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  They managed to undress, and then they fell into bed and lost themselves in each other’s arms for the next few hours. Lucia brought dinner to the room, leaving it outside the door on a serving cart, and they sat on the private terrace overlooking the valley and ate. Faith was wearing a sheet and Renzo had slipped into a pair of briefs. It was as dressed as they would be for the next few days.

  Renzo looked over from where he sat across from her in the evening light and smiled. “I love you, Signora D’Angeli,” he said. “This is how I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

  Faith laughed. “I love you too, Renzo. But you do have a very successful company to run.”

  He sighed. “And I need a new PA. I am not looking forward to finding one to replace you.”

  Faith bristled. “Replace me? I hardly think so, mister. You can’t live without me, remember?”

  “No,” he said, smiling. “I can’t. But you are my wife, not my PA. You won’t always want to schedule my appointments and type my correspondence.”

  “I’m not particularly fond of typing correspondence,” she admitted.

  He grasped her hand and tugged her into his lap. The sheet slipped down her bosom, but she hardly cared, especially when his eyes flared with heat.

  “You can be my PA as long as you want,” he said. “And when it’s time to quit, you can interview the candidates if you like.”

  She put her arms around his neck and pressed herself closer to him. Oh, she was shameless when it came to wanting her gorgeous husband. “Since I’m the expert, yes. I would like that.”

  “There is only one condition,” he said.

  She reared back to look down at him. “What?”

  “If I want you naked in my office, you have to comply.”

  Faith laughed. “What if I want you naked in your office? Does that work, too?”

  She could feel him growing hard beneath her, and her body answered with a surge of heat between her thighs.

  “What do you think?” he asked.

  She wrapped her arms around his neck. “I think I’m going to enjoy working with you.”

  He kissed her hard, and then carried her into the bedroom. When they were entwined on the mattress, when he was deep inside her and she was begging him for more, he stopped and held still until her eyes opened.

  “What is wrong, Renzo?”

  He smiled. It was so full of tenderness and love that it made her heart ache. “Nothing is wrong,” he said. “In fact, everything is right.”

  And it was. Faith knew that their lives together would be full and complete. They had each other, they had Lola—and several other stray cats that ended up making their way to the villa—and, nine months later, they had a screaming baby who refused to sleep through the night for at least a year.

  It was chaos, but it was their chaos. And they wouldn’t have it any other way.

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  First published in Great Britain 2011

  by Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited.

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  © Lynn Raye Harris 2012

  ISBN: 978-1-408-97421-6

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Excerpt

  About the Author

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Epilogue

  Copyright