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MARRYING MY BEST FRIEND'S FIANCEE Chapter 298
"What the hell do you want?" Elmo sneered out the words, contempt blazing in his eyes as he stared at the person he hated most in the world. "Who let you in?"Audrey let me up; she still remembers me. Maya flicked back her dark curls and strode across his office as if she owned it. I thought we should clear the air..."Clear the air?" Elmo spat. "The air stinks when you’re here." The stench of you makes me—’"Better out than in!" Maya’s red lips smiled sweetly at him. "I saw Brianna on the news—she’s good, I have to admit that." "When she sets her mind on something, she always gives it her best."‘What?’ Elmo snapped, then shook his head—because he didn’t want to hear it, didn’t need to hear it, and didn’t want to be in the same room as Maya for even a second. "Get out, Maya—you make me sick.""Did you fund her lawyers, Elmo?"‘Lawyers?’ Narrowed eyes watched his smudge of a frown appear. "I don’t know what you’re talking about.""You mean she didn’t tell you?" Did sweet little Briann
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As soon as she walked into his office, Brianna realized he couldn’t have heard her knock. knew, somehow, that she was glimpsing a side of Elmo Nicoli that he would prefer no one, not even his lover, to see.His head was in his hands, his shoulders slumped, and his complexion was grey beneath his fingers. She should turn, Brianna thought, walk out and knock again, saving them both the embarrassment of explanations. But in that frozen second, he looked up.‘I’m sorry…’ She spilled the words out. "What I said to the press"—I know it was indiscreet; I know I should have called you straight after. I was just so embarrassed...His expression gave her nothing, no clue at all, and even though he was looking at her, it was as if he was looking straight through her—as if he wasn’t even hearing her."I was just put on the spot." I knew how important it was that it didn’t come out about Evaristo—what it would do to him if there was even a hint of an affair...The clap of his hands was like the cr
MARRYING MY BEST FRIEND'S FIANCEE Chapter 300
What the hell had he done?Elmo paced the lobby, his hand clamped over his mouth, his breath hyperventilating into his hand, as his staff watched on bemused. Dylan was the only one with the nerve to approach him."Is everything okay, sir?"He didn’t answer—I didn't even hear him. His mind was with Brianna, hating what he’d done to her. He could see her in his mind’s eye, standing frozen as he’d shamed and humiliated her—and for what?Because once she’d wanted him?Because all this time she’d loved him?It was like an axe splitting his skull open—and he hated himself more as he remembered that night they’d first met. Hell, if he’d had a photo of her, if she’d been in a magazine...Maya was poison—she twisted things, blurred the truth—and she wasn’t Brianna.Just as he wasn’t Elpido, so Maya wasn’t Brianna.sweet, trusting Brianna—which she was.She was!He trusted her. For the first time in the longest time, he trusted someone—actually believed in someone—and it truly terrified him.‘S
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Only one man could literally stop her heart as she walked into the hotel bar and saw him sitting there. Only one man she’d actually have done this for—whether it made her brave or stupid that when he’d called her and asked that they might meet, she’d agreed.For closure.closure for him as much as for her.‘Thank you.’ It was impossible to look him in the eye when he greeted her—impossible, because if she did, she’d start crying. "Thank you for coming."‘It’s fine.’ She’d insisted they meet in the bar, unable to face his office. I’m sorry it’s so public. I just couldn’t face the...She couldn’t even say it—she couldn't stand to go back to the office where it had all happened.Elmo understood. "I know how you feel.""I know you do." She gave a tight smile, because he must—because she didn’t actually know how he did it, how he sat in the same office not just where Gilberto had been so vile but where he’d fought so bitterly with Elpido.why he put himself through it.Even if Brianna coul
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"That’s when he hit you?""He went crazy... said that I had always been the better one, the older one, the smarter one, that I had screwed up his life, that I had taken everything good from him, and now I was taking the woman he loved, that I’d humiliated him over and over... He pinched the bridge of his nose and screwed his eyes closed as he relieved that hell. "He said quite a lot more than just that.""I’m sure he did."Then he stormed off. And I went to the hospital to get stitched.Brianna watched, tears streaming down her face, as he gagged out an expletive, and this strongest of men almost fell apart.And for the first time, he faced it.As if a fist had gone into his stomach, he let out a shudder of breath, almost doubling up in agony—and he told her. Or did he? Because he truly didn’t know if he was talking about it or living it again. At that point he wasn’t sitting with Brianna; he was backpacing in that hospital cubicle, a wad of gauze pressed to his cheek, so incredibly a
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She watched his frown and saw the confusion in his tired eyes."Maya’s a liar—we both know that," Brianna spat, furious not with him but for him. No, she conceded, her mind racing at a million miles an hour, furious with him too—for the agony, for the self-infliction of such pain, for such guilt. "And you’re a bloody liar, Elmo, and you’re still making excuses for Elpido, still cleaning up the mess he made."She stood up, hardly able to believe what she was doing—that she was walking out, walking out when perhaps he needed her the most, that she was furious when perhaps he needed calm. But she couldn’t help it—she couldn't contain what she was feeling within the parameters that might be better."After everything that’s happened, after all I’ve been through—with you, for you—you can sit there and look me in the eye and bloody well lie to me." If, after all that, you can still hold back the most essential piece of yourself, then—you know what? I don’t actually want the rest.‘Brianna!’
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Urgent, frantic sex was a great balm. His hands were pushing up her skirt even as hers grappled with his buckle. His mouth was hot on her neck, biting, bruising, and thrilling. Lowering her to the floor, he was pushing her but somehow supporting her, tearing at her stockings and her pants, and Brianna’s want was as prevalent as his. Pushing down his trousers and feeling his taut buttocks, she was holding him, holding the bit of him that she needed, wanted, and adored—and it was beautiful—and it belonged inside her.With each delicious thrust he called out her name, and somehow he was kissing her too, kissing her, licking her. His shoulders were over her, and she was watching him, watching him and trying to capture him, to remember this for ever—and he had held back before, because even if the sex had been wonderful, this was it—this wasn’t him and her, it was them, almost one person, because even if the sex had been wonderful, this was it—this wasn't him and her, it was them, almost o
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"Do you want me to say something?" Brianna offered as Elmo called for the bill."The food was fantastic," Elmo said. "Let’s not make a fuss."But every time we come here, they get it wrong! I specifically ordered the mushroom risotto, and we got vegetarian arranchini.Elmo peeled off another note and added it to his already generous tip. They were sitting in one of the smartest cafés in Rome, and the waiter had in fact done an amazing job—deciphering somehow, from Brianna’s truly appalling Italian, that they wanted rice and vegetables.It was bad.Even after a year of flying between two amazing cities—and having a son who was born here in Rome—Brianna’s mastery of the language was poor, to say the least. But her Italian was delivered with such flair, such passion and enthusiasm, and such a warm, generous smile that no one—not the doctors, nor the midwives, nor the hotel staff, or even a waiter—had the heart to tell her."Che era meraviglioso—grazie." Brianna beamed at the bemused wait
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