Chapter 19

Some minutes later, Selena caught an accidental glimpse of herself in the majestic mirror in her bedroom. Dismayed, rudely recalled to reality, she stared at her hectically flushed cheeks and swollen mouth. She looked like a shameless whore. Air cooled her spine as Alejandro ran down the zip on her dress and inched it off her shoulders.

‘I feel like a slut...’ she gasped strickenly.

Alejandro spun her round, simmering dark eyes pinned to her unhappy face. ‘That’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard, my beauty,’ he censured. ‘I want you and you want me. What could be more natural than the desire to make love?’

A half dozen rude retorts hovered on the edge of Selena’s mind but she kept them there, consciously protecting herself from a pointless outburst that would only upset her more. She was having an affair, nothing more or less, she told herself squarely. Hadn’t she always been a very practical person? Flights of fancy and histrionics were not for her. She would live only in the