ログインI wanted him, desperately. It was the first time I had ever craved someone so intensely, and I didn’t care how reckless it made me. Maybe this was what they meant by love at first sight. When Camille Barone first lays eyes on Aurelio Donzel, she falls hard. Despite knowing he’s married, she’s drawn to him with an obsession that burns hotter than reason. Undeterred by his coldness, Camille pursues him relentlessly, doing everything she can to make him see her, to make him feel what she feels. But love isn’t always something you can chase. And some people, no matter how badly you want them, some people aren’t meant to be yours. Aurelio surrenders to temptation and risks his marriage for a moment of forbidden passion?. But Camille learns that some hearts simply aren’t meant to be won.
もっと見るCAMILLECharles de Gaulle was everything I remembered and nothing like I expected.I had been to Paris once as a child, young enough that most of it lived in my memory as impressions more than details, the smell of something sweet near a market, the colour of a bridge, my mother's hand in mine on a crowded street. I had wanted to come back for years and had never found the reason or the right moment.The right moment had apparently been a Tuesday morning over breakfast in Aurelio's dining room.I pressed my face closer to the window as we descended and watched the city arrange itself below us, grey and gold in the afternoon light, the Seine cutting through it like something deliberate, and I felt that familiar feeling of excitement of waiting for something for a long time and finally having it.Aurelio was watching me from across the cabin."Put this on before we land," he said, and held out a face mask.I took it. "Why?""Reporters," he said simply. "Charles de Gaulle attracts them
AURELIOI woke up before she did.I was a light sleeper by habit, had been since my early thirties when the weight of running a company had trained me to wake at the smallest sound, but somewhere between the soup and her hand in my hair I had gone under completely and slept the kind of sleep that doesn't care what time it is.I lay still for a moment, orienting myself.The room was grey with early morning light, quiet except for the sound of her breathing, and Camille was pressed against my side with her face turned into my shoulder and one hand flat against my chest, completely and entirely asleep.I looked at her.I thought about yesterday, about how it had started, the dinner and the argument in this room and her face when she had said *I'm your mistress* with that particular steadiness that was worse than if she had shouted it. I thought about the road at two in the morning, her headlights behind my car, the fact that she had come without making me ask twice.Yesterday had starte
AURELIO"I'm sorry, Aurelio."She said it quietly, and then she moved to leave.I caught her wrist before I had fully decided to.She stopped.I stood up from the edge of the bed slowly, and she turned to look at me with those eyes that were trying very hard to be neutral and not quite managing it. I could see it, the quiet sadness sitting in them, the thing she had been carrying all evening and had not once complained about.I brought my hand to her face.She went still.I traced her jaw with my thumb, slowly, just that, just my hand on her face in the quiet of the room, and I watched something in her expression shift the way it always did when I touched her gently, like she hadn't expected it and didn't know what to do with it.I kissed her.Soft and with no urgency behind it, no pull toward anything else, just my mouth on hers, asking nothing, just there.I pulled back."Stay," I said.She looked at me."Aurelio…."I kissed her again before she could finish it, slower this time, m
CAMILLEI didn't cry until I got home.I held it together the whole drive back, hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, breathing through my nose steadily so as not to choke on tears, trying to convince myself that I was fine. I gave myself that much, because I deserved it and needed to get home first.I sat on the edge of my bed and took off my shoe, and it finally came, I broke down into tears.Not loudly. I never cry loudly, I pressed my hands over my face and I cried the way I always do, quietly, like even the crying was something I had to keep to myself, and I let all the things I had been holding back at that dinner table finally come out.I cried because I had stood in front of that mirror feeling so good about myself, so sure, and then I had sat at that table for almost an hour and he had looked right through me like I wasn't there, like I had dressed up and driven over and walked into his house for nothing.I cried because of the way he admitted the obvious truth which should
CAMILLE I stared at my phone, my heart hammering against my ribs as I watched the message show as *read*.He'd seen it.The photo of me in nothing but black lace, standing in my bathroom like some kind of temptress, like I had no idea what I was doing. My hands were shaking as I set the phone dow
AURELIOThe taste of Camille's lips lingered on mine like a brand.I'd kissed her in front of everyone, the cameras, the reporters, Beatrice, her father, and I didn't regret a single second of it. I had done it perfectly so nobody saw it, but nothing would compare to the way Camille had frozen aga
CAMILLEThe knock came three days later.I was still in bed, staring at the ceiling and replaying that night with Aurelio on an endless loop. The want in his eyes, the prayer in his voice when he said my name, the way Keisha had looked at me like I'd lost my mind when I agreed to talk to him.Mayb
CAMILLE "May I sit?"Aurelio's voice was calm, too calm, it was the kind of calm that came before a storm, before everything shattered into pieces you could never put back together.I couldn't breathe, couldn't think, it was like my entire body had gone rigid, every muscle locked in place as I sta
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