TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
What he got from Cheryl was different from what he’d ever got from anyone else, and for the time being that was what he wanted.
And when, upon their arrival at the crowded opera house, Valentina chose to sweep dramatically up to him, Nikolas saw no reason to change his mind. Voluptuous in dark red satin, her lush brunette locks glossy and richly colored, rubies heaving on the swell of her exposed breasts, Valentina launched into voluble Italian—a tirade of reproach and flattery. Nikolas’s face closed.
“Valentina,” he said in both acknowledgment and dismissal, and moved on, leaving her seething behind him.