "Just the two of us. No hiding. No pretending. Jus
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