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for a weekend. Needing the escape, Lily had jumped on the idea.
She thought she was going to spend a few days with her friend and get to know
Jason Mo ntgomery, the man Minka hooked up with, much
to Lily’s pleasure.
    Instead, she got blindsided by Adam. From the moment he
touched the engagement ring hanging around her neck, he’d penetrated her walls,
forced out the reason for her sadness, then proceeded t o tease her to laughter. However, it wasn’t until he found her crying in
the middle of the night on Jason’s private beach did she truly meet Adam
Aquilani.
    “Liliana,” his voice echoed against the
crashing waves of the ocean.
    She turned and came face to fac e with Adam. A cool breeze rolled off the water and blew
thick, black hair away from his face. The full moon illuminated his features.
Dark eyes searched hers with no trace of the teasing laughter she’d endured
from him all day.
    “It’s his loss, you know,” he offered. “He doesn’t deserve your tears.”
    Pain and humiliation swept over her and
she let out a bitter chuckle. “Save the flirting for tomorrow. I can’t do the
bantering right now.”
    With a smile, he took a few steps
closer. One long finger touched the r ing then moved
up to her cheek and brushed away a tear. He cupped her face, his thumbs
caressing her skin. Perhaps it was that he found her at a low point in her
life, but his touch affected her. It made her want to be kissed and touched,
even if common se nse told her everything about him
was wrong for her. He was a bachelor, a playboy who spent half of his time in
Italy or across the continents racing cars. And way outside her usual dating
circle.
    “Let’s go inside,” he said in a low
voice.
    Lily noticed th e
tightness in his voice. Not that it surprised her. Since the moment they’d met,
Adam made it clear he wanted to sleep with her. And what if she gave in to the
idea? As much as she’d sworn off men, his blunt offer to rock her world stayed
with her all day . She, too felt the attraction.
    Only she was too logical, too rational
to give in to a momentary attraction. She knew the hottest flames burned the
fastest and she would be yesterday’s trick as soon as the sun came up. Because
of that she fought the tempta tion to give in to the
flirtation, the teasing. But in private, she wondered how his lips would feel
against her own. His hands against her skin, exploring.
    “Kiss me,” she breathed.
    She heard his quick inhale and for a
split second the surprise registered on his handsome
face.
    “You’re vulnerable right now.”
    He stood before her like a book of
poetry. She was the starving artist, dying to read all the beautiful words
written into his infinite space. “But you want to.” And so did she .
    He shook his head and too k her hand in his. But she could tell he was fighting the
temptation. “Not like this. When we kiss, I want you to only want to kiss me.
Not when you are crying over some loser who couldn’t keep his dick in his
pants.”
    “And you could?”
    With their eyes locke d onto one another, he answered without hesitation. “When I
make a promise, I mean it.”
    Somehow, she believed him. Lily let out
a sigh. If there was a man who could make her forget and take away her pain, at
least temporarily, it would be this gorgeous man standing here with her. Commitment wasn’t in his vocabulary; good thing she
wasn’t looking for one. The last two days he had openly flirted with her, and
now that she was throwing herself at him, he was suddenly making sense.
    She stepped out of his touch and walked back toward the ocean, where she’d spent the
last hour contemplating how to move on from the pain, the familiarity. For
three years Nate had been a part of her life; he’d even moved in to her condo.
They’d talked about babies, building a future together
as husband and wife.
    Some distance away, Lily sat on the cool
wet sand. She brought her legs to her chest, leaned her chin against her knees
and