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  Alejandro fiercely returned that gaze. ‘They are truly beautiful, Brynne, but not as beautiful, or courageous, as their mother!’ He shook his head. ‘I could not bear to see you suffer so ever again!’

  Brynne laughed. ‘Childbirth isn’t suffering, my love,’ she assured softly.

  A year of marriage had given them a bond of love so deep that it could never, ever be broken, only added to. As the birth of their daughters had done. They had become Michael’s parents too, and had been absorbed into Alejandro’s loving family as he had been accepted into her own family. They had delighted in each new discovery about each other.

  Brynne reached up and touched her husband’s cheek, smoothing away the worry and strain he had suffered as he had held her hand through the hours of childbirth. ‘I love you, Alejandro,’ she told him earnestly. ‘Enough and more to have half a dozen babies—’

  ‘Half a dozen!’ Alejandro cut in forcefully, his expression only relaxing as he saw how she was teasing him, this beautiful woman he loved to distraction. ‘Maybe two more,’ he countered.

  Brynne laughed softly. ‘Maybe three…?’

  Maybe three, he conceded achingly, knowing there was nothing he could deny this woman who meant more to him than life itself.

  His wife.

  The mother of his children. All his children. However many they might have.

  The woman who loved him more than he had ever thought it possible to be loved.

  But most of all, the woman that he would love, fiercely, passionately, beyond life itself…

  ISBN: 978-1-4268-2756-3

  THE MEDITERRANEAN MILLIONAIRE’S RELUCTANT MISTRESS

  First North American Publication 2009.

  Copyright © 2007 by Carole Mortimer.

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