Don Alessandro's Obsession
My pulse stuttered as memories flickered—his temper, his hands, the way he had once looked at me with nothing but hate.
And yet, under it all, the spark of something hotter, something that made my skin flush no matter how much I wanted to deny it.
“I said don’t,” I whispered.
“And I said relax.” His voice was steel wrapped in velvet. To anyone watching, it looked like a husband touching his wife casually. But I felt threatened in every brush of his thumb.
Rosario ran back, arms wide. “Papà, Mamma, come see the fish!”
Alessandro removed his hand, finally, but his dark eyes stayed locked on mine.
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