The Italians: Luca, Marco and Alessandro: Between the Italian's Sheets / The Moretti Heir / Alessandro and the Cheery Nanny

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Natalie Anderson

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2019

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He lifted his hand, gently stroked down her arm to clasp her wrist. ‘Play the piano for me.’

Music—to soothe the savage breast and the tortured soul? Yes, she would play for him, play for them both.

As he followed her back to the lounge he unzipped her dress. It dropped and she walked right out of it. Embracing the passion still between them, she shimmied out of her knickers as well—naked completely now except for the diamond-encrusted chain that encircled her wrist. If it was going to finish soon, then she was determined to make the most of every moment.

She sat, fingers working over the keys, watching him as he walked round the piano.

‘You could have been great.’ He unbuttoned his shirt and shrugged it off.

‘Maybe.’ She knew it was possible. ‘But at what price? Years and years of nothing but hard work, giving up so much for such a large battle. Even then the chances of making it are so slim. There were other things I wanted to do with my life.’

‘Other things you had to do,’ he argued. ‘You had the option taken from you.’

‘Yes,’ she acknowledged. ‘But what’s life for if not to be shared with friends and family?’

‘But to give up your own dreams.’ He shook his head. ‘It’s wrong.’

He kicked off his shoes. ‘My mother had dreams of performing, but my father decreed that no wife of his would ever work. I think it was the frustration that ate her up from the inside and the bitterness that caused the cancer. You should never give up your dreams, Emily.’

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