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his interest in Nathalie but because he’d seen the pain in Emile’s eyes when he’d spoken of his own father.
    Antonio understood where Emile had been coming from. He knew too that pride was an important commodity. At Lorenzo’s knee he’d grown up learning that the Moretti name was the most important thing that he, Antonio, had inherited.
    “What did you tell your family you were doing tonight?” he asked to distract himself from the feel of her hands on his body.
    “I told them I needed the night alone to prepare your terms.” She hesitated, then added, “I don’t want you to think that lying is a habit of mine.”
    “I don’t,” he said. He had a sense that Nathalie was the type of woman who prided herself on doing what was necessary. He knew from his own experiences in life that sometimes meant white lies.
    “You’re a grown woman. I doubt your sister and your father are your keepers.”
    She laughed, the sounds soft and melodious in his ear. He liked riding like this. It had been a gamble to take her out of Milan where the deck was definitely stacked in his favor. But he had guessed that she needed to see more of the man he was than just the Moretti Motors company man.
    He certainly wanted to see more of Nathalie. He wanted to see the part of her that wasn’t tied to Vallerio Inc.
    “My father still thinks of us as his little girls when we are in a situation like this. And he feels so tied to the Moretti Motors issue that he can’t let me handle it.”
    “I can understand that.”
    “I bet you can’t. Isn’t it different for men? I mean your parents don’t treat you like a boy, do they?”
    He thought about that for a moment. His mother always did things for him that she’d done when he was little. Silly things like making sure his favorite soft drink was stocked in the house and sending him her lasagna for dinner once a week…
    “I think it’s different. My brothers and I are more interested in business than our father was, but I know he worries when we travel a lot. And my mother…well, she just mothers us.”
    Nathalie stroked her hand down his chest, resting her hand on his thigh. “It is different. My dad thinks I’m twelve.”
    Antonio laughed, taking her hand in his. “You are definitely not twelve.”
    “Definitely.”
    He noticed she’d neatly turned the subject away from business, which suited him. The last thing he wanted to do was have Moretti Motors be between them tonight. He wanted them to just be Antonio and Nathalie.
    Two lovers who were enjoying the romance of this beautiful spring evening in the countryside.
    “What are you thinking?” she asked.
    He shrugged and turned off the motorway and onto a small road that curved around the lake to where his family’s summer home was.
    “That I’m glad you took a chance on me tonight.”
    “Is that what I’m doing?”
    “Aren’t you?” he asked, very aware that Nathalie could be playing a game with him. Hell, she probably was. All’s fair, he reminded himself.
    Though he had set out to seduce her with the romance of the evening and the beauty of his home on Lake Como, he realized that he had to be careful not to be seduced himself, because there was something about Nathalie tonight. Maybe it was the way her curves pressed against his back and the way her arms wrapped around his chest as he maneuvered the bike through the curves and turns of the road, or maybe it was something more.
    “Are we close to your house? I read somewhere…”
    “What?”
    “Something very silly.”
    “If you read it I doubt it is all that silly.”
    “Well, this is. I was going to say I heard that celebrities lived in the area.”
    The comment was out of character for the woman he’d come to know in the boardroom. “My brother is considered a celebrity in some circles.”
    “Dominic?”
    “Marco. You must know drivers too, right? Vallerio Incorporated is still very involved in the racing world.”
    “That is true,” she said. “We