Master Teacher Pleasure Pleasure

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Master of pleasure
Master of pleasure
Penny Jordan
Master of Pleasure (2007)
Original title: Master of Pleasure (2006)
Publisher: Harlequin Ibrica
Stamp / Collection: Bianca 1787
Genre: Contemporary
Starring: Gabriel Calbrini and Sasha
Plot:
That millionaire had taken to bed ... for revenge
Ten years ago he had left the handsome Sasha
Gabriel Calbrini millionaire ... and he had not forgiven
it. Now she was a widow and could not believe that Gabriel was the
heir to the fortune of her late husband ... and tutor
his two sons. His life was completely in their
Gabriel hands ... and wanted revenge.
The love that Sasha had felt for Gabriel had been to
almost destroyed, so I could not fall back on their
arms ... for it to be very persuasive. There was too much
at stake ... and something that Gabriel ever needed to know.
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Penny Jordan - Master of pleasure
Chapter 1
Sasha turned to look at her twin sons, frolicking in the

beach like two puppies, fighting and jumping among the waves
They bathed the lonely coast of Sardinia.
'She Is warned -Les care, and addressing the greatest added
Sam, do not be rough.
We're playing the bandits He justified it.
That was his favorite game that summer, since Giuseppe, the
brother of Mary who worked in the kitchen of the small hotel
part of the chain of the late husband of Sasha, they had
told stories of the island and its legendary bandits.
The children had inherited the dark, thick, silky hair and skin
olive his father. It only had the color of the eyes,
He betrayed his dual nationality. Eyes the color of the sea, passing
from blue to green depending on the light that is reflected in them.
I told you I would release Nico laughed with skill desasindose
his brother's arm.
'Be careful with the rocks and pond protested Sasha
while Sam was launched against Nico, knocking. They both laughed and
They rolled on the sand.
Look, Sam, a star chirping Nico shouted, and in a flash it
They crouched next to each other to observe a small marine pond
-. Look, Mom!
Obedient, Sasha went to his sons and knelt between them
surrounding them with arms.
Come, let -inst Sam Nico, boring and pond and
inhabitants. Remember I'm the boss of the bandits.
"Children," Sasha thought wistfully. But his heart was filled with
love and pride seeing them run to a safer part of the beach.
While paying attention turned to look at the hotel, located on
a craggy promontory. This was, in his opinion, the prettiest of all
Hotels that had possessed her late husband. As a wedding gift he
She had given him carte blanche in its renovation and refurbishment. The
He spent money she had been richly rewarded by the
praises guests returning again and again and praised their
innovative ideas and their determination to maintain the exclusivity of
hotel.
But the death Carlo, Sasha discovered with astonishment that the rest of the
hotels in the group did not enjoy the same success than this. Without her
know, Carlo had contracted huge debts in order to maintain
business afloat, and he had used the hotel as a guarantee of the
loans. Had made bad choices, perhaps because the
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Carlo frail. Her husband had been a kind man,
generous and affectionate, but he had not trusted her with regard to their
financial matters. For Carlo, she was someone to protect and pamper,
and not an equal.
They had met in the Caribbean, where Carlo was studying
possibility of acquiring a chain hotel. Now, in addition to suffering the
pain of losing him, had to accept the fact that, from one day to
morning, had ceased to be the wife of a rich man

become a penniless widow. Less than a week later
Carlo's death, his accountant told Sasha that her husband was
vast sums, millions in fact, a private investor and
Anonymous who had requested financial assistance And though she had
financial advisers begged them to find a way to make
she could stay with this hotel, they said that the investor
Private unwilling to enter under any circumstances.
Sasha looked at their children. They were going to miss Sardinia and
they had spent wonderful summers there, but would take much
more missing her father. Although it had been an elderly parent,
unable to join games of his energetic children, loved them, and they
They adored him. On his deathbed, Carlo had made him promise to
Sasha would not forget the importance of the Sardinian heritage of the twins.
Remember he had said wearily that everything I've done
I did it for love children and you.
Sasha owed both Carlo ... He had given everything. It had
taken over the hurt and needy girl that she was then, and based
love and understanding, had healed their wounds. He had made gifts
that were priceless: pride, emotional independence, ability
giving and receiving a healthy love, devoid of destructive dependency. To
she was much more than just a husband.
His eyes flashed with determination acquiring the dark tone
interior of an emerald. He had been poor before, and had survived.
Of course I had not had to take responsibility for two children. That
morning he had received an email from the college of
boys, which reminded him discreetly to be paid by the new
quarter. The last thing he wanted to do was cause more disruption to their
separating them young lives from a school in which they were so happy.
Sasha looked Never had wanted diamond jewelry rings
faces; Carlo was the one who had committed to buy them.
He decided he had to sell. At least the kids had nowhere
live during the summer holidays. It was humiliating for her
lawyers beg to be let Carlo stay there until
start school in September. Sasha was grateful when
he was told that he had been granted his wish. His own childhood had
been so lacking in love and security that when you discovered
I was pregnant she promised herself that her children never
They would have to suffer as she had suffered. Therefore ...
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Sasha looked at their children. Yes, Carlo had managed to heal
many of his wounds; all but one. A sentimental wound,
persistent, which had not yet healed.
The concern in recent months had consumed leaving,
in his view, too thin. The wristwatch danced it in
wrist while the hair was collected and held it with his thin
hand.
I was eighteen when she married Carlo, and nineteen when
born children. Sasha, a girl who was untrained but list
he accepted the marriage proposal by Carlo even though he was much

her senior. Their marriage had given her everything she ever had
He had, not just in terms of economic security. Carlo he had
brought stability and a secure environment.
She had done her best to return his kindness, and see the
Carlo face the first time he saw the twins in the cradles of
exclusive private hospital where she gave birth made him understand that he
He had given her husband a gift that was priceless.
Look, mom.
Sasha obediently looked at the children, who did cartwheels.
Someday, she said, she would ask not look much. But not yet
They were aware of what was in them slope. With some children as
restless and intelligent at times it was hard not to be overprotective, typical
mother sees danger where children are only possibilities for adventure.
'How nice! she conceded.
Look, we know handstands Sam said proudly.
They were lithe and corpulent, very high for his nine year old boys.
'I have given a strong kids, Sasha -the praised Carlo
often. She smiled, remembering those words. Their marriage had him
tried time and space to stop being the girl who
he had been and become the woman she was now. A ray of sun
He reflected in its fine wedding ring while being rotated to look again
The hotel was erected on the rocks.
She and her husband had traveled the world visiting the chain
small and exclusive hotels that he owned, but his favorite among
all of them was that of Sardinia. It was originally a residence
private, owned by a cousin of Carlo that at death, was left in
heritage. Carlo promised himself keep forever.

Gabriel, standing in the shadow of the rocks, lowered his eyes to the beach.
He twisted his mouth in a gesture of contempt.
He wondered how she would feel, now that he knew the destination
had turned against him and that the security he had bought with his
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body would not last a lifetime. Now I knew there would be a
rich and surrounded by comforts widow.
As for the children ... He felt the gall run inside,
tearing inside. Them had made him remember his own childhood
here in Sardinia. How could I ever forget the cruel and tough childhood that
He had played live? At the age of these two children he had to
work very hard. The abuses and insults he had received it
taught to dodge the blows of life. It had been an unwanted child.
Rejected by his wealthy mother's family and abandoned by his father,
he grew up with a foster family. As a child, Gabriel recalled bitterly,
He had spent more nights sleeping outdoors with animals
the farm inside the house with the family, which knew the contempt
he felt his mother's family for him.
Gabriel thought a childhood like that strengthens or spoiled
the human spirit and, if applicable, had hardened to make it
steel. He had never allowed nor allow anyone parted company with him
path he had chosen, or anyone come between him and his

determination to rise above those who had
I despised.
His maternal grandfather was the patriarch of one of the families more
rich and powerful of Sardinia. On the Calbrini was
inextricably linked to the island. It was a very family
proud and divided by hatred, betrayal and revenge.
Her mother had been an only child. At eighteen she left home
fleeing the marriage her father had arranged for her, and
He married a young farmer, poor but handsome than he had believed
love.
That stubborn and spoiled girl took less than a year to realize
I had made a mistake and that she hated her husband almost as much
as poverty in which they lived. But by then it was already born
Gabriel. She begged her father to forgive and allowed to return to
home. He consented, provided to divorce her husband and
leave the boy with his father. According to stories told him
Gabriel boy, his mother did not think twice.
His grandfather gave him a lot of money to father
Gabriel assuming that the single payment exempt family
Calbrini harmless with the fruit of then extinct
marriage.
Gabriel's father, looking more money than had
never, left for Rome, leaving his three month old son in the care of a
cousin, who promised to send money for child support.
But once in Rome he met the woman who would become his
second wife, who did not understand why she had to carry a
child was not his, nor why it should waste your money
husband.
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Gabriel's adoptive parents turned to grandfather it. They were
poor and could not afford to feed a hungry child. Giorgio
Calbrini refused to help them. That boy meant nothing to him.
In addition, her daughter had remarried, this time with the man he
I had chosen for her, and hoped that soon give him a grandson
lineage demanding his pride.
But he did, and when Gabriel had ten years of age,
mother and her second husband was killed in the helicopter crash
They are traveling. Giorgio Calbrini had no choice but to settle
the only heir who had Gabriel.
Was an austere life devoid of love, Gabriel recalled,
with a grandfather who did not want him and despised the blood that had
He inherited from his father.
But at least, under the roof of his grandfather, he was well fed.
This sent him to the best schools and made sure he received the
necessary training so that, eventually, to succeed him as
Calbrini patriarch of the home. The truth was that his grandfather had
high hopes placed in him and he had made it clear many
times.
I'm doing this because I have no choice, because you're the only grandson
I bitterly, 'he had said on numerous occasions.
But Gabriel was determined to prove her
wrong. And not to win the love of his grandfather, since he did not believe
in love. I wanted to prove he was the best, the strongest. And that was
exactly what he did. At first, his grandfather refused to believe what
said their teachers about how much he knew about the financial world
and everything connected with it. But the truth was that when he was
twenties, had quadrupled the small amount of money your
grandfather had given him when he turned eighteen.
One day, three weeks after he turned twenty, his grandfather
He died suddenly, and Gabriel inherited his vast fortune and position. Those
Gabriel who said they would never be able to follow the steps of
old man had to swallow their words. He was a true Calbrini,
and he had a flair for business wiser if possible, than that of his
grandfather. But for him there were more important things in life than winning
money.
He had
the
need
of
be
a
man
invulnerable
sentimentally.
And that was exactly what had become mused.
Never let any woman refused as he had done his

mother without being punished.
Especially that woman.
Sasha Gabriel heard talking to their children. The breeze carried it on
sound of his voice, but not his words.
Sasha ... At twenty-five Gabriel was a millionaire. A man
rich he did not trust anyone and kept that women who chose
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to warm his bed were more than that simple bedfellows.
He had laid a set of rules, simple and non-negotiable, about
relations should be. Forbidden to talk about love, future or
commitment; unconditional loyalty to his person for the duration of the
relative and absolute respect for the principle of safe sex. And to
ensure that the final rule is not broke "accidentally
purpose "Gabriel took care of such things himself.
Over the years he had lived scenes of anger and bitterness
featuring hysterical women who believed wrongly
to make change. Those tears disappeared as if by
magic when Gabriel gave them a generous parting gift. His
mouth twisted in a cynical gesture. Was it surprising that he had
become a suspicious man and saber all, a man who
despised women? According to Gabriel, there was no woman
I could not buy. Her mother had shown him how was sex
female, and all the women he had had dealings from
then they had merely corroborate what he learned from his mother
when she left him for money.
That did not mean I did not enjoy the company of women
or rather the pleasure their bodies provided it. He had inherited
the appeal of his father, and find a woman willing to meet their
sexual needs had never been a problem.
Sam, do not go that far. Stay here, where I can see you this time, the words of Sasha came to him, since she had raised
his voice so that his son could hear. A beloved mother? Sasha?
He could not escape his past. He had gripped so tightly
I could almost feel physical pain.
After the death of his grandfather, had closed the awkward and lonely
house her grandfather had in Sardinia and had bought a yacht. As
real estate investor who was traveling suited him to discover possible
acquisitions, both material and sexual. And if a woman
invited to bed, why not I? Provided that it
understand that once the appetite satisfied, there was no room for her
in your life ...
At the age of twenty-five he had made the determination that
when the time came to pay a woman to give him a
heir a child and on which he would take care of entitlement
exclusive.
Gabriel looked at Sasha with cold contempt. It was only six weeks,
just after his thirty-fifth birthday, he had been with
the deathbed of her second cousin hearing how I begged Carlo,
to him, to help her two children, which is what Carlo loved more than
anything in the world.
The same breeze playing sensually with long mane
Sasha pulled back his own dark hair, exposing
a Roman typical Sardinian bone structure, a straight nose, a
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masculine traits reminiscent of Leonardo and some sculptures
Michelangelo, and muscles strong young man. Saracens
Sardinia had invaded centuries, leaving their mark on history
the island and its inhabitants through the women who had
taken and fertilized. Carlo I was the one who told him the legend that
Males born of such nations in their blood and physical strength
the legendary cruelty of their parents. Gabriel knew he had blood
Saracen in the veins, and that was demonstrated in their attitude to
life. He had no sympathy for those who betrayed him.
He studied the two children with watchful eyes of a deadly
eagle. Underprivileged children, adored by an old man and loving father.
How different his childhood. He thought about what he had Carlo
begged: to take care of the care of their two children, giving
understand that he did not trust his mother. On his deathbed, Carlo
finally he recognized that it was unreliable.
But the last words he spoke to Carlo Gabriel were on
Sasha.
You've got to understand that ... he told Sasha Gabriel.
His weakness prevented him from finishing the sentence, but was not necessary.
Gabriel
He knew everything there was to know about Sasha. Like her mother, she
I had abandoned. Remembering did nothing but exacerbate their
gloomy feelings. She had been the cause of an affront to their pride
and now it was time to collect the debts ...
The cry of protest from one of the twins made Sasha again
to them, anxious.
'Leave of pelearos, children.
Something, or rather, someone had come between the sun and her.
He placed his hand like a visor to see who it was.
There are moments in life that happen so quickly and slowly to the
Once that is impossible to ignore or forget. Sasha felt her stop
the heart, and then experienced a suffocating feeling
disbelief and horror, something so painful that even refused to try
I understand. He heard the dull thud of his heart in the distance,
as if it belonged to him, vaguely aware that the blood ran
fast through his veins, he is keeping it alive, feeling pain in every
nerve in his body. He was unable to say more than a word:
-Gabriel!
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Chapter 2
A single word, but so full of anger and horror that was
ringing in the air. Sasha turned her head to look at Gabriel while
I felt his pulse pounding.
-What Are you doing here? What do you want?
It was a mistake to ask that, as he warn panic
in his voice and he would realize that Sasha was trying to overcome
fear. He betrayed him how Gabriel's mouth twisted into
a cruel smirk, she remembered so well.
-what Do you think?
His voice sounded so sweet and soft as a lover's caress.
For a second, her body reacted to the memories it evoked. Of
soon returned to his seventeen years, when hid his suffering and
emotional deprivation under the guise of a confident woman. It had
removed provocative tiny miniskirt and top, and had blond hair
soaked after showering that Gabriel had made him take. He looked at her,
while she, overwhelmed by the feeling, knew first
once in their lives than it was physical desire. She wanted him, he wanted to
madness.
He did not want to return to the past, but it was too late. He remembered
impatience he had felt when, instead of waiting until he is
approached, she had pounced on him. He had held a
distance to study his naked body, which was already beginning
to provide visible signs of anxiety. Her breasts had hardened
only imagine the touch of his fingers, whose skin was hard, slightly
rough, the skin of a man who worked with their hands and not only
his brain. He had trembled with emotion as he irrepressible

He began to explore the shape of their breasts. The roughness of his erotic
touch made him suddenly aware of her own excitement, what
he was prepared, moist and tender than it was for the most part
close to your body. And, as if he had also warned Gabriel
He had begun to explore it with your hand, gently but
determination. When he allowed to stand in the bone protruding from his
hip, her, devoured by impatience, felt the need for a
more intimate touch. Was it she who had come to him
spreading her legs or was he who had moved his hand to her
thigh? I did not remember it. But I could not forget was what was
felt when he had bowed his head to kiss the soft skin of her
throat as he parted his lips swollen and had its fingers in the
hot wet cavern of her sex. She had been about to
climax right then.
Suddenly he shivered. What was thinking about that now?
What did that feel? Afraid?
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Guilt? Nostalgia? No, never again. The girl who once was
had disappeared, and with it, everything that once felt.
Sasha turned his eyes to the beach where children were playing,
oblivious to what was happening. He looked away quickly, as if
I would contaminate with their thoughts. He felt the urgent

need to protect more than herself. While looked away
He leaned to one side, as if to the attention of Gabriel
focus on her and her helpless children. There was nothing in the world
I was not willing to do to protect them. Absolutely nothing.
Gabriel noticed her involuntary movement. According to Carlo, Sasha was a
very protective mother, but then, how could he not be. Was Carlo
wealthy man, and her role as mother gave him unlimited access to her fortune.
Carlo, like many men who become parents to a
elderly, he had adored his children, who were proof of his
virility. They were his heirs, but now just had nothing
to inherit. Everything about them denoted a privileged lifestyle
and cosmopolitan: its exclusive Italian clothes, his white teeth, his
British upper class accent. Children who, from birth, had been
well cared for and fed. He recalled that, at his age, he wore
rags his emaciated body.
He looked away from the beach to look at the woman in front of him.
Also looked good teeth, they certainly had paid their
love, and now deceased husband. He had one of those haircuts
seemed natural but whose maintenance, he knew well, cost a
fortune. Its 'simple' and elegant linen dress was, no doubt, of
brand. And the nails of his hands and feet, but devoid of enamel
perfectly maintained, they were those of a woman of wealth and
social standing. But that was over. What he had felt when
He learned of the death of Carlo? Relief, perhaps, knowing that would not have
making love with a much older man? Greedy
I rejoice to believe a rich woman? And must have been about thirty years, and if
find another older man wanted to keep it, he would have to

compete with younger women without responsibilities, such as those
They fluttered around him wherever he went. One of its
lovers had once told him that it was his Saracen ancestry which
He gave this dark and dangerous turn his enemies feared and
Women loved. In his opinion, someone who had grown like him,
abandoned and physically and psychologically abused, he learned quickly
restore what life had given him. No wonder he was a child
he had to compete with the farm dogs to obtain a
piece of bread developed a hard shell to protect both their
body and feelings.
He smiled coldly to see Sasha's eyes darkened.
Yes, it must have been very hard to be in bed with a man
He took pleasure with your body but was unable to give pleasure to you.
Although, of course, you had plenty of money to please you, right?
No I married Carlo for money.
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-Ah Not? So why did you marry him?
He had caught. He heard the heavy breathing that escaped her
chest. What he found that family need to protect a
deathblow. Unfortunately for her, it was too late. No
possible protection.
Because you certainly do not think it was for love She mocked him
cruelly. I saw him just before he died in the hospital in Milan. You
You were in New York, I think. Shopping. You metiste to children
internal in school, to enjoy total freedom.
She went completely pale. Gabriel admitted with rage
even then, devoid of color and life, it was
incredibly beautiful.
Sasha feared he might faint with indignation. There was
secretly traveled to New York to meet with other
specialist and see if there was any way to save Carlo. You may not
I had loved her husband as a woman, but she was grateful
for all he had done for the twins and her. The decision
to register their children in school had not been easy to take. For her,
emotional stability of children was paramount, but had a
Carlo huge debt. What kind of person would if he had done
everything humanly possible to find a way to give your
husband's lifetime? It would have been very difficult to travel to New
York with children. Moreover, they did not want to see him die
slowly. Without that had to be available to visit
hospital twice or thrice a day. Carlo had wanted to die in Italy and not in
London, where he was the school children. He had taken the decision
he believed most appropriate at the time, but now Gabriel was
He is making you feel guilty about leaving the kids at school during
an entire quarter.
I imagine you know that was broken and it has not left you
but debts.
Yes, I know he admitted grim. Not worth trying to hide her
real economic situation, and try to explain what he had felt

by Carlo. She would not understand because he was a man incapable of
understanding.
The painful childhood they had both lived, instead of creating between
these ties of mutual sympathy, had become the most
bitter enemies. He never understood why he had left by
Carlo, and she would never try to explain it; simply not worth the
worth.
'I suppose I should be honored that you came to
rejoice in person. After all, you did not go to the funeral.
-Para See you mourn with crocodile tears? My stomach did not
I had endured.
You've come to humiliate me with your words. They have already spent ten
years, Gabriel. Do not you think it's time for ...?
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About what? How to charge me the debt you owe me? With
interests, as well? I am a man who likes to collect what they owe,
Sasha. Carlo knew.
Sasha felt something froze inside.
What do you mean by that that I knew Carlo?
I knew, when he asked me to lend him money, he would have to
return it.
Does your money you lent Carlo?

Gabriel nodded.
He used the hotel as a guarantee. He had bought above
its possibilities. I told him, but he believed it to borrow money
help solve their problems and like we were family, not me
He refuses to help. Unfortunately for him, he managed to not take
business afloat. Fortunately for me, its debt was covered by
their property. They are now mine. Including this hotel, of course.
Sasha stared at him intently.
-Tuyo? -not He understood what he was saying. You mean
that you are the owner of this hotel?
-The Owner of this hotel and others. And your house, your clothes and
the money you have in the bank. Everything belongs to me now, Sasha.
Everything.
Carlo debt is paid, but yours is still pending. Do you
you thought I forgot? What I do not bother to claim it?
Sasha longed desperately looking for their children, make sure
they were still there, safe and sound, and none of this could
you affect them. But he was afraid to look at Gabriel realized his
vulnerability. So instead he took a deep breath and asked:
What are you going to complain? I was the victim in our relationship,
Gabriel. I was the one who ...
'You were the one who sold to the highest bidder.
She forced herself to look at him.
No other option left me he said, lowering his voice.
It was the truth. She had come to him for all those
things I never had, believing that miracles occurred to
Girls like her, and that everything bad that had happened to him in life
He had a solution. At that time, I still had dreams. I felt sorry for the
girl who had been and was glad it had disappeared. AND
above all, he was happy to be the woman she had become. Prior to
Gabriel could say anything, she asked:
What do you want, Gabriel? I guess you will not have
wasted your precious time to come here just to rejoice with my
pain. Or maybe you thought it would be fun throw us
personally? Well I'll save you the trouble. Not be long before
to pack.
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Of all the luxuries to which he would have to resign, that was the one
It would take more than less. The luxury of pride. And she knew how
point was a luxury.
'I have not finished it snapped.
Was there more? Could anything be worse?
Before his death, Carlo appointed me guardian of their children.
It had to be a joke. A cruel and deliberate attempt to frighten:
his revenge. But it could not be true.
-What's Wrong? she asked Gabriel smoothly, once recovered
her breath. Do not you Carlo reported his intentions to appoint
Family legal guardian according to the Sardinian tradition?
Gabriel was well aware that Carlo had not told Sasha,
since his cousin had told him that he would not.
You'd best Carlo trabajosamente- There was muttered. Although I know
Sasha that will cost him understand. And it was costing, he thought
Gabriel. His eyes shone disbelief as she shook her head. This
it could not be happening, Sasha despaired. She was the mother of all
nightmares. The height of betrayal. He felt fear crossed his
heart and his body paralyzed.
No cried, pale with fright, wringing her hands in anguish.
I do not believe you.
'My lawyers have all documents needed.
It was not a cruel joke, said Sasha. It was real. It ached
head, which was full of unanswered questions.
-I Do not get it. Why would I do something like Carlo? Why?
Gabriel shrugged. Within seconds, the image
before her was faded and in their place came a Gabriel more
Young drove with the same strong shoulders and tanned
to leave the sea and reach the deck of his yacht. His naked body
wet was so blatantly ready for her like she
He was for him. And she was always ready for him. Ready, eager,
desirous. He lacked inhibitions and suspected he would not have it
allowed to have any. They were alone on the yacht, and she had put
one of the shirts Gabriel over his naked body, getting excited
the thought that his body would be fully available as he
touch. As a lover, he had opened his eyes to a new world
pleasure, so intense he knew he could never forget. There had been
times when Gabriel had spent long hours caressing and kissing
every centimeter of your body: the curve of her throat, the soft skin of her
forearm, fingers. If she closed her eyes, she could still feel the pleasure
almost unbearable erotic that caused her wet tongue cross it
whole. It is so excited that he forgot he had ordered to
remain still, and tried to approach him, arching her back and
She is spreading her legs while sighing with delight as he felt
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carefully separating the lips of her sex and stroked his tongue.
Her orgasm began before he penetrated her, and when this
finally happened, she longed to feel part of the barrier without
preservative that he always insisted on using.
Sasha suddenly realized the danger involved what
I was doing. What was happening? How could he think
what then?
It's obvious he heard Gabriel say coldly. Carlo knew the
state of their financial affairs. He himself said he wanted to do
possible to protect the future of their children. To appoint me guardian
I was forced to keep morally.
No, he had never done so Sasha protested, knowing
that she was fooling herself. That was precisely the kind of
things that Carlo had, even for the best reasons.
Carlo had a deep-rooted family concept.
He had been very proud to be a Calbrini, and that their children take
that name. The he had loved and had protected the pain of love
Gabriel and feel rejected by him, but the guys took blood
Calbrini veins and that, after all, was more important than her.
Sasha tried to be strong and focus on what Gabriel was you
saying, instead of returning to the past, but the memories he was you
They could evoke doing with it. What was possib1e that the mere fact
She is with him awakened in her erotic thoughts about thought
truly have left behind?
-Mantenerlos Repeated Gabriel and, with studied cruelty added: And
protect his mother.
Sasha took several seconds to absorb what one had said and
several seconds longer to react to their cruel and unjust words.
No need anyone to protect me, nor need you
you.
-Carlo Would not give the reason, and the law does not give you the will. I am
your
tutor. These children are under my protection. That was the wish of his father
before
died.
But I'm his mother.
-a Not very proper mother might say.
'You have no right to say that. You have no idea
relationship I have with my children.
I know you. You went to Carlo because he was willing to offer
what I would not give. Now he's dead, and sooner or later seek
another man to take his place. A Carlo worried that your new
husband watch over the interests of their children and naturally wanted
protect them.
I never marry a man I did not love my children as if
they were his own.
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No?
Sasha thought guess what he was thinking.
-Still you have not forgiven your mother, right? Well, I'm not
she, Gabriel. I love my children and ...
Shut up. This has nothing to do with my mother.
Sasha did not want to argue with him. What would? But I knew I had
right. Gabriel thought all women were able to leave
their children for money: I needed to believe it because otherwise it would be like
accept that his mother had abandoned him because he was not worthy of
maternal love. Sasha knew that this was true for him
immovable, I could not change because he did not want to change. It was
something she had learned on their journey towards maturity, which had been
difficult and painful at times, but that had led to
accept his own past. Above all he had learned that it was impossible
do for others that trip that led to the acceptance of oneself.
Gabriel had long had decided to sacrifice their ability to
love and be loved in return for the protection afforded by the belief
the female has no other motivation than self-interest.

Carlo had thought surely make the right decision, but
Sasha wanted Gabriel had not brought back to life and,
all, the lives of their children. For her, children were everything. there was nothing
she was not willing to do to protect them; would be able to
any sacrifice.
'You had no reason to accept the request of Carlo he pointed out. Why
did you do? My children mean nothing to you.
Gabriel felt the hostility in his voice. He glanced toward children.
Sasha was right meant nothing to him, apart from the fact that
Calbrini had blood in his veins. His first reaction on hearing the appeal
Carlo had been rejected. Why would carry the
responsibility for the children of his cousin, especially knowing who his
mother? It was clear what Carlo wanted. He was broke and had
money, their children were still too young to fend for themselves
themselves, and did not trust that the mother could protect them: be sold to
first man who could afford their whims. So Carlo
He resorted to him, knowing that morally I could not ignore the link
blood that united them.
But since then Gabriel had time to reflect.
He had come to the conclusion that by accepting the role of tutor to the children
Carlo was spared having to spawn its own heirs and all
the legal problems that entailed. Carlo's sons were Calbrini.
He decided he would dedicate a time for children to see for themselves
whether they deserved it or not be raised as his heirs.
If so, he educates them as if they were their own children, for
make them worthy men of his vast empire and wealth. In
Regarding Sasha ...

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He felt the pain of a wound that had not healed. His
her story was a page of his life that had not yet
managed to eliminate. None of the women had before or the
they came after he had managed to leave the same mark. Sasha had
a debt to settle with him, and now fate was giving the
chance to recover.
Once collected the principal and interest on its debt, he
He leaves. That alone could save his pride. Would leave it clear that no
there was room for it in the new life of their children, and certainly not in the
Gabriel. It would not be difficult. Sasha knew. It was hedonistic, given
the sensual and greedy pleasures. Gabriel was not as innocent as
to think that convince asked what he wanted to do. At the time
when she realized the plan, he would cling to the children,
They constitute a passport to his fortune. It had to be subtle and careful.
And if, ultimately, she refused to give up their rights
about their children ... Well, if he was foolish enough to do so
He would soon realize his mistake.
No, but it meant a lot to Carlo replied Gabriel
coldly. And the word I gave him means a lot to me. I promised to
I treat them as if they were my own children, and that is exactly what
I intend to do.
How their children ?, Sasha started. He should have
I imagined. She knew how much he had loved Carlo guys, but
not unaware how deep were his Sardinian roots and how important it
They were for him the family and honor. If Carlo had made it a participant in
plans, could have done something about it. Something, anything. You
I had begged, he demanded even made not to do something. Carlo
Gabriel knew what I felt for her, how much he despised. AND
I also knew that ...
He breathed deeply. He had not thought about it. It had not
she allowed herself since the day he left the bed of Gabriel
at dawn while he slept still unaware of his intentions. No
He took nothing with him. He left the expensive clothes and jewelry he had given
her
on the yacht. It only took her passport and enough money to get to the hotel
where Carlo was staying. I was eighteen, and Carlo was already
entered in the sixties. It was not surprising then that when one months
after the wedding was held, the official who thought that married
He was his father. But she did not care. The only thing that mattered
Now was his security.
Sasha saw Gabriel watched the boys, and her maternal instinct
interpreted this look like a threat. It was to take his arm to
to stop looking at them, but he beat her and grabbed her heavily
wrist, making her moan in pain. Gabriel's body tensed as
that of a hunter, a predator waiting for its prey trying to
escape to punish. Sasha felt a chill run down his stomach
While acknowledging that feeling of excitement. How he could be
happening? For more than ten years he did not touch her. The
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birth of the twins had made him experience a different kind
of love that had erased what he felt at the time by Gabriel. Or at
less, so she believed.
How could she make him feel well with his mere touch? He felt a void in
belly, legs shaking and felt the adrenaline running through the
veins. How could he make him feel all that? He tried
consoled thinking it was his imagination. She did not want or
he wished. But the hunger inside her was becoming more intense and
He stifled any attempt to think rationally. Excitement and rage,
desire and disgust, alchemy at once sweet and wild in his day
They shared back with full force.
He recalled that he had felt the first time I saw him. Only
then his excitement had not been tarnished by the pain. His craving
for he had mastered even before he touched her, and when
finally did ... He closed his eyes, trying not to remember, but it was
too late. She heard herself screaming with pleasure as he
He is leading to orgasm with her expert fingers. Her first orgasm. He had
She waited until her body had stopped shaking and asked,
with an air of triumph which soon would be very familiar, how
He called.
Sasha opened his eyes suddenly. Her face burned with embarrassment
then remember your behavior. He was only seventeen,
He reminded herself shakily. A girl with a head full of
dreams but at the same time, I thought I knew everything. Now she was a woman
twenty, mature enough to realize it
dangerous than had been his past and how lucky she was to
escape him and Gabriel. He had released. In the past, Gabriel and
all that he had made her feel.
He felt Gabriel watched and how his intense gaze made her
tremble. He could not even imagine what Sasha had been remembering.
He was mature enough not to betray itself
revealing his thoughts. However, he could not control his eyes,
which he ran through him stopping at the throat tanned
He is protruding from the collar of his polo. He imagined the powerful torso,
stomach
hairy and, finally, the place where his hands and lips
intimately they had rested in the past. He recalled the smooth flesh
male that covered the hard muscle, and how he reacted to his touch ...
But what was he doing? She quickly banished memories.
I desperately needed to swallow and soak your dry lips
but I would not do it just in case ... Just in case what? Did he fear that
Gabriel and realized what I had been thinking and submit to the
wild sexual possession that had aroused so much in the past? Whats there
same with their children a few meters from her?
Let me go gasped trying to free himself from his hand.
Are you sure you want to let you go? Some time ago I
You begged for me to touch you. Do you remember?

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She could not help but shake violently.
I'll warn you, Sasha, just in case you forgot. Be
exactly what you are, 'he said contemptuously while
He studied his body up and down.
I am the mother of the twins, and that I will be for you from
Now, she said Gabriel. Let go so suddenly that she almost lost
balance. He looked trembling. How could he have been so stupid as
to love? But the truth was that he had. Madly and all
his being. She had wanted desperately that he return her
feelings, believing that he could offer sex in exchange for love.
How foolish she had been. But it was not.
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Chapter 3
Still under the effects of shock, Sasha saw Gabriel headed
his gaze toward children. Still he did not understand why there was Carlo
done so. Sardinian men were certainly different from others.
They were guided by a different code, were living in a paternalistic society
They believed in the absolute right to direct the fate of their families.
When Carlo told Sasha's mother Gabriel, warned that
thereto was not surprised in the least that the grandfather of Gabriel
I had wanted to force the mother of it to marry someone of their
choice.
No wonder that she wanted to flee There was discussed.
Carlo had frowned and shaken his head.
Lucky-he had her father forgave him and that was what
powerful enough to convince her to marry Luigi
despite her humiliation to which he had submitted.
But marry a man she did not love ...
It was his father, and was entitled to do so.
-, And force her to abandon Gabriel, his own son? I will not tell you
that was fine, Carlo.
No, it was not right, but Giorgio was a proud man, and
head of our family. The purity of blood was for him a Calbrini
matter of honor, and as the grandson accept a child whose blood ...
But in the end I had no choice, right?
Carlo had bowed his head, as agreeing with him but Sasha
I knew that deep down it was so conservative and traditional as the grandfather of
Gabriel. She suspected he had told the story of the birth of
Gabriel because, despite what he had done to her, Carlo felt
the duty to justify his cousin. Carlo had offered him protection money
and a name, but remained a Calbrini. Like what were their children.
Carlo he had never forgotten, and now she could not, even by
very different reasons.
Gabriel was watching the children.
No sense you the present. After all, you will not

play a direct role in their lives, right? she challenged.
-quite The opposite. I intend to fulfill my duty as a guardian. By
That's why I'm here. To know to what extent they have been harmed by
circumstances of his life, 'replied without even looking.
-Echan Low to Carlo, but he's dead does not mean
that ...
Gabriel turned to face her.
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-The Damage to which I refer is not caused by his father's death
but rather for the life of the mother.
Sasha felt a chill through his veins.
'You have the right to say that.
I have a right because they are my pupils and my moral and legal duty to
protect them.
-Protegerlos Me? I'm your mother!
His hands were so strained that the nails dug into the flesh. He
He turned slowly and looked at her with his eagle eyes.
Maybe you are a mother, but also are a woman who longs
for a lifestyle that only a rich man can provide. When a
man and you pay for using your body does not want to see your pleasure
interrupted by the needs of a child of nine years. Any
Court considered that such a woman does not fulfill its duties
maternal and is therefore worthy of the name.
Sasha felt rage burned inside.
Just because your mother abandoned you ...
Do not you dare talk about my mother.
She had never felt such anger, nor so afraid.
I've decided that the best thing for my pupils is to remain
here, on the island of his father, as I reflect on what is best for
their future.
'You have no right.
Sasha was afraid but tried not to show it, thought
Gabriel. I could almost feel the waves of panic and fear that shook his
body. The horror in her eyes left no room for doubt.
They're my children Sasha insisted vehemently. They are mine.
And now my pupils are under traditional law Sardinian.
This is a patriarchal society, as you know.
Sasha shook his head.
-you Can not do this. I will not let you.
'You can not stop him coldly smiled. You can not
let you take me to court. You have no money. Carlo died and have
to find another man to keep you. A man who, like Carlo,
not realize what you really are. Do not bother to deny it. To the
After all, we both know you're used to sell to
highest bidder. So you came to me, and so I abandoned, right?
He had asked the question almost casually, but Sasha does not
He fooled. Gabriel did nothing happen without reason. But
Despite knowing it, he could not help showing his own agitation to blurt
nervous.
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That was a mistake.
Yes your mistake She agreed on.
No, it was not ... she began to say, but stopped. It happened ago
long.
What was he doing? He had no need to justify
to protect him but contempt he had always felt
for her. Gabriel was dangerous, always had been and always would be, and
now she had the two best reasons in the world not remember a
past that eventually would destroy it.
No long ago. It's only been ten years since that day when you
I picked up on the street where you had left your last lover. Do you remember?
You told me you'd been offered the lead role in a porn movie,
but you preferred to act in private to me. They were your words, not
mine Gabriel moved away from her and directed towards children.
-Where Are you going? she asked frantically, even knowing the
response.
The will, smiled that made him bite his lip hard
Non lower shudder of horror.
I'm going to meet my pupils' I answered him softly.
Sasha was so caught up in their feelings and the past
Gabriel had come to remind you that for a moment he could not
move, but managed to overcome and began to run after him
shouting:
'Leave my children alone! Do not you dare touch them! Login
thirty sat quite well, recognized Gabriel reluctantly
as I watched her close to him. When she finally reached her breasts
up and down agitation and effort tissue under your
I dress. The old desire he felt reborn in her body caught
unawares. She had always had a nice, firm breasts but
erotically real, warm and malleable. Your skin tasted of woman, sun and
sex and her dark nipples were always hungry for attention
her fingers and lips. He recalled, almost naked in
Cover your private yacht, with bowed head back to
the sea breeze dally with her hair, and a lustful smile on
lips reflecting the intense sensual pleasure he felt to be offered to him.
Now, as then, she was standing in front of him, so no
he could avoid looking at it squarely. Motherhood had endowed her breasts
soft roundness but he seemed to have stolen a bit of slenderness
her waist nor affected the sensuality of a body that seemed
It has been done for sexual pleasure. A body he had known so well
as your own or even better. As a lover, Sasha had
combined a ferocious sexual passion with ability to be female
completely to make love. Of course he had not been far
less the only man who enjoyed Sasha's sexuality and
certainly not the first he had paid for it, either with money
or in kind, that is, with the lifestyle that belonged to the mistress
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a rich man. Thus she had confessed the night is
they met.
He frowned, annoyed at the power she was still
about it, but I believe that it was no longer passion
uncontrollable that a few years ago had melted her body and
brain. He had been crazy about Sasha and she had left a wound
still it hurts him ten years later, even though he had disappeared
the urgent need that had been about to consume. Had
He had gone banished? Did it matter? He had given
account from the first time I took her to the bed did not want to live
wanting someone so intensely. Strive to eradicate this
sentiment showed that he had acted wisely, he had
followed by self-preservation. I was feeling now was not
more than a feeling reminiscent of long dead.
That she had left to go with Carlo he had already been a
coup. But Carlo had given two children who he was
Proud he had done nothing but fuel the pain felt by Gabriel
Remembering his own childhood.
For him, a man who had never received treatment or affection
friendly, the fact that you trust the protection of these children was a
an immense act of recklessness or confidence. The truth was
Gabriel had no intention to atone for the sins of his mother
mortifying two innocent children; not after what he had

I suffered.
He learned that Carlo had died a few hours after it
seen. She had died alone, without Sasha at his side, as it was
shopping.
Sasha. I do not want to think about the past, but I could not help it. The
He recalled as it was the first night I saw her. Her hair, colored
with wicks wrongly made, it was then longer and was slightly
tangled due to the warm evening breeze. He is wearing a miniskirt
ordinary and a top that showed off more than they hid, clothing that
left no doubt about what he did on that sidewalk of St. Tropez.
He never would have thought to stop if it was not because she
there were literally thrown into his car. In this city abounded
girls like Sasha, nice, available and anxious, ranging from lover
in lover looking for a man foolish enough and rich
as to offer more than just a night of sex in exchange for a bundle
euros. Sasha wore a big straw capacho containing, as he
He told all his belongings.
'I've had to go quickly, so I grabbed what I have
he said frankly have once entered his Ferrari without
He has been invited.
That happened in May. From what little she told concluded that
the man she had left was one of those undesirables
swarming the Cannes film festival, a 'producer' sought
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cool to own satisfaction and those who saw their meat
degrading pornographic films.
But Gabriel did not want to waste time listening, when
there were other ways to get pleasure from those sweet lips and
sensual. Sasha, like all of its kind, was a practical girl, and
then he realized that it would be more profitable to satisfy one
man who risk going hand to his producer
friends.
It was really handy. Within a year he had already made plans
to thrive. For it had not only been to bed with another
man, but he had also married to him, which was more
profitable. And that man was none other than Carlo, his second cousin,
man who could have been his father. Nothing seemed to presage that Sasha
He was to leave: he was the one in control of the relationship, not her. The
He is paying bills and, therefore, ruled the roost: she was to be
His long as he wished. But the truth was that he had abandoned,
leaving behind a debt to his pride. A debt that now
fate would be charged.
Sasha warned that Gabriel's lips was forming a
cruel smile that looked familiar. He recalled the times he had him
He dedicated this grin before satisfying the desire awakening
in her.
When he met Gabriel, she thought she knew everything that had
to know about sex and their own body. The truth was that no
He knew nothing about pleasure and a lot of need.

When Carlo Gabriel proposed escape and life that had
brought before meeting, she told herself it was an opportunity
I could not pass up. He had to take advantage and think only of the
future. And that was exactly what he had done.
But though he had not consciously striven to evoke the
past, sometimes she returned to him in dreams, which caused him deep
pain. In the years following the birth of their children, Sasha had
I learned to walk with their heads held high, for the children and for her
same. He did not deny his past, but he had left behind with the
lesson learned. If someday your kids asking him questions, it will
tell the truth.
But they were still too young to know the mistakes
I had made and was willing to fight to protect the
reality. If Gabriel wanted them away from her, would have to do on your
own body, he said vehemently.
'I'm separated from my children.
He will be here with me.
-Contigo? In Sardinia? Where? If not even live here, '
she recalled.
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That's true, but now I'm the owner of the hotel I have the
intention to turn it into a private home. Children live here

when not in school; that way they will be educated in the culture
his father.
Apparently, it was a sensible and altruistic plan. But altruism does not
It was a feature of Gabriel. He was hiding something. He looked at
their children with a heart full of anxiety. You could not deny that their
Calbrini blood veins ran, although they were still too
young to have developed the characteristic profile of an eagle
family. Carlo had always proudly proclaimed that their children were
Calbrini authentic, and had promised that ... Sasha stuck nails
in the palm of your hand. Carlo was an honorable man, he said. Not
It would have broken the promise he made before the twins were born.
You -children have to return to school in London in September
he warned Gabriel.
-still Are in July. They have all summer to have fun and
start getting used to me.
Are you going to spend the summer here?
-and Why not? At the end of the day, I'm from Sardinia. I must be
here to supervise the works of the hotel and spend more time with my
wards.
Sasha looked at him defiantly.
'Are you aware that I will be here with them?
'To do a trip to Puerto Cervo and try to find
someone to take the place of Carlo? Another major and wealthy man
who can you sell? Or maybe this time you prefer one rich but young?
Do not get too hopeful, Sasha. You're getting older, and
You have much competition. Also, there are not many men who want
bear the child of another man. But of course, now that I think about it
It is not a problem for you. You just have to get to internal children
in a school and go live life without them, as you did when Carlo was
He is dying.
'You have no right ... Sasha started to say, but it was
too late.
Gabriel had begun to move toward the twins, ignoring
his words. She started running towards the rocks, in a desire
instinctive stand between him and his children, but in doing slipped and stabbed
a rock in the bare leg, causing her to wince in pain. As
if they had perceived the anxiety of his mother, the children stopped playing and
They stared at the two adults approaching. Both ran
to his mother and placed one on each side, a gesture typically
Men who otherwise would have made her smile. The
twins were identical, while sometimes almost managed to deceive
when they played to exchange positions. But there were some differences
including subtle that only a mother could appreciate.
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Gabriel had to admit it was splendid acting as
a lioness defending her young, completely oblivious to the trail of blood
running down his leg.
A wild and primitive feeling came over him.
Sardinia's history was full of tales of revenge and

resentment among clans. He came from a family that, although
He said nozzle respect the laws, basically believed in the law
retaliation: eye for eye, tooth for tooth. He had believed that Sasha
He belonged, and that she would remain by his side until she stopped be of
utility. He had thought he controlled the relationship, and therefore, in
person. Their relationship was governed by an unwritten ancestral law. But
she had violated the law and, in doing so, had offended his pride.
I could never forget what her mother had done when he was a
child. He had disowned him and Gabriel had promised himself that
never let a woman compromise your emotional security. He
It was the one who always had relationships with women who chose.
He had planned to finish with Sasha, but she had beaten him. And that
it was worse, he had left for another man. His own cousin! Yes,
Sasha had an outstanding debt, and thought to collect from.
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Chapter 4
He would not allow separated from their children, even if it meant
having to stay on the island with Gabriel, said Sasha
determination. Fortunately, it would not be for long. Even
Gabriel could delay the start of the school year. Which reminded him
that ... Mir rings adorning their hands. Thanks to its will and
determination had studied a career and an MBA

companies. And thanks to the generosity of Carlo, selling your jewelry you
would buy a house in London close to school children,
school fees and even save some money so
It could happen.
Come here, Gabriel demanded authoritatively reaching out
to the twin who was closer.
Sam went to Sasha a questioning look.
It would be very easy to turn them against Gabriel, fill their malleable
minds of hatred and resentment, inject poison until they started
to hate and fear the man her father had chosen as his tutor.
But, despite his personal feelings, he knew that he could not
do that. I could not manipulate that. They were the
most important to her.
Sasha forced a smile and pushed slightly towards Nico and Sam
Gabriel.
Your father asked Gabriel who was your tutor, which
It means we can stay in the rest of the summer Sardinia He said trying to smile casual.
It was better to give a simple explanation that they could understand.
They both loved Sardinia reason. At the end of the day, it had formed
an important role in his life and in the history of your family party. They had
been there every summer since birth.
Gabriel it was strange that those two small
representatives of family genetics greet him with a formal handshake
hands instead of the traditional Sardinian way. But at the end
After his father was an old man, and old school
He educated partly in England, so it was not surprising that it

would be reflected in their ways.
What's your name? Sam asked timidly.
Gabriel's father's second cousin Sasha quickly explained
not to give Gabriel a chance to become master of the situation or
even in that case as nimio-. What if you call cousin Gabriel?
Cousin Gabriel repeated aloud the child. Sam was the most serious
although, sometimes, the most reckless of the two, while Nico tended
to imitate his brother. I like.
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I'm glad, 'said Gabriel cordially and, seizing the
control of the conversation, he added: I called your cousin father
Carlo when I met him.
"How clever," thought Sasha watching his sons began to
relax and get close to him, as if they felt instinctively drawn
to that character who had just burst into their lives.
Carlo had deeply loved his children, but due to its
disease, could only tolerate the presence of two strong
boys in small doses. Sasha had become a kind
parapet between father and children with the intention of protecting everyone:
Children suffering and her fragile emotional suffering father
physical.
Can we go fishing this afternoon? I ask Nico eager.

Fishing had become one of his favorite pastimes, and
most days the three spent long periods sitting on the rocks
waiting for the bait fish they had Sasha
taught to prepare.
But before she could open her mouth, Gabriel answered
calm:
I have to talk about some issues with your mother, so
we must return to the hotel. But perhaps this evening could you teach me how
It is the best place to fish.
He was seducing children with the same ease with which he had
He seduced her long ago, Sasha thought while watching their children jump
Gabriel joy around way back to the hotel.
-can You play soccer? he heard Nico asked shyly
Gabriel enthusiasm.
Gabriel stopped immediately and looked at the serious face of the boy.
What kind of question is that? But I'm Italian! He laughed the
boy.
Sam is Chelsea, but I prefer the AC Milan 'said Nico
a radiant smile.
-I Am half Chelsea because we explained Sam English
seriously addressing his brother. It is normal, right?
They were so excited talking about football with Gabriel was
as if she were not, Sasha thought sadly.
You've got to heal that wound Gabriel ordered when they reached the
hotel.
Sasha's lips twitched into a thin line.
'Please do not try to imply that worries my leg He replied sarcastically. They will not charitable gestures. Furthermore, the two
We know that you have never felt sorry for the female sex, and much
less about me.
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He turned to look at the children, who had stayed behind.
Children, do me a favor and go to wash your hands before going down to
the kitchen to eat.
Sasha was educating their children lovingly but firmly. To
her good manners were very important, but the deal had to be
reciprocal. If it intended that children behave politely, she
it had to address them politely. With this attitude,
Fortunately it was the same that prevailed in the school, children
They were
accustoming
to
say
"By
Please
and
"Thank you"
automatically, but sometimes, as it was normal for children of their
age, forgot to do so.

'You're not exactly the best person to talk about
Gabriel said concern as the children disappeared stairs
above-. It might've been smart enough not to
hire a full time nanny, which I had not Carlo
allowed anyway, but clearly try not to have
too many responsibilities in the day of thy children.
Which you have asked some questions about football does not mean that
is a mother for their children, 'he said Sasha does not care
disdainful.
No what I meant, but the fact that children send
eat in the kitchen, while you probably eat somewhere else
elegant. If you could get away with it, surely even you buy one
lover. Possibly the same he was like dining in New
York.
Sasha looked at him angrily. He was so angry that no
even he thought about answering. He owed nothing. And he would not give
legitimacy trying to defend their accusations. Why would
I do it?
It's a shame we do not bring it more out of this twisted sense
the fact that you have, Gabriel. And for your information I'll tell you
whoever was making money is no spy deserved
you paid. If he had done his work had found that the
only man with whom I was in New York was the oncologist I went to
visit. Unlike you, I did not stay sitting waiting for Carlo
He died when there was a faint hope of finding some
drug or treatment that could prolong their replied days
contemptuously before turning to go to meet their

children upstairs.
But he did not let go very far and, grabbing his wrist, forcing
turn to him when he had just climbed two steps.
Your story is very moving, or at least it would be if you
knew so well. Did it ever occur to you that maybe Carlo
He wanted to die? What rather she dies peacefully in his own bed in
rather than prolonging the agony for months or weeks just for you
you could follow and benefit from your money? While he was alive you had
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the life they always dreamed of, the life you got to change your
body. He was crazy about you and you knew it. While he begged me to
lend money to any interest just to satisfy your greed.
-That Is not true!
It had been as pale as the marble was of the
lobby walls. Her eyes filled with tears, making the
Gabriel appeared blurred image.
It was pride that made him to borrow money, not me. Nor
even I know what I was doing.
You're a liar.
He was still holding her by the wrist and recalled a scene at him
in which she, in other times and in other marble staircase, looked
while he is laughing provocatively. They were the steps of a sewing workshop

Exclusive to which he had taken for a dress she tries on
black silk fitted like a glove to his body. She had
inclined towards him and in doing so, the dress had slipped leaving their
breasts exposed. He had caressed her body with his eyes and had
cupped hands to fit their bare breasts. At that
times she still believed that he was not serious when he said that
his life was no place for love and feelings. He was so
madly in love with him he thought the power of his love you
would change. But that was then.
Now, the flood of tears that had spilled and the protective wall
I had built around it separated her from her past. was a
impenetrable wall, reinforced by the bitterness of reality and hatred
I felt.
'I hate' I said excitedly, feeling the hot breath of
Gabriel on his skin.
This, unable to contain himself, he shook furiously, making
off balance and stagger toward him.
'That saying, but am sure it would follow screwing around
me ... for money.
He backed angry, tense muscles in the throat
anger and pain.
You were the one who taught me to separate the body feelings,
consider sex as a physical activity that had nothing to do
with love. So if you want to sleep with you, I imagine it would be
able to abstract the hatred that I have you. But the truth is that no
I, nor use my body as a bargaining chip.
-why? Have you As soon found another man to replace

Carlo?
Why I was feeling that pain so intense? Not wanted; He had
stopped doing the day she began to aspire to a place
permanently in your life. He still seemed to hear her soft voice and false
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as he said, "I love Gabriel, and I know you love me too,
but you refuse to admit it. " Had replied to her, you're wrong.
I do not want anyone. My adoptive parents destroyed my ability and my
desire to love. They told them that love me when they discovered
I had money. You say you love me, but what they really want
say is that you would stay forever by my side because I'm
rich and you poor. What we really love is what I am able to give. "
"That's not true!" She had protested. But of course he did not
he had believed.
He looked at her, as she said vehemently, 'No, Gabriel,
Unlike you, I have left the past behind-and raising
chin proudly, he added: Now I have a career and a master
in business administration. I can find a job I
allows to keep all three.
Sasha wanted that reality.
Gabriel try to fight the feeling that was taking
it. Why the hell suited her so badly that she could stay
alone and not rely on him?
'I do not fool on your paper devoted mother, Sasha contraatac-. Do you think you're the mother who pretend to be
Carlo had considered necessary to appoint me guardian of your children? It is
clear that the end was well aware of who you are, and wanted
protect them.
Sasha instinctively raised his hand, but he reacted quickly
and, before she realized his intentions, he took her in his
arms and kissed furiously. Gabriel's mouth pressure exerted
violent on her delicate lips, as she magullndolos
He struggled trying to escape his embrace. But the taste of blood
He felt in the language came from savage bite he had given him
lower lip as revenge. The away so suddenly he almost
he toppled to the ground, and looked murderers eyes as he wiped the
He wounded lip with the palm of the hand.
-Zorra! She cried brutally before turning around and down
stairs, leaving her with a cold, burning sensation at the same time, fear and
despair, hatred and ... And what? The opposite of hate is love, and
she did not love. The hand and the eye was surprised to see that the
withdrawing were covered with tears.
Part of the charm of the hotel lay in the fact that preserved
many aspects of a private residence, thought Sasha in
suite room located on the top floor, at the request of
Carlo, there had never been part of the hotel.
Below, on the next floor, there was another large suite and three more
small, the rest of the rooms in what once had

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It has been the stable of the house. The common areas were decorated and
furnished as belonging to a private home.
At the rear of the building it was built a large hall
glass that served as dining and overlooking a terrace,
in turn, flowed into the pool.
For a man with a fortune of Gabriel would be easy to reconvert
in private residence. And it would be more comfortable than the strength of the
mountains where his grandfather had lived.
Carlo and she had occupied separate rooms during their
marriage. Hers had a sea view and decorated in blue tones
pastel and natural fabrics.
Mary had to talk to the food, so he called for
phone. Once the call had finished off her dress and linen
he went to the bathroom to heal the wound of the leg. Hours
I was going outdoors with the children they were Browning
skin, banishing the pallor caused by the time that had passed
Carlo. Just he looked in the mirror. What happened during the morning you
I had a headache.
Why had he done that Carlo? It had promised him never ...
But deep down I knew why. It was his way of ensuring the future
Sam and Nico. But what about her? You really thought she Carlo
Gabriel would keep it? Who knew what was in the

head of a man on his deathbed.
He cleaned the wound automatically, but your thoughts
they were somewhere else. The dress had a bit of dried blood, so
He was the closet and pulled out jeans and a shirt from the closet. You
would have liked to shower before dressing, but the boys and
They would be hungry.
Down in the kitchen, Maria and the children were waiting around a
large, heavily used but polished table. Mary was the woman who was to
cook for them when they were staying there.
Look, mom, Maria will make a cake with these eggs have
Flossie put Sam and Bessie announced proudly.
Flossie and Bessie bantams were children. These were
You learn to appreciate what was good food, where it came from and
how to cook an aspect of education that Sasha struggled to
foster.
Let's make brownies. But after eating.
Good idea unexpectedly announced a male voice. A voice
that Sasha did not want anything to hear. She looked at him lip
involuntarily. It had stopped bleeding but very hinchado-.
I love brownies.
What was happening? Why he could not stop looking at that mouth?
If you do not stop him going to realize ... He wondered if Mary and the
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boys would be perceived tension and mistrust prevailing in the
room. It irked him to react like that. And twenty-eight and not
seventeen, and was no longer as vulnerable and had to feel overwhelmed by
Gabriel's sexuality and their own immaturity.
But I did not fit doubt that it was exciting.
Feelings of anger, rejection and panic ran through his veins like a
Red hot lava. Why it was happening to that? He had lived
ten years without him. A time when he had felt happy and secure,
glad to be rid of the need and feelings
destructive than had previously attached to it, the anxiety that she had not
He has been able to control and he nevertheless other. There was nothing that
would not have
then made to please. For her there was nothing that exceeded the
pleasure to please. And now the pain I was feeling inside
It was a reminder, just that he had known how to provoke also
I had known satisfy you. The passion that had been between them had
It has been devouring, almost compulsive. How could a man be so
power over her?
She tried to concentrate on the table before him. Good food
It had to digest it well, and for that you had to be relaxed. But she
beginning to feel the anxiety that Gabriel's presence made him feel.
What was he doing in the kitchen? When phoning to warn Mary
it would be a diner's at the table heard that Gabriel and
He had been in the kitchen to introduce and inform that
would eat.
The hotel had been officially closed since the day he died
Carlo, after it was discovered they were almost bankrupt. The chef, who
had Michelin stars under his belt, the maitre imposing and
elegant receptionist had gone looking for another job
safe, and the hotel had only a few employees, including
Mary and which included some members of his family.
Sasha asked Maria in the local dialect if Gabriel had asked
food. Gabriel, who spoke several languages, always used English
to address her, and he did, commenting:
-Mary Offered to serve lunch on the terrace, but when I
realized I was alone in the kitchen I told him I did not have
bother. At the end of the day, he is a senior and the terrace is
so far.
Sasha caught a disapproving tone in his voice and knew
once that was addressed to her.
I am the that serves food, not Mary she corrected. He did not say that
Also she had cooked, because Mary could not, but
because Sasha had realized without that Gabriel
He noted, that the rheumatism that afflicted the old lady kept her
undertake many areas. Mary, her husband the rest of her family depended
hotel, not just for a living, and living in it. Sasha already had
begun to dip into their own savings, which were not many,
to prevent hardship they suffered. But he was not going to tell Gabriel
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Nothing of that. Now what he wanted most was that he disappeared from his
life or, at least, the kitchen. Avoiding looking at him, he said
disdainful:
Sure you find the way back to the terrace. Where are you going
to eat?
It was a lump in his stomach to consider that
he suggested that the two ate together.
Mom always with us as Sam returning -inform
Sasha to reality with your child quiet voice.
As you know, the hotel is closed.
Of course I knew. He knew everything there was to know about the state
current business, since now belonged.
Sasha was still not able to look him in the face. The course,
I was used to the best and had the services of a chief
kitchen that was on duty day and night.
-Children And I do very simple meals. It is best to
you go to Porto Cervo. There you will find many restaurants.
What will you eat? he asked the twins, ignoring
ignore it.
-fish Sam said enthusiastically. We chose us
in the market this morning. Mom does not like it when still
move, but how to make sure just fishing.
Pietro taught us. Sometimes they even let us go with him on the boat and
we see on the network. If you want, we can you ask if you can come you
too.
Sasha felt a pang of maternal pride. Eyes welled
but he fought tears not shed them. A male children do not
like mothers do love cheesy shows.
Do you think there will be enough fish for me? he heard Gabriel
Sam asked, treating him as an equal, and not like a child.
That attitude was going to do very popular with children, Sasha thought
rage. And he knew it. He gave it to understand the look he gave her. There was
It has been a resounding success.
If you prefer meat instead of fish we have a little lamb.
But it will take to be avoiding he said coldly look
directly-but go for it. We serve skewered with
peppers, onions, mushrooms and wild rice garnish. is a
Recipe of the area and ...
'I grew up here, you know it he interrupted Gabriel, adding
a curtly: I'll fish.
Mom is teaching us to cut into fillets said Nico very
seriously.
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Are you raising two cooks? Gabriel asked in a tone not
quite unfriendly.
No, I'm raising my children to be independent and to
to appreciate their environment and the pleasures of the good and simple things
He offers life she corrected Sasha vehemently. My children ...
And he cut my pupils-the menacingly making
shudder.
Gabriel had to admit as he looked at the relationship
Sasha had with their children was not as he had imagined. She herself was
different as he remembered. He had expected to meet a mother
expressing feigned exaggerated maternal instinct, which was
among women watching men his age. Women
They are using their children as props to pose for the cameras but
then they rushed to drop them into the hands of third parties as
They disappeared journalists. But even though it cost him, he had no
to admit that what I saw in the eyes of Sasha when
He watched the twins was true love.
Gabriel knew that to find that he had been penniless
Sasha had to change the lifestyle to which he was
used when he lived Carlo but did not think she also had
changed. However, the woman he was watching now
seemed very comfortable in the kitchen and perfectly comfortable in his
role of full-time mother.
He looked around appreciating the homely, comfortable environment
Room and confident and smiling faces of the two children who
Now he was responsible. When he was little, his adoptive parents
just let him enter the kitchen of the farm where they lived,
on the other hand, it lacked the warmth and cleanliness that reigned in that
room. In that kitchen love breathing.
Love? He did not believe in love. Love does not exist. And if there was, the
fact have not received as a child did not have to care

or why hurt. That was the mantra that was repeated over and over again.
In the end, everyone ate fish on the kitchen table. Sasha not
He got a bite to eat. Although he had sat so that no
Gabriel had to look, I could not help but feel its presence, which
She made her very nervous. If he had insisted on eating with her
torment her, there was no doubt that I was getting.
He remembered the first time they ate together. It had been aboard his
yacht, where he took when he picked up on that street of St. Tropez.
That day had no appetite problems. He had not eaten anything
Decent for several days and was hungry. He had shown
slightly surprised that the food disappeared from dish
seconds.
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I thought I was very clever. He had been observed during
a whole, and he had been fantasizing and dreaming awake week
as a teenager desperate to know love.
I had seen on the pier, which made him think naively that
would be a member of the crew of one of the large yachts that were
moored in the harbor. His simple clothing, jeans and a
shirt, did not imply that it could be the owner of one. it was the
type of man that a girl like her could only dream of. Alto,
dark, incredibly handsome, he had everything to go crazy to the

women. The truth is I was in love before crossing
word with him.
And he had such need of love. Her mother had died in childbirth,
and his father advised him that gave up for adoption. When I had
four, his father remarried, and although he and his new wife
encouraged him to go live with them, her need for love did not
but trouble, especially when her adoptive mother was
pregnant. He returned to the shelter, where he stayed until
He was sixteen, wanting love but too affected by their
past to fit into a normal family.
Social services helped her find a job and a place
to live, but the owners of the store where he worked were upset
before his attempts to form part of the family and to find in them
parents never had. After that, he underwent a
therapy that aimed to resolve their "emotional problems", but from
which would serve the therapy when all you wanted was to be loved?
Social workers found him another job this time in a
supermarket. When six of her colleagues and she won some
money in the lottery decided who would go on vacation to St. Tropez:
One of the girls, well equipped and twenty, met lewd
"Filmmaker" who upon asking was in Cannes
I attend the festival, they proposed to participate in one of his films.
The girls had a heated argument. On the one hand, were the
they wanted nothing to do with what they described as a
"Vicious agent porn movies" and on the other, the least that
They are seeking fame at any price. Doreen, the pneumatic blonde,
Sasha persuaded him to join her in the conquest of fame as

porn star.
As the girls discussed including Sasha daydreamed
Gabriel, imagining that he fell in love madly in love with her and they would live
happily ever after. At that time, did not even know his
name.
Now he knew that those fantasies that populated his head for
his childhood and youth, first to be part of a family united
and then falling in love with Gabriel, they had not been more than a
way to procure the love she had ever received. In your dreams
I could design a world for you.
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The day before the trip back to England, Sasha decided to call
Gabriel attention. What led you to look at a man so broken
emotionally like her? His had always been a relationship
doomed to failure if they had what could be called
a relationship. Theirs was rather a sexual addiction
compulsive and dangerous accompanied by an emotional dependency
part of it and an absolute rejection of everything that had to do with
feelings from him. It would have been hard to find someone
less adequate to meet their expectations. One more person
sensible would have noticed it. But she was not in the head
more than their own fantasies.

That first night she had sincerely believed that the most
It would be difficult to muster the courage to move towards your car
mimicking the poses of the cheeky girls. Miraculously, there were
I worked. First he had entered his car and then he had gone
Your bed. What then could not suspect was that he was going to be
impossible to access his heart.
The children, who had finished eating and were looking forward
to leave, she returned to the present. That day was one of the longest
of his life, he reflected wearily few hours later. Twins
They were already in bed, but she, physically and mentally exhausted, no
He could not sleep. But I had to, because children
always they got up very early.
Gabriel had been hours since he had gone to his suite he had decided
was his. Having announced abruptly that he had work to be done,
He had dismissed children until morning. It was amazing
which easily distinguished from each other. Carlo had never been able
to.
Gabriel. He could not believe what had happened, he told the way to the
bed.
Meanwhile, Gabriel, unable to sleep in the darkness of a room
unknown, was confused and disoriented between the past and the
present. While he stopped short wait to find the body of
Sasha beside him and feel the soft skin of her breast fondling her nipples
with the tip of the thumb in a gesture which, as she had told him many
Sometimes you could not resist. I had never met a woman so sensitive
his touch, which aroused so quickly and uncontrollably with him. And the
he was not certain he had never felt so alive from the point
sexually. There had been times when the desire he felt for her what
He had been considering getting rid of staff and his crew the yacht
same to enjoy the comfort of sleeping with Sasha
where and when he pleased.
When he asked one of his own shirts is put on the
provocative swimsuit bought her, she was a little
reluctant, but after explaining that under his shirt he wanted
naked and ready for the body, the look on his face was frank
excitation.
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Gabriel had begun to feel the need to have her there at all
time to savor the fruit sweeter without anyone bothering. You
She liked knowing he had just slide a hand under her skirt and
stroke her thigh to her burn with excitement. Long before
her fingers gently parted the lips of her sex, she already
He was leaning over him, eyes closed, trembling with desire.
Sometimes he had found more pleasure seeing climax
thanks to the touch of your fingers to reach ecstasy inside.
But only sometimes, because sex could not hold on much longer without
feel the firm grip of those muscles that spurred him to penetrate
more deeply, so much that sometimes seemed to possess that is
They became one person.

Gabriel frowned had no warning that Sasha's body
available. Under his hand there was only a cold, empty bed.
Now fully awake, cursed and muttered something in his face
an expression of furious determination was drawn. His pride would not be
satisfied until he had to Sasha begged him to make love.
Then, he would be the abandon.
He had not awakened in the middle of the night, and the only
explanation found was that her subconscious knew I had
time to punish Sasha for what he had done. So of
simple.
He moved to the center of the bed and closed his eyes
determination. Once satisfied his pride, he could move into the business
of the sons of Carlo and its duty to protect them from damage that have
Sasha mother certainly was causing them.
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Chapter 5
From the house came a path leading to the beach. From there,
Gabriel could see Sasha and the twins walking down the beach. They do not
They had seen, giving you the opportunity to watch
quietly.
Sun first thing in the morning was reflected in the sea and
heated sand beach. Occasionally Sasha or one of the kids

He stopped to pick up a stone or a shell.
Sasha looked more like a girl than a woman, dressed in a shirt
and denim shorts, a headband and a pair of binoculars
neck. You could go the rumor of their conversation but could not quite grasp the
words. Occasionally laughter could be heard indicating that they were
having a good time.
Sasha turned his view towards the sea and said something to the children while
He looked through the binoculars and crouched behind them. Nico leaned
in it and wrapped her arms. Sam was standing on the other side. Sasha
binoculars passed to it and then to his brother. Gabriel did visor
hand and looked in the same direction. In the distance he could see a small
pod of dolphins. Sasha had always loved those animals,
he recalled.
Nico returned binoculars. She kissed him on the head and rounded up
each of their children with one arm.
He felt a twinge of pain in the stomach. As a child he never received the
tenderness of a woman embrace, at least that of his own mother. The
All I received were beaten and abused until he went to live with
a proud grandfather tolerated only because he had no more
remedy.
Down on the beach, Sasha gave their children one last hug before
releasing them. Those morning walks were part of the ritual of the
holidays and the sighting of dolphins that had that
morning was especially nice.
It was incorporated when Sam shouted excitedly:
Look! The cousin Gabriel! And he began to run toward him, followed by
Nico.
Sam reached him first and wrapped her arms. Of course,
Gabriel acceptance by children would not be cause for
concern, had to admit Sasha. Now Nico hugged him too.
The two children watched au cousin as she had emotion
just they saw some dolphins.
I'm going to write in my book of life we have seen dolphins Nico said.
And I in my Sam replied, not wanting to be outdone.
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-Podrais you do a little research before Sasha suggested -Les. Maybe
Internet you find pictures to paste in the book.
'I've already written in mine Gabriel is our tutor' I said Nico
to Sasha. Maybe I should paste a picture of him too.
What are the books of life? Gabriel asked.
They're a kind of diary said Sasha, distant. They have
since they learned to write. In it they write down their memories.
And also the sad things, like when dad died interjected
Sam and then turning to his brother, he shouted: Come on, Nico, I miss you
a race to the house.
Apparently, Sasha was a model mother, recognized Gabriel. Are
cared for them, he protected them but also encouraged them to be
independent. Apparently. But the reality was that was so good

actress who had come believing the role had long
representing. He could not fool him.
Taking advantage of the children had gone, Sasha kept the
Gabriel distances. His body ached so much tension, as if
I was constantly holding her breath and tensing the muscles.
Had barely slept the past three nights, since the arrival of
Gabriel.
The twins ran toward the house, eager to take
breakfast. Sasha hurried to achieve keeping
deliberately staring at them.
You're wasting your time. You know that, right? A not fool me. You
I know too well. I know your motives.
Gabriel had spoken very softly, as if they just
hear it. Her heart began to pound. Would you know him how
his presence was affecting sexually? Even the good time
I had spent on the beach with the children had managed to calm the
anxiety that had invaded his whole being. How could you feel
well? Is it ever able to break free of that addiction?
Had been released, she told herself with determination. There was
learned the difference between the destructive nature of feeling
He had ruled her relationship with Gabriel and ingredients that were
part of a healthy relationship. Would we still wanted him physically? By
Of course not!
'You think you know me,' she said as calmly Gabriel
as he could. But the girl you knew no longer exists. Carlo gave me ...
I -Carlo gave you what? -the brutal tone of his voice made estremecerse.-
Physical pleasure? Is it sexual satisfaction? -Te Did moan with pleasure when
you
She played with her decrepit hands when you penetrated his cock
Sasha withered? Or do you closed your eyes and thought about his money? Did
you
was this?
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And before he could react, he took her by the waist, pulled her toward
yes, and holding his fists behind his back with one hand and her face with
another so he could not turn his head, he took a deep kiss and
wild.
The children had gone inside the house, and the rhythmic sound
waves mingled with the beating of his heart. it was
immersed in a sea of sensations that could hardly resist: the
scent skin Gabriel, male hug, the way your
body is automatically settled to the pressure of his leg
his, her breasts swelling caused by pleasure
feel his tongue against hers in a slow and erotic scene that ended
by demolish their determination. His body was ready for
receive his touch. The pain I felt inside had become s
a twinge of desire.
A gull passed over their heads and Gabriel let go
sharply.
You think I can fool playing the role of widow
disconsolate, Sasha, but you can not. I know your game Gabriel
She is panting, his chest rising and falling heavily.
Sasha tried to concentrate on the movement of his chest as
He is trying to understand what had just happened.
He felt like vomiting. I had a knot in my stomach that was it
causing nausea. He wanted to strike back, give the same damage
he had done to her. He raised his head and looked at him intently.
Gabriel You know what? Deep down I feel sorry. You think you're strong
but in reality you are a poor man mutilated. You do not understand that
person can change because you have not changed. You do not understand that
there is love and respect because you've never experienced. The
only thing you can do is to project on others the damage they did to you
as a child. Thanks to Carlo I learned to be emotionally stable.
That was his gift, and it is best that I can offer my children. I have
changed. I'm not the girl you met.
Sasha got into the house keeping your head up.
Gabriel felt a burst of anger inside. Sasha Yea
I felt sorry for him? As soon going to realize that it should
Having booked their mercy for herself, because she would need.
How I dare Sasha, with the life I had, to accuse him of being a
man mutilated? As for what she had changed, that was
impossible. But for some reason he could not take his mind the image
hugging her kids while watching dolphins. Ultimately
out, regardless of what had been in his youth, he seemed
He has become the mother of two children who loved a
intensity he could almost feel physically. But at what it would take

acknowledge that he was wrong? To feel sorrow, regret? What
admit that he had lost something irreplaceable, something priceless?
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I could not let that happen. Even though the facts
She demonstrate otherwise had to keep believing that Sasha was not
Dependable, who merely play a role. He could not forget her
He had come to him after being with other men staying with him
because they had more to offer, as she had told him
openly. And he had abandoned for the same reason. I had to
be there when the time came when she decided to change
again. And replace the love of their children by another man. He owed to
Carlo and his sons. She did not care what he said, he did not trust her.
He could continue in his role as beloved Mother all the time
I would like, but the truth was that he had gotten to internal kids a
time to take off to New York. How could the good mother
he appeared having acted that way? Especially since
that Carlo was dying and that at that time the children
they would have needed more than ever. It was impossible.
Two hours later, Gabriel looked up from the computer and looked
through the window of the master suite which had become office
temporary. The demands of their work were such that would have sufficed
usually to prevent their thoughts revolved around Sasha,

but I could not help it. As much as she is bent on anger and show
contempt, he had been the reaction of your body. No doubt.
Would it have been lovers during her marriage to Carlo? That knot
I had stomach was not caused by pain, it was rather
anger at his cousin; that was for sure. When Sasha abandoned him
he refused to think about it or what he was doing, but now,
having it so close, it was impossible. His presence filled the house
and although he could not see physically, I could feel it all around.
He returned to his computer. Had just arrived several emails,
one of his secretary in Florence, who had asked him to
look for a teacher who could identify the strengths and weaknesses
of children in order to make a decision about his future.
Of course that would not allow the send Sasha inmates. Another
emails came from an architect who could convert the
hotel in a private residence. Gabriel had properties around the
world, but neither they nor their yacht constituted the environment for
educate children about nine years.
He opened it and read e-mails quickly and then
he ordered his secretary to send the two best tutors to
Sardinia so he could interview them. Sasha was not going to like what
I was planning. She would rather undoubtedly live at their expense in its
favorite environment: the exclusive shops and restaurants. Surely
I thought I was in control of the relationship and that as he had told
allowed to stay in Sardinia, he would continue to live with him.
But I had no intention to fund that lifestyle.
Although it would have been the best woman he had ever had. There was never
had this sexual chemistry with anyone. I had not planned to sleep with her
that first night. But Sasha had made it clear that she did want. AND
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a quick look at his arms tanned confirmed that, contrary
many other girls that abounded in places like St.
Tropez in high season, she had no puncture marks. Neither
It appeared to have been drinking. So he had taken the yacht and had
He smiled cynically to perceive his excitement.
Everything all this is yours? she had asked eyes
dishes. Normally, Gabriel kept fooled by girls as well:
beautiful, cheap, available. Girls throwaway, really. The
He was above that. The women with whom he lay were
larger and more professional. And more adept at hiding the
profession to which they were dedicated. But Sasha had jumped into his car,
and unwittingly had neither to look inviting finish aboard his yacht, his
smile had lit his face; certainly he had heard that men
They liked the eager and grateful women, and she had decided
displayed well.
What are you doing in St. Tropez? She had asked him as if
I imagine not.
I came with some friends, 'she said.
He imagined that when he spoke of "friends" was referring
actually "men" but he played along and asked

innocently
'And they will not be wondering where you are?
I do not think answered quickly. Actually they are not exactly
friendly. They are more well known.
-How Film director? he suggested gently.
Immediately he realized that he had not liked
question. He toyed with the handle of his capacho and avoided looking at him.
-The Does not matter now.
"What now? Now that you've found something better? "
But he will be looking insisted.
I said I was not interested.
The way he raised his head to look at him told him
I was interested in him.
I stood with the intention of asking a member of the
crew to take her. I was bored of St. Tropez and already had it
said the captain would leave the next morning bound for Italy
the Amalfi Coast. But to his surprise, he heard himself inviting
something to eat. She swallowed the food forward, but did not prove champagne
the waiter had served. When he finished, he asked if I wanted
wash a bit and she stared at him, confused, before exclaiming
haltingly:
'You say that you're going to sleep with me?
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It was that what he meant? Even if that had been the
clumsiness of the young by little he had changed his mind. He was
Women accustomed to sophisticated enough to
understand the rules of the game. Clearly, these women not looked like
she had done at the time, with such rapture and excitement. Without
probably because I was thinking about the money that was about to win,
I had thought sarcastically.
Down in the cabin, Gabriel as she watched Sasha
checking, fascinated, the luxury that surrounded her.
I can not believe me that this is a boat cried.
It's not that he corrected him dryly. It is not a boat, it is a
yacht. And the bathroom is there.
She directed his steps to the door he had indicated, still
clutching her capacho.
You can stop here handbag she said impatiently.
I've got him a passport and a return ticket.
No nothing will happen because you leave here.
The mats frayed clashed with luxury silk chair where
He deposited.
It had been granted a few minutes before following her to the bathroom. It was
in the shower, turning away. His body was thin, but good
shaped, with a narrow waist, curvy hips and a slightly
long thin legs. She had washed her hair, being
wet, it seemed darker. He shoved back and slid soap
his naked body, stroking her soft, perfect skin. it was then
when he turned and looked at him, and that itch that had begun to feel
when he had first seen suddenly became a
wild urgency. Just he remembers having clothing removed, nor have
got into the shower with her, but she could not forget the wet touch
slippery skin when touched. Nor did it feel to see
shiver with delight when groping her breasts with her hands and
He fiddled with his erect nipples. She had not withheld
leaving you feeling anything. And listen to the signs of arousal in a
unique and sensual way.
He had not kissed her at first. Almost he never kissed her
lovers mouth unless they being asked; for him it was a pleasure
overrated. Preferred encouraged seeing and touching, and observe the
reactions that reflected after another in the face while Sasha
She caressed her naked body had found it very erotic. The desire to
Young is not only reflected in his face, but in your body,
that he had shown his sexual vulnerability. At first he thought otherwise
I would be pretending but then said it was impossible to pretend that the glow
dyed his skin. But what finally made him lose control was
been invaded shudder when he began stroking the
pubis, such an intense way that was brought to the brink of orgasm.
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That was when he kissed her. He did driven by a force

Internal could not control, and it was a deep, possessive kiss. A
then she had led her hands to her own body and
She had whispered: 'Now it's my turn.
She had looked stunned before massaging his chest
with trembling hands. Suddenly, he leaned over and kissed his throat and
was leaving a trail of kisses down her collarbone while his hands
They started down making your belly tense impatience.
Gabriel had not counted on what was to experience the feel of her
soft lips looking one nipple.
-I Am the one who should do that to you -the stopped holding her
face in his hands.
She said nothing, he just fell on her knees in front of him and
into her mind slowly and carefully mouth causing more pleasure
I had never experienced intense.
At that time I did not understand the intensity of his reaction, and
still he did not understand. There was something and the soft touch of his lips, in
the
how she had touched and seen that led him to a higher level
excitation. He had taken her in his arms and carried to bed, and before
that her skin was dry he had cherished to take it to
orgasm, delaying your own to enjoy the erotic show
to witness.
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Chapter 6
She was not thinking about Gabriel let alone analyze the
disturbing episode of the beach itself is Sasha said. But he could not
help wondering why she was so afraid to call her a kiss
name and refer to it with the term "episode".
So Gabriel had kissed her. That only proved what she already
knew: that despite having tried to forget when he left
still retained the power to excite.
He dropped the brush and looked at his own reflection in the bedroom mirror.
He wore diamond earrings along with simple
plastic bracelets that children were chosen and wrapped
Carefully last Christmas, they were all that had value
for her. Carlo is the had given shortly after learning that
They were going to have twins. A gift from children and her father,
He had said fondly. She had tried to protest, arguing that a
two-carat earrings were too expensive, but Carlo had
insisted that this type of jewelry was essential to an Italian woman.
Then, when the twins were born, healthy and strong, he will
I said give her earrings less than two carats would
constituted an insult to their children.
Sasha shook his head. I could not sit there wasting
time. He had an important meeting in Porto Cervo before eating. In
As for Gabriel once in September, with children back in the
school, would not have to see him for months. But there were still
six weeks, and after three days in his company and was
struggling to overcome physical desire she felt for him, is he for? How did
that he was the cause of his sexual appetite? He was twenty years old and had
He lived in celibacy since he conceived the twins. A celibate life as
married woman. There had been many men who had left
abundantly clear that they were willing to help her to betray her
vows, but the truth was that he had not had the need.
The flame was extinguished forever. Or at least that was believed.
Gabriel's presence made her feel like she could be a
coincidence. Another man might make you feel exactly what
same. The problem was that he had no one to check that
theory. Sure to discover whether it was true or not, there was always the
ability to give your body what it asked him and ... what? Ask him to
Gabriel to take her to bed? Yes, he would love that, because not
He would only confirm what we already thought of it.
He grabbed the brush but put it back where it was. He knew from the
tart comments had heard him when I was with him, that childhood
Gabriel had been miserable. He had told his mother
he left and how his grandfather had treated him. This made him think
They had something in common, but declined to delve into his past for the simple
reason that she does not like to remember his.
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He had to struggle to overcome its past before joining

enough empathy and knowledge of herself to ask
Carlo on past Gabriel.
What Carlo told the left in awe, and even helped
understand why Gabriel had rejected the love she had her
she offered, recognized that he was going to need something more than the love of
a
person to heal emotional wounds. I had to learn to love themselves
same. And that was something that neither money nor success could buy, or
anyone give.
Sasha could not help but feel a deep sorrow for the child
Gabriel had been. Eyes welled with tears thinking about
rejection he had suffered. As an only child it was, it had depended
totally from her mother. And it had left following his
father to return to enjoy the life he missed.
But Gabriel was no longer a helpless child. He had become a
very dangerous man, and he should not be foolish enough to forget.
-Where Are you going?
Sasha froze on the stairs and flushed by raising
Gabriel looked up to see who was watching from the landing. No
heard the door open suite, and now felt like a child who
fish had just making mischief.
Why do you want to know? was his answer.
Gabriel looked up and down. It was very neat. She felt her
muscles tense, a sense that he did not like. Why the hell
It matters what she did or did not do? Their children were those who
concerned.
If you're thinking about take the children ...

No, I will not do it, 'interrupted Sasha. He had asked to
Isabella, the daughter of Mary, to take care of them. Isabella had two
daughters about the same age as the twins, and Sasha knew
I could entrust to their care.
No, I already imagined what Gabriel said. And then you go to mother
Loving.
Sasha felt he was beginning to get angry.
Though it's none of your business, I will say that I have to deal
of an issue and that's why I did not take the children with me.
'Do not have allowed it anyway' I said Gabriel
soltura-. I organized an interview with a preceptor for this afternoon
and naturally you will want to know them personally.
Sasha opened his mouth and closed it quickly, trying to organize their
thoughts.
'You have no right to forbid me to take the kids
-acert where I want to say. Also, they do not need a tutor.
They are on vacation.
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He had seen the effect that the ambition of some parents had on
their children. She wanted the twins had academic success,
of course, but also he wanted to take advantage of the freedom and joy
childhood.
They are my pupils, and I guess you know that to fulfill my
responsibilities need to know more about them.
Well, you just have to spend time talking to them and
listening, 'she said scornfully. Are children, Gabriel, and not one of
those companies that you buy. You will not understand them better by reading a
someone has written report as if it were a balance. What
you will do if the report says they are not smart enough
so you get a profit from your investment? Pass them to another?
Do not be ridiculous. You're always so melodramatic.
-Melodramtica! You're talking about my children! he reminded Sasha
alterada-. Do not give ...
Sasha shook his head. What was arguing with Gabriel? Not
I could describe his feelings in words, since Gabriel was
unable to feel anything.
'You can not behave well, Gabriel,' he said firmly. Not to be
I will allow. Also, what about the children? How do you think they're going to
take?
You make it sound that'll torture, when the truth is you
and you've gone through something similar.
-What?
They've made the selection examination for college, right?
Sasha the lower lip. Yes, they had done, and with that
typically masculine assertiveness themselves had boasted after
before her on how well she had left them.
The professor Fennini is a highly educated expert
prepared and with many years of experience.
Sasha gave him a blistering look.

You said you were going to interview a possible 'I said preceptor
dryly.
If necessary, will be the tutor of children, but of course
I want consideration first.
-And you with it again She outraged her. Are children,
Gabriel. Children. I know that you did not have a happy childhood but ...
'That's why I want to just make sure my heirs
They receive the necessary training.
Sasha had to grip the railing to steady himself.
His heart was beating hard.
-Tus Heirs? He stammered. What ... what do you mean?
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'Is not that clear? What I mean is that as children of Carlo are
my natural heirs, and I wonder if when they are older they
to be sufficiently prepared to assume that responsibility.
The relief I felt the left so exhausted as the terror that had
invaded before.
So that was right. Because you know that you and he are going to
subjecting my children to any psychological test. Has it crossed your
head thinking that maybe the kids want to have nothing to do with
your business, Gabriel? Nothing will stop you have your own children, you know?
I know, and had thought so, but I think the children of

Carlo are here and are related to me, it is logical that are
my heirs. As for what the psychological test, I think you have a
rather fevered imagination. The teacher will be limited to chat
with them a while, and then I'll interview him. And I want you to have
One thing is clear: my pupils not going to go to a school inmates.
Gabriel was exasperating. But there was no obligation
to justify their decisions before him, and certainly not going to ask her
understanding and support. He managed to control his instinct for self-defense and
he asked when the teacher is supposed to go?
-after Eating. And, believe it or not, your opinion will benefit
children as much as I do.
I'll be back by then. I will not have to do them
one question without being fiercely before he warned.
Desperately needed time to think. He had nausea and
He felt a little dizzy. Without another word, he ran down the
stairs and out into the garden, where Sam and Nico were extremely busy
teaching them to the granddaughters of Mara how well they were doing a
handstand.
-Menudo Pair! -rea Maria's daughter, looking fondly.
Since then, Sasha thought before to thank you for addressing
them and go to the park to pick up the handy little car
Carlo had bought.
It would not take long to reach Porto Cervo, the posh area
Costa Esmeralda, with its beautiful marina and upscale hotels. He wished
be properly dressed for the occasion. At this time of year
Puerto Cervo would be full of expensive yachts and elegant women,
immaculately dressed in designer clothes shopping in the

exclusive boutiques. The issue at hand required
it seems that still belonged to that world.
Gabriel frowned to see her go from floor window
above. She wore a brown linen, similar to what had
since the day he arrived. It was decorated with a gold bracelet
gleamed on her wrist and protected the eyes with large sunglasses and
dark-rimmed. As he sat in the seat
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car driver, he could see the glow pink natural nails
feet, which highlighted the delicacy of that part of your body.
Gabriel seemed to smell the warm scent, subtly invading
whole house: rooms for which she passed and this morning,
children's hair, as if he had bent to kiss their heads. That
fragrance floated everywhere except in the rooms that he had
claimed as their own.
There was only one place to go and to fixed. And one reason. The
of his mouth he hardened. It could be delivered to many men
I wanted, but I had to pay the debt he owed.
Sasha parked the car and, after walking for elegant streets, came to an
destination. He hesitated before pressing the buzzer.
The store owner came to meet in person, and led to
his private office.

'Would you like some coffee? he asked.
Sasha shook her head and opened her purse.
He had explained the purpose of his visit by phone
save a potentially embarrassing situation. In the absence of
surprise from him concluded he must be aware of the
Carlo financial problems.
He placed the bag on the table, took the case which had
carefully placed inside and began to open them one by one, the
emerald and diamond necklace with matching earrings that Carlo will
He had given his first wedding anniversary; diamond ring
Cartier knew that Sasha had cost more than a quarter of a million
euros; his huge solo engagement ring; gold ring surrounded
white diamond given to her last Christmas.
Finally, her hands on the diamond earrings and,
first, his fingers trembled.
How much can you give me for this? she asked the jeweler voice
low.
He took a magnifying glass and began to study each jewel. Not
He spoke for half an hour and when he finally did, the number who said
be willing to give it made her sigh of relief.
Carlo knew he had paid a lot more for them, but in any
case, it was enough to buy a house and, if he was careful to pay
school children. To these they liked school and she did not want
change them if he could help.
He opened his eyes in surprise when he saw the jeweler returned him the
pending.
I have made the calculation without them, 'he said softly.

You should keep them. I am sure that is what he would have liked his
late husband.
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Sasha bit her lip to stop trembling. He was so
Excited took several seconds to re-donning
pending.
Ten minutes later, he was heading and jewelry
decisively towards the bank with the check from the sale of her jewels in the
bag.
Carlo was very generous, but the old one. Sasha never had
real money, since he considered it unnecessary Carlo. Had a
monthly and available credit card, whose bills will
They came directly to him, but that was all. It seemed strange place
an amount as large in their own money. It was weird and
while liberating. Now, children and she would not depend on
Gabriel. If you wanted, you could book seats for the first flight back to
London. But the kids would not like them as end holidays
soon, so I was willing to tolerate the company of Gabriel, and
charity, for a few more weeks.
But by the time the children back to school ...
I had it all planned. First would rent a house near the school
to take the kids in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon. AND
hoping to find a job soon. Then look for a small house
to buy. They would not be rich, but they would manage. And their children would
be
happy, whether it be her assured. It was time to return home.
And Gabriel. He closed his eyes and braced himself. There was never
imagined their paths cross again. Gabriel and Carlo were
family but barely visible, and she had made it clear that there Carlo
I wanted to have no contact with Gabriel. He never could have
imagine, even in his worst nightmares, when he saw that would
feel what he felt now. She was tempted to do what he believed
I was already doing and find a lover, anyone would, for
proved herself were the years that had passed without relations
sex, combined with his presence, what happened was that the
wanting him sleepless nights. No Gabriel precisely. Your experience
sex was limited. Perhaps his body remembered more pleasure than
I had actually experienced. And if I could prove that to your body,
maybe he stopped tormenting well. Maybe I should try
prove that theory. Sasha stopped short. That would be crazy, and
very dangerous.
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Chapter 7
Professor Her children are lucky to have her as mother said, 'I
Sasha Fennini with a warm smile.
He had arrived early in the afternoon, just after lunch
he took after returning from Porto Cervo. And even though he had been
biased against him, he had to admit that he had won
completely, not because praised his work as mother. Children
they had also fallen well and Sasha admitted he had many tables to
when dealing with children and teach. He had spent most of the
Later participating in their activities, rather than just observe.
His questions were so subtle that the anxiety of
mother, Sasha had felt faded quickly.
I think the school holidays are for resting. I do not want
pressure them to do all kinds of activities. I want to learn on their
themselves and enjoy life.
'That comes through in the way he relates to them he said
Professor with another smile approvingly. And I hope having
reassured for the quarter that had to be internal in the
school.
Sasha had felt relieved after treating the matter with him
private, especially when he assured him that, after talking with them,
it was clear that the children had enjoyed quite the novelty of
Internal be in school and that they had not suffered for it.
But she did not want Gabriel noticed their vulnerability. Of all
However, with Gabriel in front, could not understand the teacher give you
He preferred to change the subject.
Gabriel has expressed concern in regard to this
issue explained the professor. It is perfectly understandable that the two
have taken this matter it up with me, but I assure you in

Since the father was dying and that you were trying
get the best medical care, he had no alternative. I have
heard the doctor who was to visit in New York. He has obtained
excellent results in the treatment of cancer.
I know. And I expected ... But as I said, the disease
Carlo was too late and could not do anything.
On second thought, maybe it would have been better to stay with him.
He did what he thought -the most convenient reassured the professor. In
As for the kids, you better be with his friends in an environment
safe and emotionally stable rather than witness the trauma of what
I was going home. I imagine there were many times
those who wished to have them with you in comforting added
a sweet tone.
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Sasha it took back the tears that threatened to poke a
eyes. It was the first time a person understand how much
It had needed someone to lean on when Carlo was
He is dying.
Yes, those were admitted on a grimly. But I did not want
turn my shoulder to cry.
No I see it as the kind of mother who would do that to their children 'I
He said warmly. It's obvious what they are balanced and happy. You
Gabriel said before that, since he wishes to encourage interest
Children in politics and international business would be a good idea
take advantage of natural interest shown by the environment and history, and
you have encouraged them.
He was a tall, elegant and slightly stooped way, and
Sasha was impossible not to respond positively to its warmth and
enthusiasm.
The kids were out playing. Sasha watched from the
room window that Gabriel had become firm,
while waiting for the teacher finished her coffee and communicate them
their observations.
Judging by the sounds they made, children were playing something
it related to car racing.
No saw Gabriel approached her to look out the window at the
children, but he felt his presence immediately. He wanted to depart
but it was too close to the window. And he was too
next to it.
I think you are training for Formula One's tone of
professor was serious, but when Sasha looked discovered that shone
eyes. I have been told that Nico is the mechanical and Sam the pilot.
-More Ferrari had better not rest on their laurels said Gabriel
dryly.
All right that has allowed them to retain the proximity derivative
the fact of being twins and at the same time has encouraged each
one to develop their own skills' I said the professor.
Nico is thinking and acting 'said Sam Gabriel
abruptly.
Sasha stared at him, unable to hide his surprise
He caused that Gabriel was able to describe the personalities of the
boys in such a precise considering that just
know. It bothered him more than he was willing to admit that
I could distinguish physically but this ...
Gabriel saw the surprised look Sasha Is something wrong? 'I
he asked tersely.
You've captured the differences between Sam and Nico very quickly he admitted reluctantly.
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Gabriel shrugged, as dismissively
matter. It does not quite understand why it was so easy
distinguish why I knew I had to communicate with them
different way. What he did know, however, it was that somehow
these children had penetrated deep, making him feel something unknown
for him. He had always worked very well instinct when
judge people, and had been able to analyze keeping
distances. How he had done with Sasha? What he had said the teacher
regarding the reasons that led her to put inmates had children
It has been reasonable enough to take notice. And nobody
I could pretend emotion that she had tried to contain. She had no
forced to admit the possibility that perhaps he had seen things

from the standpoint that best suited him. At that time, his
conscience was asked to answer honestly some
difficult questions. Sasha had to admit that was a good mother,
Or not?
No, he would not recognize anything, he told himself harshly. He felt the
old pain that always accompanied the memory of Sasha. For him
corner of his eye he saw the professor approached her to talk, and
Gabriel immediately approached too.
Sasha tensed. What did he think he would do? Tell him to
Fennini teacher who would not allow the children to have a preceptor?
Unlike Gabriel, it was flexible enough to
change your mind. As said the teacher, children
they were at an age when they were like sponges capacity
to absorb information and learn new skills, provided that
is the present properly. He could see the teacher making a
good work. And she would be there, watchful, and could intervene whenever they
believe necessary.
I have a special curiosity about life notebooks
Children said the professor. It is a concept that, as I could
check has been successful in treating children with
problems, but I have to admit that I had never happened
use it to take note of a happy childhood.
Sasha shrugged. He not is going to tell the teacher your own
childhood or explain that he learned to make during his life notebooks
therapy.
'I wanted, at first, to encourage children to write an
daily explained. And that led to life notebooks, which are more
them more interactive and fun. We decided we would count on sections
private, where they could pour their innermost thoughts, and sections
open where would write about what we do together.
Gabriel listened in silence. Teacher praise to Fennini
Sasha work as mother did nothing but confirm what he already had
seen for himself. Why it was taking so leave
beliefs, preconceived and now untenable, that Sasha was not a
good mother? Was it, perhaps, because he wanted to be part of the lives of the
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twins? And of Sasha, the woman who had left? Fear
old was stirred in the depths of his being. Would it be possible to blame
Sasha leave that he had had him and not her?
Once laid bare the underground doubt Gabriel could not
desorla. When, a while later, the professor shook his hand and said,
eagerly I am waiting to start working with children
next, and Sasha week made it clear that he intended to spend the
rest of the day with their children, Gabriel returned to take the same questions
again and again like a man hurts a wound and pokes
although this will produce more pain.
Still he is comparing his own childhood with twins, not what
regarding comfort, but love received. They surfaced in his mind
memories that had never allowed evoke: pictures of when I was

child, holding her arms to her adoptive mother and retreating,
distressed and bewildered, to the blows and insults her. He thought he heard
his grandfather complaining bitterly about him as sole heir. His
grandfather had never concealed his resentment, thought Gabriel.
Cousin Gabriel ... 'I was telling Sam in wheedling tone. Nico
and I were thinking that if mom asks what we want for
our birthday, which is next week, you could tell that
we need a good bike, the elderly.
Gabriel took a moment to absorb what Sam was him
He is saying.
Is it your birthday next week? he asked. I did
quick mental calculation. Next week ... That meant
Sasha had conceived twins at the time they lived together.
Which meant she had betrayed him with Carlo when yet
were lovers. He felt his blood boiling with indignation.
Sam nodded enthusiastically, head outside to the effect that they had
His words provoked.
We're going to be ten years old he said proudly.
Mom says we can not have good bikes until no
Nico have eleven o'clock he reminded his brother.
Gabriel had to talk to Sasha, and needed already do. He left
children and he headed downstairs.
Found in the living room, watching the material he had left the
Professor Fennini.
I need to talk to you, 'he said gravely.
Sasha was about to tell her that she would not talk to him, but
he had already grabbed the arm and was leading his suite by
force.
What are you doing, Gabriel? he protested. You can not treat me like you
belonged. I think not allow. Where are the children?
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-Children Are well He paused and took a breath before
anunciar-: Sam just told me that her birthday is the week
next.
Sasha felt a cold sweat came over her. I would have given
anything to deny it but could not.
Yes, it is true affirmed.
'So those conceived in December.
He was given the heart in her throat, making it almost
choking panic.
There was ... there were complications, and ... and gave birth earlier than expected
she said, avoiding his question.
With how much advance? Are not you go on to say that three months? He suggested sarcastically.
Sasha felt his cheeks began to burn.
You -the conceive when you were still with me, right? Gabriel asked slowly.
There was no escape. Sasha had feared for so long that

time, which somehow was glad to finally have arrived.
-Contstame, Dammit! The conceive when you were still
with me, yes or no? Gabriel repeated angrily, shaking her.
Sasha knew the contemptuous coldness of his anger, but never
he had been possessed by such rage. He felt vulnerable and defenseless, but
I knew I could not hide the truth any longer.
Yes, he admitted, ducking his head and waiting to arrive the
unavoidable charges. Carlo had warned him this might happen, but
she had insisted would never allow that keep most
distance possible with Gabriel to make sure that did not happen. E,
naively, I had begun to feel safe, and to believe that Gabriel
He would never realize the deception.
Carlo -Veas behind me. You were sleeping with him when yet
sleeping in my bed; you entregabas him when I thought you were mine.
You kept saying you loved when you were pregnant
it! Gabriel could not contain the ferocity of his feelings. That
she had left was terrible, but discover that new
betrayal was more than he could bear.
Sasha looked at him in amazement.
I do not look like me, like you did not understand what I'm saying Gabriel said angrily. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Carlo you got pregnant when you were sleeping with me yet.
How long did it last? How long have you been sleeping with
while I thought he ...?
-No Was well! Sasha protested weakly.
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You're lying. Of course it was so Gabriel rubbed his eyes
with his hand, as if physically repulsive looking at her result. Not
You thought about the risk you ran, having sex without
protecting him?
No he planned. It was an accident ... a mistake!
And you say it. Carlo Did you said you loved me
and when you wore in your bastards?
Sasha raised his hand, but Gabriel caught in time.
Why you told me you loved me? Better, let me guess.
Why not? You seem determined to Sasha said 'I guess all
hard.
-Restarle Nine months to a year is no guess work replied
without beating him bluntly. I imagine you would not leave me
until you are sure Carlo. Of course he should not have to go mental
times. An older man, childless, without heirs. And there you were,
offering not one but two.
I did not know they were twins at that moment ...
Mom, Mary has come ...
Sasha quickly wrenched the arm of Gabriel at the voice of
Sam out of the room.
Sasha looked at the window and watched the moonlight it spread
by the darkness of his room. His heart was pounding and I felt the
moisture of tears running down his face. He had been dreaming

Gabriel with such intensity that even awake, still felt his
presence beside her.
His nerves could not take it any more situations like this.
When Gabriel faced her to pose as Birthday
twins, thought ...
During the first two years of their marriage Carlo and she had
He lived quietly in the apartment he had in New York. Not
They had publicly announced the birth of children. Family
Calbrini, although extensive, was not close, and no one had
never interested to know the exact date of birth.
Until now.
He was wide awake, and kept beating around the
last. Gabriel and she were having a few weeks on the Caribbean island
Santa Lucia I enjoyed the sun on board the yacht when it came Gabriel
Carlo to visit a hotel that was considering purchasing. They were found
by chance in a restaurant near the harbor and Gabriel introduced him to
his second cousin; Sasha immediately perceived authenticity and
kindly older man. Gabriel and she had more than a year
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together and frustrated to note that, although Gabriel was the lover
perfect from the sexual point of view, still emotionally
keeping his distance.

Why do not you ever tell me you love me? He recalled having
asked the first Christmas spent together. They were in Paris.
Gabriel had spent an exorbitant amount of money on buying
designer clothes and fancy lingerie and very provocative.
Because I do not want him had replied quietly.
They were in bed suite Sasha still remembered George V.
the knot of pain that made his throat.
But she must love me There was protested desperately.
You must love me, Gabriel, you have to love me.
He had thrown to mourn but rather to comfort, Gabriel had
limited to separate the sheets and get out of bed.
No I'm good sentimental scenes, Sasha 'she had
said coolly. I do not want because I do not believe love exists. Da
thanks for what we have, because I assure you there are many
women who change for you without hesitation.
He dressed and, before leaving the room, he said:
I'm going out. I hope that when I return not keep saying
stupidities.
She did not understand how he could be so brutal. They had been together
for months, and she had naively believed that someday he would
I loved her. At the end of the day, he knew she loved him. He'd said
many times. He, for his part, never tired of making love,
the money was spent on it and spent much time in his company. To
Sasha, all this was only a test of her emotional bond
He craved. Within half an hour had ceased to mourn and had
convinced that he had said these things unintentionally and
just as a man he was, he was reluctant to recognize their

feelings.
Those were the conclusions reached in Paris, and it was
they still believed months later in the Caribbean. She loved her; that
I was convinced. If not, why he was making love to her? And not
I had no doubt in this regard: he loved to sleep with her.
Not only he could not get enough of her sexually, but had the feeling
I always wanted more. Sometimes he woke in the morning
writhing sleepy pleasure to feel his hands on her body,
and at night he slept late, feeling his body floated
satisfaction.
The routine on board the yacht was simple. Generally, Gabriel
worked in the mornings and afternoons, when pressed the lazy sun
Caribbean, they made love, and not always in bed.
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Gabriel was an imaginative lover who liked games
erotic and sensual.
Sasha did not remember the first time I had been alone with
Carlo. It must have been during one of those mornings when
yacht left to wander alone through the exclusive shops of the port
Caribbean.
What we did not forget, however, it was how quickly acquired
Carlo habit of getting coffee in the morning, and

flattered that he felt the day he invited her to see the hotel
I was planning to acquire. He soon confide his feelings for Gabriel
and that was when Carlo told him that he had been unhappy
one childhood.
'That will bring us even more-he had thought her with a mixture of
compassion and relief. I also had a bad time during my childhood.
Poor Gabriel.
He recalled how Carlo had tried to explain that child trauma
Gabriel had not affected him in the same way your own
childhood had marked her, but she would not listen because it was not
I wanted to hear. I kept thinking that he loved her.
In fact, he had shared his conviction with the same Gabriel
the eve of his eighteenth birthday. He took several weeks
dropping hints about the big day when Gabriel, stroking
It stomach after making passionate love, he had
I asked:
Come on, tell me. You wear long hinting that it will be your
birthday. What would you give away?
She had imagined the same scene a few years later: the sun
illuminating the plush furnishings of the cabin, the huge bed unmade, the
muscular and tanned body of Gabriel, naked, watched with
irrepressible desire. Gabriel approached her and grabbed her nipple between
index finger and thumb and played with it with a skill that made
sigh with pleasure.
'I' I wish she had said, excitedly. I wish you and I love you,
Gabriel, and want us to be together forever. And ...
Before he could utter another word he had dropped and

He had risen from the bed visibly angry.
'What are you playing, Sasha? he had asked.
I do not know what you mean, 'he had answered her honestly.
It is not a game, Gabriel. I love you. And now that Carlo told me about
that happened to you as a child, I feel closer to you ...
Gabriel had not let her continue. He leaned over the bed and the
He sat up abruptly.
-more Closely? But what are you talking about, Sasha? I just feel
closer to you, as you say, when I sleep with you. All these
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nonsense about love do not go with me, you know. Or, at least,
You should know by now.
She had never seen him so angry, and began to tremble to see that
his naive fantasy pieces are made. But he could not help but follow
begging.
I know you're not seriously saying. You have to love me, Gabriel;
I'm sure, 'he had told her desperate clinging to him as
him away violently. Tell me you love me, Gabriel ...
'I have to do it, Sasha. Your duty is to give me pleasure. It is
there: you give it to me and I will pay back. Look, fuck you is
fantastic and I know I'm not the first guy tells you. You and I we
We had a great time together, and we can keep doing it. But I do not want to
to hear another word about love.
Something inside her had withered at the words but
headstrong, she decided to ignore them.
But someday you want to marry and have children. We could have a
precious children, Gabriel.
That's the last thing I want, and in any case never would
with a woman like you.
He was gone, leaving her lying in bed, dazed and frightened.
They went out to dinner that night, but she was still confused.
Just he ate, but she opened her gift and thanked diligently. When
he left the restaurant he grabbed her in the darkness of the street, pulled down
strapless dress to mold her breasts with her hands and
He stroked furiously impatient as he kissed her. But she was not
able to feel anything. What had happened had left her numb.
When they returned to the yacht, he had practically ripped her clothes
in their haste to possess. Upon entering the cabin he had pushed
against the door and down the dress as she pressed her mouth against his
naked body.
He took her quickly, not without first putting a condom on
the erect member with which penetrated deeply climaxing
almost immediately.
-Take Advantage of what we have, Sasha he had said breathing
Because haltingly's what I think I do. Sex is everything
we have and all that we will never have. Sex, not love. But you know
well that I can not live without it, and you can not live without me.
His voice sounded triumphant. Silently, Sasha stood. He knew
I had to do.
It was three in the morning when it was presented in the hotel
which Carlo was staying. At first, the receptionist had shown
reluctant to phone him, but eventually relented.
He says that Sasha upload addressed reluctantly.
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It was obvious he had gotten out of bed. He had opened the door
dressed in a silk robe monogrammed betraying his
true age. The contrast between him and Gabriel could not have been more
cruel. Gabriel slept naked, as men who are in their
peak of potency. There, under the aggressive direct light
focused Carlo, Sasha had realized how old it was. More than
I thought.
I've left Gabriel he had said bursting into a sea of
tears.
Carlo had taken her to a chair and was convinced that
sit. Then, calm and compassionate, he had asked gently:
You're pregnant, right?
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Chapter 8
Sasha threw back the covers and got out of bed. He knew he would not
get back to sleep. Although the curtains were drawn
I could see the pale gleam of dawn.
It was five in the morning and should be asleep, not standing there,
one dressed in demure maternity nightgowns she had
taught to carry and reliving pain that was ten years older
destroying it inside.
When Carlo found out his secret, she lost completely
control of herself.
He wanted to tell me he loved me, but he was unwilling to
do sobbed. All he wants from me is sex. I do not mind in
all.
Romantic fantasy with a happy ending had imagined had
broken into pieces. And though he did not dare to confess that Carlo a
that old man who could have been his grandfather had that night
It was the first in which, instead of wanting to Gabriel to feel touched by
he had felt despair. He did not want, nor ever want. But
she had stubbornly clung to their own need.
Do you think he will change his mind? 'she had asked her between
sobs. Perhaps you could talk to him ...
You want me to tell you expecting a baby? and he had asked,
then added, Note, Sasha, that maybe not
reacts as you'd like. Maybe he insists he does not want the child
and forces you to ...
It was at that moment when he gave his first tentative step towards
maturity, Sasha said. Within seconds, he had placed his

hand on her stomach, still flat, in a protective gesture, leaving
aside his own needs, he recognized that there was truth in what
Carlo had just said.
No, he said shaking his head. Gabriel must not know
Never.
Carlo behaved beautifully. He took care of everything: chartered a plane
private, she married her before she could refuse and insisted that
it was best for everyone. At the end of the day, it united the baby a blood tie
and had no children of their own. He was a wealthy man I would have loved
parenting, and marriage would be a mere formality as would not live
as spouses.
She could not be Gabriel's lover and the mother of his son, they said
I noticed that she always left her courage. And never allow
that his son's childhood had been so unhappy as his. That baby
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I would receive all the love she was able to give; all the love
his father had refused.
Fortunately for twins, the medical expert from New York
Carlo had insisted on hiring even though it had cost a
Fortunately, he was wise enough to realize
Sasha had a problem. The counseling he received before
and after childbirth made him realize that he could love inadequate
give so much harm to a child as a lack of affection. And that, according to Sasha,
It was the best gift that Carlo had never done to her and her
children.
When the twins began to take their first steps she
also he learned to walk alone emotionally. Children and she
They were learning and growing together. His love for them he had
cured.
Carlo had always treated them as their own children.
They had also done the rest of the people, no one was there
It happened consider the possibility that Carlo was not the father. A Gabriel
Unless anyone. Carlo had told Sasha that Gabriel
considered a fool for marrying her. That had made
to distance the two men for the relief of Sasha, who did not want to
Gabriel in their lives because I knew I could not trust herself
He is in his presence.
The last thing he had expected to happen when Carlo was
dying was to send for Gabriel and entrusted the future of
their children. I felt a mixture of anxiety and approval to view
naturalness with which Gabriel was related to the twins. And when
it was addressed to her at the thought that at last birthday
He had learned the truth. Sasha had been in a permanent state of
alert since arriving in Sardinia, hoping to look Gabriel
children and would be reflected in them. For her, it was a slow torture view
talk to them and see how innocent as he looked at the
Children, who were willing to love without even knowing who he was.
He was the father Gabriel was something that not even you had
He crossed his mind. The deception that he thought he had discovered was so
implausible compared to the simplicity of truth, treated
someone else, she would have laughed pure disbelief. How could he not
realize that the twins were his? How I could believe it,
or any other woman, you might want to leave his bed, the bed of a
man in the sexual climax, to go to a man like Carlo,
Elder and weakened sexually? For how smart he was, Gabriel
He was proving not to be very insightful. Yes, I knew that Gabriel always
He is using condoms to avoid getting her pregnant, but since when
those were absolutely foolproof contraception? About
all with a man as sexually active as Gabriel had been
with her.
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Could not he even ask, especially taking account
Sasha had much loved, maybe they were his children?
Obviously not.
And she knew why. For its infancy. Because it had not happened
thinking that maybe he wanted to be the father of the twins.
Sasha did not realize she was crying until she felt the
Tears streaming down his hands, which was gripping the frame
window.
The boys were his heirs, and that was enough for Gabriel. Of
He did not want them to be otherwise. He felt nothing for them, the
Just as no feelings for Sasha. Although it was not entirely
Incidentally, since I did feel something for her: anger, contempt, bitterness and,
However, the need to punish her for having left.
What she felt for him? He thought he did not have the strength to
answer that question. He had begun to ache.
The sky was clearing. Sasha opened the shutters: the air smelled
clean. A walk along the beach would help to clear. It was very early
and no one would be raised. Also, the beach was private enough
like to walk in my nightgown which, after all, covered part of
her thighs.
Ten minutes later I was on the shore. Walking barefoot
the sand was a delightfully elementary and childlike pleasure, thought Sasha.
I stopped to watch the waves crashing on the shore receiving the
first rays of the sun.
What was happening? Not worth tempting to sleep
these
heights,
He recognized
Gabriel
neither
follow
there
lying
tormenting images of Sasha and Carlo. How could he not have
I noticed that Sasha had been doing? How could he not
I have felt the touch? He had thought he had a debt
slope with her for leaving her, but had not imagined
enormity of his treachery. She had been pregnant with another man
and he had not heard. He had been making love with Carlo
while still slept with him, and he had done so skillfully
Gabriel had not suspected at any time. He had taken
by an idiot, and he had used while waiting for Carlo
She offered him what he really wanted.
He felt a rush of feelings in the depths of his being, a
physical pain that burned him like fire. In the wild confusion
his thoughts a voice asked if they would not be their feelings
that they were causing so much pain. But he had no feelings.
Especially for a woman like Sasha. Her relationship with her had been
purely sexual. What hurt him was that she had paid to
another man about sexual favors they should have been
exclusively yours. The he kept and that gave her the right to use
unique to your body.
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He realized early on that the strange noise he heard in his
head was the squeak of their own teeth. Had he enjoyed Sasha
betraying? Had he been planning his future with Carlo while
She hugged him? His head was about to explode and felt a sharp pain
chest. He did not understand what was happening to him, or why, but
I knew I could not lie there tormenting a minute

more. He threw back the covers and shorts set, a walk through the
It would help to calm beach.
Gabriel saw Sasha before it what he saw.
He stood by the shore, facing the sea, the morning breeze
tissue encircling her nightgown to her body. She could see his silhouette
as clearly as if she were naked: the gentle swell of her
breasts contrast to the hardness of the erect nipples; the waist
narrow hips curve, the slit of the column followed by
roundness of the buttocks, which was marked by groove nightgown.
He began to recall images from the past. Other times, another beach,
as deserted as that. Sasha standing with a straw hat all
clothing, sinking a small fishing net in a pond
marine, so focused on his activity had not heard approaching
her until he hugged her from behind and started down her body
hands, stroking over and over her breasts, belly and inside
her thighs until she began to moan with desire. Yet
He remembered the damp warmth of her lips no longer hidden
sex but opened to receive his touch. She had pressed
his body against hers, urgently, and had relied on the rock
front of him. He had possessed the right there pushing hard
inside her, feeling her muscles clung
greedily sex.
Erection growing in his shorts was product
their memories, and had nothing to do with this, he reasoned Gabriel.
Sasha no longer had the ability to excite, unless he allowed it.
Suddenly, Sasha turned and saw him. During a second
He stared and suddenly turned and ran.

Gabriel's reaction was instinctive and immediate. Sasha felt the
rumble of their own feet in the sand attenuated the thud of
his heartbeat. He was closing the distance between them but
he ran owned by the instinct of prey escapes
hunter.
Finally he reached and, gripping the arm pulled her with
so hard it almost knocked him off balance. I could hardly breathe and
heart seemed about to burst in the chest, thought Sasha.
He tried to pull away, but Gabriel not only left her that attracted even
closer to him. She tried to push him with his free hand, but in the
moment he felt the touch of his skin took it a
trembling she could not control. He sighed and his eyes despair
They opened to the maximum to see how Gabriel leaned toward her and kissed
with a wild passion that made him remember the past. She had no
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choice but to surrender and, closing her eyes, she was furious that kiss,
letting him punish her mouth as she dug her nails into the
moves back in response to their hostility.
The part of her that was still able to think he knew
She resented his desire for her, but not enough to stop
mold his body with his hands as if he were taking possession of
it. I had triggered something that neither could

control, Sasha, giddy thought. A stream ran urgent desire
through his veins knocking over their last defenses. Not so long ago
... he felt that way too long. His body followed the instructions
his brain ordered semiconscious. She shuddered and moaned, arching
groove to accommodate the burning mouth of Gabriel on his skin. Each
passing second torment became more and more intense. He felt that
family pressure in the lower abdomen that opened the lips of her sex and
impelled to spread her legs and bent over so he could Gabriel
itself felt she was ready for him. His throat issued
a deep groan, halfway between purr and growl, feeling the
pressure of his erect member against her body. Automatically,
He slipped his hand into his crotch and felt the bulge forward
He pressed the fabric of his pants. Sasha had enough lucidity
to ensure that they could not be seen from the house, they were
protected by the rocks, but he doubted if it would have mattered if
Otherwise while Gabriel stroked her nipple through her nightgown.
Gabriel sighed passionately ... while trying impatient
to unzip his pants and closed his eyes in agony
pleasure to discover that she wore nothing underneath. He ran the tip of
his fingers the rigid member bated breath of pure pleasure.
He waits she ordered him roughly. He looked at her and shook his head
while he is reaching for her nightgown. Sasha nodded and raised
arms so he could take it off easily. Before he could
lower arms, the mouth of Gabriel had reached one of her breasts
naked and was already savoring the scented warmth of yesteryear
sensually while he is nibbling dark and erect nipple
hand stroked her other breast. It was more pleasure than she could
bear. He screamed as he said clawed back and
said her name moaning. There was no need to say anything;
They seemed to move in unison, as if their movements were
agreed in advance. Gabriel bent down and lifted his body to
draw her. To wrap your legs, Sasha seared his skin
rub sand on her feet, which did nothing but remind
that pleasure is more intense if accompanied by a pang.
Maybe that's why so overwhelmingly needed because without it your life
It was gray and dull. Maybe she needed to get to feel pain
something. These disjointed thoughts vanished as Sasha
He circled his neck with your arms. He is leaning against the rock behind him,
Gabriel entered her heatedly. Immediately, she threw her head
back moaning with pleasure as his muscles caught the
Member of him so firmly that it seems that one be formed.
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With her it had always been, and that certainty was chasing dreams
and he harassed her pride. No other woman had made him feel so.
No other woman had managed to cross the barrier that
He became unique. How could I have lived so long without it?
Sasha Gabriel shook his arms with all the force of the
I was able, savoring the most of every one of his thrusts. Would
that penetrate more deeply that the whole possessed. He was so

excited I felt like mourn. She responded to his thrusts with
rhythmic movements. He put his mouth to her throat and began to
caress her lips savoring the intense salty taste and you
so familiar. Nothing hear him shouting his name felt
first spasm of ecstasy. Wordlessly, Gabriel released her, breathing
heavily. It must be the lack of oxygen which made him tremble
head to toe like a young man who had just possess a
woman first thought weakly.
Sasha could not believe what he had just done. Her body trembled
with such violence that could barely keep his feet. She felt weak, but
while full of satisfaction. He raised his eyes to look at Gabriel.
'I owed what he told her breathing heavily. I you had this
and much more.
The sun dazzled and Sasha pulled aside ara avoid light
blinding. She saw her nightgown lying on the sand. He picked it up and put it on
the
Once I felt a great emptiness inside, similar to that suffered the
victims of an accident, whose trauma prevented perceive their bodies
severity of his injuries.
Without addressing a word to Gabriel he started walking towards the
home.
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Chapter 9
Fortunately it was very early one had risen
yet, because when Sasha finally reached his room he was
trembling printing.
She lay in bed with her eyes full of tears What had
happened? He had behaved like ... like a woman who had
He had sex for ten years. Or as a woman who had sighed
for ten years by the only man she had loved.
Gabriel felt the warm spray of the shower, which erased the scent
Sasha had left on her skin. Something had happened to him on the beach,
something so
wonderful and enlightening part of him wanted to keep
forever in his memory. Something that, on the one hand, it made her want to hug
Sasha gently and keep it forever at his side but otherwise
he was afraid, since questioned everything I believed in, and
what had cemented his life. But he forced himself to face the
situation realism, although he had not planned what happened on the beach,
the truth was that showed what he thought was true and Sasha
it did not was more loyal to Carlo than it had been to him. But
then where is the moral euphoria should be feeling was? What
the triumph? Why it felt more like a former addict
that he had gone to try their drug and had discovered that the
pleasure that inspired him was much stronger than I remembered?
He would do it again, just once, to enjoy the
possibility to leave and hurt. That was what he had told
himself, but he knew beforehand that it would not be because he was already
thinking about the next time, and the next, and the next ... they Were
nesting in him feelings that ...
Feelings? But if he did not have them, especially to Sasha.
The huge discrepancy between what we want to think and what he was
It really happening left him petrified. The pain he had thought incapable
feeling he was to grip the heart. On the beach, while
Sasha shook his arms at that moment of utter calm
follows the intensity of the climax, a slight thinking like a feather
it had happened to his heart, warning him that time
intimate lived with Sasha was the happiest you could experience
ever.
He felt unidentified body aches, and I knew there
They were caused by the tension that gripped his muscles as
I walked through the hotel and the architect Gabriel, who had gone to study
the possibility of converting it into a private residence.
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The three were abroad and the architect was giving his
opinion.
-I Do not think it will pose major problems she told Gabriel
with was excited, and he added to Sasha in tone approvingly: The
truth is that the architect did an excellent job of turning the house
in hotel; He retained the original details.
Sasha had to be forced to pretend I was hearing. And not because

I was not interested: architecture and interior decoration were
two of his passions, but at that moment I was feeling the
aftermath of a very different passion. While his body remained under the
effects of a sensual lassitude, his mind was self-flagellation.
But it was no use to continue tormenting. What was done was done, and
now he had to carry the consequences And, the worst of which was that
standing there less than five meters from Gabriel made him feel a
unbridled lust.
It would have given anything to reject his invitation to join him and
the architect in his home inspection, but his pride would no
allowed. And now he was suffering the consequences of being so
proud, feeling every nerve ending was
issuing clear and dangerously erotic messages. Gabriel could
She is dressed with a beige chinos and a white linen shirt, but
She kept seeing her naked body, which made her face
covered with a thin layer of sweat that Sasha wanted not dismiss the
scent of desire he felt for Gabriel.
While I was trying to keep his distance as he could,
standing on one side of Gabriel to stay out of his line of sight and
walking by the architect, remained fully aware of their
presence.
One thing I'd like to build in the garden is a park
Hard ground for children.
'What your kids skate and ride a bike? asked the
an architect. I think it's a good idea.
Sasha held her breath as she waited for Gabriel
corrected and told that Sam and Nico were not children but their wards, but the
architect had spoken again.
My kids are always complaining that they can not make those
things; my wife you think that the roads are very dangerous for the
traffic. The truth is that this house is very well placed: it is the
Porto Cervo close enough so that they can make use
their services but not attached to it. They also have a section
private beach, which is great.
-The Land has been in the family for generations Calbrini
Gabriel said as Sasha 'I shuddered, guilty, remembering what
they had done on the beach.
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The architect was looking at your rental car with the clear
intention of leaving. Sasha sighed in relief, apologized and walked away, oblivious
how to Gabriel turned to look at her.
He found the children on the terrace, talking excitedly with
Professor Fennini of the visit they would do that evening to places
history of the island. Without turning, Sasha knew Gabriel
He had followed her.
A glass of water served as trembling hands that shed
part of the contents of the jar on the table. In a desperate attempt
by increasing the distance between her Gabriel he took a misstep
and almost he lost his balance. He had stumbled onto one of the chairs
wrought iron had it not been for Gabriel, that reaching out covered
Sasha making the metal crashed against his fingers.
He could not move; I could do nothing. Your body is recreated in the
forbidden pleasure of physical contact with Gabriel. They are shaking hands
So he could hardly hold the glass. He realized that children's
They are watching. What should they be thinking? They were too young to
understand what was happening to him. However, guilt
the blush.
Mom, why do not you put your rings? - Asked Nico
curiosity.
The initial relief was followed by a tense moment. He looked at the
left hand, lacking any ornament except the thin ring
weddings.
Car-and is here, kids, time to go cheerfully announced
The teacher.
Sasha accompanied them to the entrance, where the driver was waiting in the
Conditioned Mercedes Gabriel had rented for visits with
teacher, and children goodbye with a kiss and a brief hug.
Gabriel was talking with the teacher and Sasha took to
back to the house. His head ached. I was in shock from the
morning and still could not reconcile what he had done with the truth
the relationship that bound her to Gabriel. The despised, resented him, and
even knowing that he had allowed ...
Allowed? What happened that morning was not the result of
a conscious decision. Like a raging storm, it had been impossible
control.
Sasha.
She stiffened, unsure if turned toward him or run like
I had done in the morning. It was not just her face that burned, but his
full body.
He forced himself to turn and face him.
'You have come to answer Nico she said. Why not take
rings?
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Sasha took a deep breath.
Because I have sold she said calmly. The jewels were all
of value at property, so I took them to Puerto Cervo and
I sold. When children return to school, I think investing money in a
London house where the three live. Contrary to what you think,
Gabriel, do not want to live at your expense.
What have you sold the jewels? Gabriel felt invaded by a
mixture of anger and fear. If Sasha had money would need it to
it. And he longed that she needed him.
Yes Sasha said quietly. Children need a stable home.
They are my sons, and I will do everything possible to give them that, Gabriel.
You could have ...
-What? -what challenge. You for help? I think we both know
how would you have reacted, right? Head hurts a lot and I'm not
mood for this conversation, Gabriel. What you choose to do with my

jewelry is my business and nobody else's.
He turned and headed for the stairs.
For some unfathomable reason Gabriel felt as if someone
I had placed a tremendous burden on his chest.
Sasha saw up the stairs and, for a second, was
tempted to follow her and asked how he could reconcile his love
for their children what she was done to him. At the end of the day, she will
She said she loved him and had begged him to love her. He remembered what
confused and angry that he had felt and the strength with which he had
rejected the words of Sasha. And yet his words had
moved in a manner unknown, though at first he had
refused to recognize. Now, that memory buried so long
He returned to his memory.
He felt tightness in his throat, and his heart was pounding,
causing pain. Sasha Was it? Why was a loving mother
their children? Did he feel jealous of that love?
One of the first things his grandfather had done when they took
Gabriel to live with was teach the diamond and ruby necklace you
He had given her mother when she returned home.
'Of this you sold your mother He had mocked suede say
bitterly: He should have married the man I chose for her
first. Now maybe have the grandson's name is Calbrini
He deserves and not a bastard like you.
After the death of his grandfather, Gabriel tore the portrait in his
mother appeared decorated with rubies that was held in such high
esteem, and he puts the necklace in the family vault Calbrini
He had in the bank. The time spent with Sasha should be confirmed
all I thought about women. He should have given the
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satisfaction of a debt charged. And yet, he had raised a
doubts in their life approach now could not ignore.
An idea emerged to mind. He left the house and got into the car.
Puerto Cervo knew well enough to imagine what
jeweler had visited Sasha.
The owner of the jewelry was reluctant at first to tell
how much money was given to Sasha, but ultimately went with Gabriel
yours. He handed a check for an amount greater by
"Inconvenience caused" and, once recovered the jewels of Sasha, she returned
the car.
Sasha had not lied when he said he had a headache. The
Gabriel Mercedes murmuring away gave him to understand that this
He had gone out and that, therefore, he had the house to herself. He sighed
relief. For a few hours he would not have to hide or worry about
hide his feelings.
He undressed and got into the shower, grateful to feel the water
fresh running down his skin taut and heated.
That morning on the beach ...
"Leave him. Not think about that now, "she told herself.
But I wanted to. I wanted to think about it and relive it, and
enjoy every second ...
He turned off the water from the shower and reached for a towel on.
She wrapped her before returning to the room. Concern which the
dominated meant nothing, tried to calm. It was a
mere physical appetite, nothing more ... That girl who had been needed
so desperate for love Gabriel was gone. The woman
that was in place did not need his love. He had two children, self
and a whole future ahead. He had no need to crawl to
last to claim a relationship which prejudiced. Gabriel had not
changed, that was obvious. He was not willing to do so. His life was
built on the abandonment of his mother, and without that base ... The
truth was that he despised. The powerful sexual passion that had
among them she was founded on hatred and bitterness, and that made
was destructive and harmful to both.
It took two painkillers, closed the shutters of the windows so no
let the sunlight, and got into bed. Tears welled
his eyes and rolled down her face. Not only it had caused pain
head, he acknowledged. But why he wept for Gabriel? I could not understand.
The house was empty and silent. Gabriel had the feeling that a
giant fist crushing her heart. He saw himself as a
movie scene, striding into the darkness of the cabin
yacht, calling furious Sasha, wondering why it was not
in bed.
But this time he could not have gone with Carlo. At the end of the day, your
cousin had died, and Sasha's car was parked outside. Pulse
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He is pounding and had formed a knot in the stomach. It would
rage he felt, he told himself.
He saw that no one was in the rooms of the ground floor and
He headed for the stairs.
The Mercedes engine noise under his window woke Sasha.
Gabriel had returned. He threw back the covers, relieved that the
headache had subsided. He heard the door hit Gabriel
his suite while called impatiently.
-I'm Coming. Wait a minute, 'she said, denying dressing
to hear that he had entered and walked to the door of the parlor. It would be in
your room at any moment. Panicked, he grabbed a towel
clean and wrapped in it, while urging him not to go, because
I was not dressed.
But it was too late: he had already opened the door to the room
and he was there in the middle of the room, watching her with a frown.
What's happening? he asked sharply.
Sasha winced. Gabriel's eyes searched the room
like a jealous lover hoping to find his rival.
His imagination was playing tricks on him, she thought.
Why are the shutters closed?
'I had a headache and decided to lie down for a while Sasha' I said.
-Sola?
Sasha stared at him. What the hell was happening?

Really it was believed to have hidden in the room lover?
'I said again head ached. Many people lie when
He has a headache, Gabriel.
The pursed his lips and Sasha suddenly recalled a scene from the past.
The lazy afternoon air, scented sensual smell of sex, invaded the
yacht cabin. He seemed to feel the warmth on your skin. Without
talk, Gabriel had transported back.
Maybe you follow Stepping out to bed in the evening to lie down
someone he said with vehemence-but I do.
Would it be sounding as if he wanted to? Would you be sending a
subliminal message of desire?
-what Did you want? she asked him. I have to get dressed; the kids are
about to arrive.
He left a large package on the table and looked at his watch.
No return for another two or three hours before returning said
to grab the package and deliver it.
'What ... what is this? he asked suspiciously.
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Why do not you open it and see it for yourself? said while
across the room toward the door. But instead of
pass it, she closed it and turned. Open it, Sasha.
He had only to remove the packaging and lift the lid to be

He realized what it was. His hands trembled as he removed the paper
silk and pressed her mouth to find under their jewelry kits. Opened
one of them, and dominated a wave of fury when he saw it was his ring
diamonds. Closing the case with violence, he looked at Gabriel.
-More You better check that they are all this' I said sharply.
What is this, Gabriel? she asked, ignoring her
order and managing not to sound angry.
They're your jewelry. What do you think it was?
Oh, no ... Sasha shook his head and, after placing the lid on the
box, he threw it far away. I sold them.
And I went back to the shop.
-No Had no right! Do you realize what you've done?
How much have you paid for them? More than what I got for sale, that
insurance.
His silence made him think he was right. His face flushed
anger.
How you dare you do this to me, Gabriel? I sold jewelry
to buy a house to live with my children, to not depend
yours. You had no right to ...
'Of course he was entitled -the cut Gabriel, too furious.
He did not realize how lucky she was? How how generous
He was being? Or was perhaps still dominant ?, suggested a voice
internal. "To what extent are determined to keep on debt
you? "He did ignore that voice. I have to think of the name
Calbrini. What do you think gives the impression that you sold the jewels
Carlo gave you?
Well, I do not think that lends itself to people mutter as both

buy you again, 'she said, scathingly. Everybody knows
Carlo died ruined. Did not have to be ashamed to sell the
jewelry, Gabriel. But now, thanks to you ...
Thank me what? he asked menacingly.
'You really have to tell you why you bought, Gabriel?
Maybe for me to feel indebted to you? So that you can
control me? To buy you're forcing me to pay again as
into debt by the additional amount you have paid the jeweler. Have
stolen my freedom, Gabriel. Just like your grandfather stole your mother.
But I'm not her, and nobody is going to force me to live in eternal debt
you.
Sasha had begun to tremble from head to toe as she realized
the real reasons for Gabriel. He grabbed a box and threw it.
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-Tmala! I do not want. And I do not want you. I will not allow
you force me to play the role you have chosen for me. Am
I, not your mother.
'At least my mother did not sleep with everyone or
She shared her favors with two men at once. You're right, you're not
it. You are one ...
That was the straw that broke the camel. Burning with anger inside.
He raised his hand and slapped him hard on the cheek. Gabriel released
box and immediately grabbed.
Sasha shuddered, dying of rage and shame. That was what
It occurred when Gabriel invaded his life. Brought back memories of the past
it aroused emotions that could not handle. Even
that moment, with the anger and shame swirling in his
Inside, still he wanted him. He had to put distance between them.
Gabriel, let go she begged as he struggled forgetting
He was wearing only a towel. It fell just in time
that Gabriel was going to raise by force to prevent their struggle.
Gabriel's hands found a naked body instead
than with a towel. His gaze made Sasha holding its breath. A
thick, dangerous, silence filled the room.
Sasha Gabriel begged again. But it was too late,
since he had begun to violently away the towel and
cardboard boxes and was carried to bed.
'You're right, said the thickly. You owe me
and I will cobrrmela. Here and now.
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Catu1o 10
Sasha looked at him helplessly. His initial anger had become
a jolt of desire. The hand that had lifted him away for what
He surrounded now by the neck in an attempt to lure him towards you.

That was the reason I had to keep their distance from him.
Because when he was around I could only think of how much I
She wanted.
That girl of seventeen who had made a world of
love and fantasy took Gabriel had not been aware of what
really I felt for him. For her sex was something that came with love,
a consequence of it. I was not aware of his ferocity and
intensity. I had no idea that was going to make you feel well. But he could not
blame the girl that was how I felt as a woman now. He closed his eyes
and his hands feverishly roamed Gabriel's chest and began to
unbutton as he kissed her, plunging at that location
where there reigned deep reason but the desire, where only hear the
voice of the senses, urging her to enjoy while there is time to
it.
He removed his shirt half and he finished it shed
completely. Their bodies moved in unison as he
He undid the belt. Sasha leaned forward and stroked the line
her collarbone with his finger and then with the mouth, breathing in the scent
He is emanating from his male body. He was completely lost in the
world of his own desire.
His hands rested in the waistband of his pants after
have belt unbuckled. Sasha lifted her hands and placed them
on his chest he is pushing him until he fell back on the bed. A
then he took control of the waistband and slowly, centimeter by
centimeter, kiss kiss began to unzip, rejoicing
in the sensual pleasure of discovering gradually the hair line
dark that covered her belly. His tongue began to circle

around your navel and ceremoniously observed where the
fine line began to thicken. He felt his erection under the tissue
Chinese. His pulse began to pound. He pulled impatience
pants and groaned with relief when he answered his longing, put
standing to finish undressing.
On the beach he had not had time to observe it well, but now
I could. Her nipples tightened while going through a desire
deep and warm, a desire not a child, but a woman. This feeling not
I had known at seventeen. It was devoid craving for sweets
fantasies, was the elemental passion of a real woman who needed a
real man. At seventeen he had sought a love
sentimental. At that time, on that bed, she was willing to
sacrificing love of purely physical satisfaction he was able to
give. She was a woman with a right to satisfy their own sexuality. The
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It happened on the beach that morning had opened an internal flow
accumulated over ten years of renunciation and sexual repression.
A voice inside reminded him that she could not afford such
excess. It was not just a woman, she was also a mother, and as such had
that putting their children to their own needs. Gabriel was his tutor,
and he could not provide weapons that then he could use against him
corrupting the innocent image that children had it.

As if he had guessed their thoughts and anticipated a
withdrawal, Gabriel grabbed her and said vehemently.
'It's too late to turn back, Sasha. I'll charge
you owe me. And I'll remember what you gave up on you
You were.
His voice, now sweet and sultry, made her tremble
delight. He was stroking the skin very gently with the tip of
only fingers, making your body burn with desire to receive
more. He was playing, he realized that Sasha, kissing and
away, covering his body intermittently with the tips of
fingers, causing a slow and sweet torment.
Desperate for more, tried to bring it to him, but he
it simply encircle the arms with hands and continued kissing her slowly
in the throat, then the shoulders, so fleetingly that she had to
hold your breath to avoid missing any sense.
'I want, right? he whispered.
He could not answer in words, but the convulsions of pleasure
that shook his body responded to it. With one of his hands,
He had been miraculously free, surrounded by the neck to tighten
more against him. The playfulness of his lips on her nipples was something
that he had always filled with erotic delight. But his memory had
accurately recorded the intensity of the feeling. Pangs
pleasure was so profound that he had no choice but to scream
joy.
Gabriel felt the moisture that told her she was ready. To the
feel his fingers over her sex sharpened his desire, and arched
Gabriel circling back while with the fingertip in

swollen source of female pleasure.
For a moment, that was enough. But his body remembered
a deeper pleasures soon require those circles
turned into caresses to cover all of their sex, not one but several
times until, in frustration, grabbed Gabriel, desperate
by feel I filled the emptiness inside.
-you Want me? he asked as he missed slightly
back to stand between her legs.
Sasha nodded and watched him breathlessly. The
Gabriel lay hands on her hips. He began to nod
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on her body, dropping increasingly exhaling breath
on her belly.
Sasha took a deep breath and his body tensed at the prospect of
privacy do not think he could resist. That was not what I expected, or
not what he wanted. It was too intimate, too personal;
bring down her defenses and leave her totally disarmed.
But it was too late to stop. Gabriel and language
I was gently caressing the swollen flesh, which opened as if
they were a sensual offering. A shiver of pleasure through her.
He tried hardly contain a small cry that while the
Gabriel language rhythmic precision moved inside. He felt

I was climaxing. It was too late to escape. She arched
back and clenched his fists as he felt Gabriel, changing
posture and leaning over her, parted her lips and entered
triumphantly inside.
For a few seconds, she lived intensely the feel of him
and finally in a powerful spasm of pleasure he gave the
fully they owned and poured hot liquid before falling
completely loose and helpless on the bed. For a while he was
unable to speak. All I could do was stay
lying there, listening to the gasps went softening Gabriel and
experiencing the last spasms of pleasure. Finally, Gabriel
He released her and stepped aside.
'I've thrown in my face all the things you gave Carlo, but the
We both know that it never received what I have just given.
His words seemed to come from far away, like the echo of a
stones into the water from a great height.
There are more important things than sex, Gabriel.
-that You say now taunted him, but ten minutes ago ...
'I can not change my past, but I control my future she countered. Me you will not use like a sex toy,
Gabriel. I have to think of my children. For more pleasure you give me in
bed, I do not deserve it jeopardize my relationship with them.
-that You say it now. But we both know that I can make
change your mind.
Sasha closed his eyes. Not wanting to see how he picked up his clothes or when
they
He is leaving. But he could not help doing.

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Chapter 11
He had done what he had proposed. It had forced
Sasha to recognize that no other man had made her feel like
it made her feel. So why I was not elated? Why triumph
It seemed so empty? Why did he feel the pain in your chest? Would the
need to see Sasha smile with the same tenderness with which
He smiles to your children? Why had he let his desire for her so
dominated to the point of making love, not once but twice, without
take any precautions? Why he woke up in the middle of the
night wanting her around, her longing for something more than a shout
pleasure? But more of what? Which was exactly what he wanted from her?
His heart knew. Your heart? He had no heart; his
mother had destroyed before they could experience
feelings. He had never been afraid to love anyone because you never had before
believed he was capable of loving. So, what was that feeling of
pain that invaded?
The truth was that Sasha was a woman for whom it was impossible not
feel love.
Gabriel stared at the computer screen with the look
lost, without understanding where it had come from that thought, but
unable to resist the truth it contained. The girl who once had
bitterly despised by the pain he had inflicted on his pride
had become a woman worthy of respect and having the
power to damage much more vulnerable than his pride.
Slowly, carefully, like a man lost a tunnel without light
guide him, Gabriel began to explore the unknown territory of that
new world of sensations which had just entered and shuddered
to meet a painful reality.
Was that love? Is that powerful combination of strength and weakness,
need to give and receive craving, desire and eagerness to protect
possess?
Thinking back, I had not felt all those things for her
many years ago, although he refused to acknowledge the existence
those feelings and meaning?
Love. He said the word several times, tasting, while
his mind a picture of Sasha was formed.
The voices of the twins outside the door interrupted their
thoughts.
'Ask Sam saying he heard you.
No, you -insista Nico.
A smile touched his lips to suspect that the purpose of the
Discussion of the children was simply to put your hand in the matter of
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Bicycle desired. I pushed his chair back, stood up and
He headed for the door. He opened it and invited them in.
The twins exchanged a knowing look and entered the
Room very attached to each other, oblivious to what funny
that resulted. They were still small enough to
find comfort in the physical presence of another, thought Gabriel as
He closed the door and returned to his chair. After its radical transformation was
He is discovering that not only had heart but it was vulnerable to
more emotional sentimentality.
Well, which of the two I will ask him? -Les invited.
Another eloquent exchange of glances, followed by an elbow from
Sam Nico ribs seemed to decide the issue.
Nico Gabriel approached.
Sam and I were wondering if you will not be our
real father.
That simple question left him astonished and ran out
words.
Nico continued in a friendly tone.
Before dying, dad and Sam confessed to me that he was not.
Yes, Nico, but also said he always wanted us as if it were
Sam interjected.
I know, but did not tell us who our real father.
Sam, ready now to take control of the conversation,
He looked disapprovingly.
Yeah, but that was because Mom wanted me to be that we
explain when we were old enough. We said no you
Mom we said we'd spoken. And it was very

proud that we were true Calbrini -inform Sam Gabriel
giving importance to Nico before delivering another nudge.
Obedient, Nico looked at Gabriel seriously.
Well, Sam and I thought that ... wondering if ...
Gabriel saw were darting glances at each other.
We'd love you to be our father Nico said of his run.
Yes, he is cool us a lot He agreed Sam.
Gabriel took just seconds to realize the scene
he had just lived would change his life forever. As if he had
suddenly discovered the secret of a complex combination lock,
in his mind a number of doors were opened to the truth.
Of course they were his. Could they not be? The amazing thing is not
It was that they were his children, but had realized it until
then.
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their children were approached and knelt beside her. His familiar features
They appeared slightly blurred and I had to blink.
'You really you want me to be your father? -Les asked.
For the first time in his life he was considering the needs
others took something more important than their own desires.
The children looked at each other and then at him, nodding in unison
while their faces lit up with a broad smile.

-Yes.
We knew it was you, right Nico? Sam said with an air of
sufficiency.
Yes, I know Nico 'said gravely, before placing a
hand on Gabriel's arm and leaning against him.
Carlo so I had named the guardian of the children, he realized
Gabriel suddenly with emotion atenazndole throat while
hugging tackles each of the children, their children. It was not
wonder he had felt so comfortable with them from the beginning,
so determined to protect them. So that was what he had tried Carlo
tell; only in the end he had changed his mind. Was it because he feared
Gabriel refused to recognize the truth?
I think for the moment we should keep this a secret.
At least until you talk to your mother said Gabriel -Les their
children.
But not for long, 'said Sam. Now they are our
father mother could say to him to give us our bikes
birthday.
Gabriel marveled at the cleverness of the children as they will
They spent a happy and confident smiles. The logic
typically male it was a reasonable deal, but not Gabriel
Sasha was far from clear that it was going to take as well.
After promising to secrecy and to ensure
Gabriel who were delighted that he was her father, children
They went looking for the teacher.
Miraculously, these children had security itself
same emotional balance and he could only envy. But no,

It was not a miracle; it was rather merit of his mother. Because it was
she who had offered them something more precious and more valuable than any
material possession. He had given them a father, a mother and Security
they were desired and loved, and had taught with love, but with
firmness, the limits of what could and could not do, without
restrict his freedom to be themselves. Sasha was the most valuable gift
that life had given them. And there would also be the most important gift
that life had given him, Gabriel?
Sasha. I had to talk to her.
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He found her in the kitchen, emptying the dishwasher. She looked at him to go
and quickly he looked away. He would have stayed there forever,
watching and marveling that that body had fathered
her children, she was responsible for the miracle of existence. By
Of course, not solely responsible.
They -children just come see me.
-Esperan To convince me to give them a bike for her
Birthday Sasha said.
They wanted to know if I'm your real father.
Water pitcher Sasha holding slipped from her hands and
He hit the tile splitting into pieces.
The expression on his face told Gabriel everything I needed to know.

-Carlo Was his father whispered as he bent down to pick up
crystals.
No, leave it. You'll cut he warned Gabriel, but it was
too late. A shard of glass was embedded in him
trembling hand, drawing blood.
Sasha watched, stunned, the bright red blood oozing from
small cut. He was slightly oblivious to what was happening,
as if a powerful force had transported to a place from
which could see herself in the distance.
But not true. He himself told the children, Sasha, so
no sense denying it.
This could not really be happening. He looked crystals
scattered on the ground.
I have to pick this up, 'he said. I ...
-And I will. Come and sit.
How had he reached the kitchen chair? He looked at Gabriel without
end to understand, as he swept the glass fragments
I use.
Now let me take a look at that hand.
Meekly let Gabriel take her to the pile and wash the
wound with cold tap water, before taking the medicine cabinet and closet
put ink on the court.
He took her back to the table and sat down.
-The Twins are my children; we both know.
I do not understand is why you did not tell me at the time.
The shock was abandoning slowly. There would
time later to worry about the effect that the confession of Carlo
he had in twins and to wonder what exactly did
he told them and why. At that time I needed was him
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Gabriel understand that children were his, Sasha, and that they had
nothing to do with it.
He breathed deeply.
'You really need to ask that question? I pleaded with me
amaras, Gabriel. For weeks I had nausea in the mornings and I
He imagines what he had to, but I lied and told you that something was me
gone bad. Even gave you a chance to say that you wanted to have children.
I did everything I could to give to understand the truth. Carlo guessed at
Although he barely knew me. He understood how I felt, and fear
I passed. You had already rejected me. What if also rejected them to
child in him? Or worse. When you told me you did not want
I was afraid children. Not for me but for them. I thought that maybe
you were trying to convince me to interrupt pregnancy Sasha closed
eyes and swallowed. I was afraid you were able to
convinced, I would have done what you told me. He made me Carlo
It would be easy to make the right decision. If children are here today is
thanks to him, and no thanks to you or me. It was Carlo who behaved like
a father, Gabriel. Because he was the one who gave them love and protection
a parent.
Gabriel felt his veins ran repentance, shame
and especially pain ...
You should have told me.
Maybe you're right, 'she said, equably. I'll never know what
Carlo did to deserve. I will never stop being grateful for everything
he gave me. Sometimes I wonder if it would send the destination, not for me,
but the twins. The truth is that no matter who intended to rescue,
since their generosity and compassion saved us three. Without it, I
he had been persuaded by you to abort or would have finished on the street,
where my children had grown up in worse circumstances than mine.
They say that these things are handed down from generation to generation. The
Children who have been become parents who make their children suffer.
I was lucky that I got a chance to change that pattern.
Do not be melodramatic said Gabriel. You're right: I said no
She wanted children. But if I'd known you were already pregnant ...
That's what you say now, Gabriel, but the truth is that none of
the two were ready to be parents. I was merely a
begging girl needed the love of a man who could not
I give it. Having children was my call to maturity. Thanks to Carlo
I could have the best of aid. I wanted my children, but had
to learn to love myself. I had to learn to accept my
past and leave it where it was, instead of bringing it to the present. Carlo
I was very proud of the children. True Calbrini always said.
The conversation was not about the paths that Gabriel expected.
Sasha seemed determined to reject their attempts to forge a bond between
them through their children. The revelation that had so shocked
It seemed to have no effect on it.

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He did not see that he was a new man? What acknowledged errors
I had made in the past and was willing to make amends?
They are my children 'I said firmly.
No, Gabriel. Your children would be so hurt by your childhood as
you are. An adult can not find salvation in a child. You have
to give and not receive them.
I -Comet many mistakes, I admit. But it is not too late
to ...
What for? Sasha asked.
"It is not too late for us," he meant, but for the
instead he said:
I know you, Sasha.
She stopped him immediately.
No, you do not know me, Gabriel. You never did. According to you, I am a
cheap whore to you picked up on the street, a piece of meat that gives you
pleasure. You thought I was unfaithful with Carlo. You thought ...
There were mistakes, Gabriel knew, but the fault was not only
yours. His accusations he was hurt and reacted to the
defensive.
'What are you shocked? he asked. The night I met you I

you said ...
Sasha looked at him wearily. What did it matter if he told these
heights?
'The night you met me, I was still a virgin. That
It shows how little you know me, Gabriel.
He pushed back his chair and stood hesitantly.
That can not be true Gabriel protested. And what about that
film director? He gave me to understand that ...
Sasha smiled bitterly.
Yes, the film director there. He made a proposal to one of the
girls I was on vacation. I was very young and very foolish.
Want you to think I was attractive and desirable ... It was too
naive to realize that you would think it was a
any.
I do not understand anything. You say you were a virgin but then ... why
demons you slept with me? You should have known that ...
-What? What it was to be a one-night thing? Sasha shook
head. Gabriel, was seventeen. She'd been living in houses
host. She was hungry for love. I imagine that for me was the
solution to all my problems. My prince and we would rescue me
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happily ever after. That's all I craved: to be loved.

Fall in love.
He noticed a hint of mockery in his voice, as if he thought ridiculous have
done so. It hurt her.
-The Other girls were older than me. The only reason I
had included in their vacation plans was that worked
together. I stood in their plans and put them nervous, so I
I spent most of my time alone. The day we arrived in St. Tropez you
I saw pass near the bar where he was having coffee. You ajustabas
perfectly prototype hero in his head. In question
seconds I was convinced that it was love at first sight and
you were the only man I could love.
He shrugged before continuing.
So of need was. I began to wander around the port,
waiting to see you. And I saw you. You were leaving the yacht. I thought you
formabas
part of the crew. I never would have occurred to you were the
owner. I never cared your money, Gabriel, believe it or not. Me
I was shocked when I realized how rich you were, but by then it was
too late. He was madly in love. So, that pleasure
I felt that first time compensated for the pain.
Gabriel closed his eyes. He remembered the first time and pleasure
he experienced when he being inside her, felt his muscles so
They clung tightly. At that moment he thought he must have
much experience. ... It should have known that he had perhaps
It is known in the background but had chosen not to pay attention to their
suspicion.
He felt shame and an acute sense of loss gripped him

throat.
'Of course, I was convinced that the feeling was mutual Sasha went smoothly. Although you did everything possible
prove me wrong But I do know? He never wanted me
no; I did not know what was true love. How typical, right? fetch
I love where there was going to ever find. I decided to do everything
best to be worthy of your love. It is a pattern very
common. The more rejection shows the other person, the more you want it
I loved you.
I did not know that ...
How would you know? We never talked about our relationship was
purely sexual. But I kept making me illusions. When I
talked about your mother and your grandfather never occurred to me that
that I had to somehow affect our relationship. Simply
I thought it was wonderful that the two had had a childhood
unfortunate, because that would unite us. I thought I had the opportunity
to give you the love that you had never received. I agreed with you
when you said your mother was cruel and selfish. At that time no
I thought he had perhaps felt alone and frightened, who had
She found herself in a relationship that did not work, and what
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Maybe she'd been persuaded by his father to find out when and
It was too late, that the price to pay to flee a
unwanted marriage was the loss of his own son.
Sasha saw Gabriel frowned and his eyes were bleak.
I'm not saying that's what happened, Gabriel. I am saying
simply that there may be another explanation other than what you got to
you.
Gabriel did not look convinced.
Gabriel Look, I'm not trying to reinvent the story of your
family, nor defend your mother, but when you left you ages
too young to understand what reasons led her to do so. Only
You know what you told others.
Sasha shrugged before continuing.
We can blame our parents we feel pain
when we were kids, and we can also analyze our childhood
Parents and discover that they also suffered. But where it ends
this, Gabriel? How many generations have to go back to
find the culprit? I had to forget my past and reinvent
the person Twins needed a mother. It was the moment
most decisive of my life.
That was not entirely true. But Sasha did not want to confess that even
now he felt a pain in my heart that no one had already stripped.
'So you reinventaste yourself and your life completely changed
convincing you that your childhood was not as bad as
remembered ... Unfortunately, I have not much imagination.
I love for Gabriel, who had so often denied feel, filled
Sasha heart. She was tempted to approach him and hug him, of
try to heal their wounds. He imagined a child: alone, scared and unloved.
A child suffering. Tears came to his eyes. He would have liked
be able to return to the past of Gabriel to love. But deep
I knew that a lot of love to offer you, your bitterness still be there. AND
I also knew I could not let that bitterness affect life
of their children.
Are not you more to say? Gabriel said grimly. Everything
you have said is very beautiful, Sasha, but you can not expect me
think you can change the situation. Forget the past. What we have
to do now is talk about the present, and our children.
Sasha looked away from him.
What's the matter? She asked him. Let me guess. You would
I preferred never know truth, to continue believing that
Carlo was the father of your children, right?
Yes Sasha admitted quietly.
Thank you for showing such confidence in me.
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I'm thinking of the boys.
'And what you think is that I'm not good enough to be
his father? Gabriel asked.
Sasha ducked. He was proving very difficult and painful.
He recalled how he felt when he found out she was pregnant. The
joy that invaded the thought that he would have a son Gabriel. Are
He had felt the luckiest woman in the world. It had been a
accident. Sasha was too innocent so as to sabotage
Gabriel deliberately precautions. The fact stay
pregnant despite the care he put it made him feel he was a
especially predestined pregnancy. Every morning when he felt nausea
Gabriel told hoped he knew what was wrong. He even had
imagined the scene and the words of love that he pronounced. By
Of course, I would ask her to marry him and live together forever
with her adorable son.
But things had not happened. Now he realized that
an inner instinct had warned him what would happen. Why otherwise
Gabriel had lied about morning sickness, saying that
something had gone bad? He had tried to convince himself that wanted
Gabriel knew it, but something inside her made her
secrecy.
In the second month of pregnancy she became impatient at the lack
Gabriel insight, so she began to drop hints. It was
when Gabriel told her that there were too many pairs
World conceiving unwanted children. He supported his opinion with
detailed descriptions of his own childhood.
Sasha let out a deep sigh as she reminisced.
I think you are not sufficiently prepared to be a father
I want for them. I do not want to suffer the consequences of your childhood,
Gabriel he said quietly.
Physically it hurts you see the despair in his eyes and the way
He is trying to hide it by all means.
You think that hurt them ... physical? he snapped.

'No,' he said sincerely. I lived with you long enough
to know that they would not do that kind of damage. But there are other ways
cause suffering to the people we love.
So you admit that I love?
Sasha smiled wistfully. From the moment they met,
between Gabriel and the children he had formed a bond that had male
Sasha brought in guilt. Gabriel had
He behaved like a real father during those first weeks
they had spent together, and that he did not know that the twins were his.
He had an instinct to decide what was good for them and what
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no, and he treated as an individual rather than referring to them under the
generic name of "twins". But most significant of all was
which from the outset had been able to distinguish, which
until then it was a unique ability to Sasha.
carlo It certainly never came to know who was who.
Yes, I admit. But love can hurt sometimes, Gabriel. To
Naturally we want to give children the best of both sentimental as
materially. But that is not always good.
You mean you think I would give them too much love and things
materials that would give them everything that I never had?

Tell me honestly that you have not already chosen the best bikes
to give them'm challenged. The elusive gaze gave Gabriel
understand that he was right.
Not that I do not think I do not want them, Gabriel, or hesitate for
when you want the best for them. It's just that I have
I learned that sometimes the best you can do for them is to tell them
no.
So you do not want to be part of their lives because you think
I'm going to spoil ...
-And are part of their lives. You're his father and guardian.
Sasha-he took her hand before Sasha could stop him.
I know what you mean, and yes, I recognize that to be a good father will
have to learn many things. But what about the other?
What is that? Sasha asked getting stiff. But he knew
spare what he meant. It was time to live your worst
nightmare ... and his most desired dream.
Our history has been full of pain and bitterness, I know. But
we have to our children. Now I realize I let out what
best thing that ever happened in my life because I was not able to appreciate it.
We have shown that it is not that we are sexually compatible;
rather explosives.
He paused, and passion that burned in his eyes made her heart
Sasha beat strongly.
-the Best gift a parent can give a child is security
a stable home. And that's what I love to give our children.
It had taken a long time to recognize that Sasha loved but
Now we finally had not wanted to miss a minute.

I wanted to make a clean slate. Sasha and wanted show
children how much they meant to him.
Are you saying you want to live the four together as
a family? she asked cautiously.
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Yes, Sasha, I want us to live together as a family. And I want
you and I live as husband and wife. I want to marry you,
Sasha. I want our children to grow up having us as parents.
For a few precious seconds Sasha is allowed to dream with
impossible. But only for a few seconds. Because I knew what
He would be your answer.
'No,' said Gabriel sadly.
No? Why?
It would not work, Gabriel. You're right when you say that
well we function sexually. And it is clear that we both want to
children, but that does not mean that we love each other. Both
we know that is not so.
Those were the words that were more hard to say at all
her life. Especially since they were lies. As much as he had tried
otherwise convince all those years, I knew what
he made her feel transcended the purely sexual. But it was also
aware that for the sake of the children could not afford to
I love it.
In an ideal world, that would be the moment when she would throw
on his chest he is shouting for joy. But the reality was not. The
reality was harsh and unforgiving.
I do not agree he heard Gabriel said softly. It may
you no longer want me, Sasha I love you Yes I love you.
If that were true ... The emotion felt Sasha these words
after so long he was about to clear you all doubts. But
I could not allow that.
'That what you say now, Gabriel, but how do you want me to believe?
A few days ago I thought I was a bad mother she was going to bed
bed you looking for a man to keep it, remember?
Gabriel could not deny.
Yes, I said all those things. And at first I was convinced that
they were true. But it did not take long to realize that I was
wrong, but it took me to admit it. I had to believe them, Sasha,
because my pride would not let me admit how I felt the day I
abandoned. He had sworn never to fall in love and could not
recognize that what he had done. Also, if you had wanted to seduce a
Rich Man, you could have seduced me.
He smiled to show he was able to laugh at himself.
Maybe a part of me wanted you to.
Sasha remained silent.
Why do not you tell me the reasons that led you to send
Internal children?
Sasha seemed to perceive a hint of pain in his voice.

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I thought it would not be worth, you'd not believe. His
feeling that you were determined to think the worst of me.
And you're right: it was. Hear that the professor had seemed a
I sat right decision as a kick in the stomach. But now
I realize that deep down I have always wanted.
It's very easy to say that now, Gabriel-what stopped her. But I
you seem to have realized that you loved me only after
discovered that children were yours.
Gabriel acknowledged that Sasha had every right in the world
think that, although it was not true. It was true that he was delighted
know who was the father of twins. And he could not deny that, as
man had felt special knowing that was his first
lover. But that does not love her anymore. How could he explain the slow,
painful process that had lived to realize their true
feelings, when he still did not understand them at all? it was
in uncharted territory, and no navigating a sea captain
unknown unless you are desperate. And that was exactly how
he felt.
'I loved you before ... he began.
Sasha 'I' I can not believe it, expressionless said.
"But I want to believe" thought inside. "More than anything
world. " More than the emotional safety of the twins? If the answer
I was so, what kind of mother was she? A mother like Gabriel?
If she surrendered to Gabriel, and then he changed his mind and discovered that
After the not love her, how long it would accuse her of being in
a bad mother?
I'm willing to do anything to prove continued
Gabriel.
-not Worth it.
For me yes. You loved me once, and I think ...
That was not love; It was the fantasy of a teenager Sasha lied.
'So you do not love me anymore. And yet you slept with me.
'Sometimes these things happen Sasha' I said evenly.
-A Often?
He kept shaking his hand in hers Sasha wondered if
I would not have felt the tremor that had treacherous journey.
-what Do you mean? she asked.
I mean how many times you have sex with men
You not loved since I left.
Look, Gabriel, this is not going to lead anywhere. I recognize
that as a parent of twins, you have a role to play,
but ...
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'There was no one else, right? he said softly,

refusing to change the subject. He was so keen to take her in
his arms and kiss her ... Something inside him told him that there had been
another man during the years they'd been apart.
He was married; She had two small children and a sick husband. Not
have much free time to take a lover 'said Sasha.
'So there has not been anyone else ...
He did not have to sound so happy, angry thought Sasha.
So what? That does not mean I have spent ten years sighing
for you.
'I have not said that, but you will agree with me that that
shows that there may be something between us, right?
The conversation he was getting out of hand. Few more minutes
and he would be lost in the sea of replica why he was throwing him.
Okay, let me a little trouble, for old times. Not that
It means nothing.
I know you're lying Gabriel laughed. And it was not a "mix-up".
You know perfectly well that it was an act of love, intimate and passionate.
Sasha had reached the limit. His defenses were about to
collapse.
No matter what you say or what you feel. Do not you understand? No
about us, Gabriel, but the boys. What if I say yes and
then, within a month, a year, ten years, you get bored of playing
happy family? So what? I'm not by opposing to become part
of life: you are his father and his tutor and have total freedom to weave a
relationship with them. But do not use your bed as a shortcut. I will not do
anything
you can end up making them victims of a broken home.

It could change your mind cause he warned Gabriel
softly. It could take you in my arms here and now and make ...
-Hacerme What? Do what you want? Yes, you could. But that's not me
would change his mind.
Very well he said Gabriel releasing her hands and standing.
I understand.
He had started receding and Sasha had to summon all
his willpower to not call and confess how she felt in
reality.
But one thing I warn you, Sasha. I have no intention of
surrender. I intend to do everything it takes to convince you
children, you and I have a future as a family, and that you and I have
future as a couple.
'I can not prevent what you wish Sasha said. But what I
want is to provide the best for children. You've hinted that you wanted
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take them out of school. I want them to stay. They are happy, and are
learning a lot.
What was testing ?, Gabriel asked. Where
so, Sasha was going to find that very seriously.
'You're his mother' I said firmly. I trust your opinion in the
Regarding what is best for them. What I suggest is that

incorporate aspects of Italian descent to their lives.
Is this the Gabriel had agreed to keep children in school?
But ... what about the teacher? she reminded him. I thought ...
His role was initially to assess the needs of
children in their education. I'm sure when you
say that children will follow in their school will be displayed agreed.
In fact I am convinced that it will seem like a very good idea.
'And you let stay there just because the teacher will appear
right? Sasha asked, thinking that if Gabriel had changed
opinion it was not due to the end of the day.
Gabriel shook his head immediately.
I do not need the teacher to realize that they are happy in their
school and that they are learning a lot. And, believe it or not, no
I need no intermediary to confirm me that they are accommodated and
manicured.
No I meant. You get along well with them, and Gabriel
understand better than I ever did-and to offset Carlo
that moment of weakness, he added: But when I return to school
I'll go with them. I'll find work and I think finding a home
which is near the school and my work. So I sold the jewelry.
Sounds good, 'said Gabriel cordially.
Why he not opposed, nor frowning, or begged to stay
with the? And why she was so disappointed to see that he did nothing
of the above?
When did we leave?
"Do we?". If Sasha was feeling at that moment not
It was relief, he seemed very much.

Of course. What I said before it was very serious, Sasha. Of
Henceforth, children and where you go, I will go too. Not me
Whatever it takes or what you need to do to it. I'm going to
prove that we have a future together.
That's impossible.
Nothing is impossible.
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Chapter 12
Sasha smiled when looking at the beautiful Christmas tree decorated the
living room of his small apartment for rent. It was Christmas Eve,
children had already gone to bed and she intended to do
same as placed socks full of gifts to the feet of his
beds. It was after ten o'clock, and they were going to spend Christmas Day with
Gabriel. He had insisted, because his house was much bigger than
the apartment. After Christmas he went to take the kids to ski,
as a Christmas gift. He had tried to convince Sasha it was
with them, but she had refused.
True to his word, since the boys returned to school
September, Gabriel had arranged a determined attack which had as
so show him that had no future as a family.
It began with an attitude that was that every time
organized something, the children insisted that Gabriel to join them. The
journeys to and from school they did in public transport, as
Sasha would have wished, but in the comfortable Bentley Gabriel.
When she objected, he looked up innocently and
He recalled that as he had refused his offer to buy a car for
to take them to school, and since he now lived in London, and just
a few blocks from the school, it was logical that he take the children and
then leave it at work. Sasha did not insist.
The power of money was something that had to be taken into account: while
that God had cost her and help find a apartment
rent, he had not had the slightest problem in buying
London's elegant four-storey house in which he lived. When she
He suggested that perhaps it was too big for him, Gabriel said:
"Nonsense, has the ideal size for us."
During that time Gabriel had courted her and tried and had
become the hero of children. And at no time had
beyond the limits trying to get her into bed ...
Did she felt a little disappointed? The truth was that something
yes he was frustrated, I had to admit. His heart and body
Gabriel seemed constantly pine for. But worth
and thus satisfy their desire to risk the happiness of children?
Gabriel was determined to demolish every argument she
wielded against the possibility of being all together. When they arrived
summer vacation he had wanted to take them to the Caribbean, where
He docked his yacht, but she had rejected his proposal. In
Instead of arguing, Gabriel had suggested good ways to pass
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'I -Llvatelos you only had she said when she heard that one
the destinations chosen by the children was the wax museum, Madame
Tussauds.
Mom, is that without you is not the same He had complained Nico.
It's true, it's not Gabriel There was gently nodded.
And, of course, he had run going. And, somehow, Gabriel
it had managed to be at his side as they went from room to room,
tantalizingly close but out of reach.
Gabriel did not protest when she refused to receive an allocation
monthly. Nor he tried to change his mind. Sasha did not win
a lot of money, but at least he had work. But the truth was that
some nights ended so exhausted that she could hardly move. By
Luckily, they lived near Hyde Park enough to
Gabriel will take them for a walk to give a respite during the weekend
week.
Since they had left Sardinia, Gabriel had surprised
pleasantly by the effort he was making to show
I had finally accepted and made peace with his past. She
He loved far more than I had ever thought possible. But still no
to accept his marriage proposal. It would have been easy to feel sorry
herself and leave its future in the hands of Gabriel for the rest of their
days. But he could not. Not then.

He was about to bring socks to the small room
They shared tightly, so different from the huge rooms
He reported that they enjoyed the home of Gabriel when hit his
mobile phone.
I announced I am Gabriel unnecessarily. I'm out here.
Let me in. I did not want to knock on the door to avoid waking the
children.
Hesitantly, Sasha went to open the door. Gabriel entered, invading
small hall the smell of wet and cold streets. He saw he held in
his hands a rectangular, thin but large box, wrapped in paper
Gift.
I've brought a Christmas gift she said pointing to the box.
You could have waited until morning.
Sasha gave him a suspicious look and wondered if he was
or were deliberately provoking his imagination. He decided that
it was better not try to find out.
You want a hot drink? she asked.
Gabriel shook his head as he gave the gift.
Thank started to say it.
Why do not you open it now?
It looked like a calendar, thought, and sank to the heart.
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I think so, I will accept that hot drink he told her. But
I prepare.
They spoke in that breathy tone that all parents know.
'You have no idea of the desire I have to kiss you now and
to take home with me, 'he said gravely. To all of you.
Sasha, I long to have you with me and protect you ...
Sasha noticed the excitement in his voice and in his eyes. He felt something
within it began to crumble. They welled in the eyes of some
tears that he tried to hide. Now would be the time to give up, he thought.
But he could not. Gabriel went to the kitchen.
Gabriel.
He stopped and turned to face her. That was not the way it was
He planned to tell her, but I had to. He breathed deeply.
I know it's not what you want to hear, but I can not marry you.
Gabriel shook his head.
Open your gift. And we'll talk tomorrow.
He disappeared into the kitchen while she watched gift
staring. It made no sense; He should tell.
He returned with two cups in hand.
'I have prepared a tea instead of coffee, is that okay?
Yes, Gabriel. But there's something I want to tell you.
'You have to tell me anything. I know.
Gabriel ...
You're pregnant. You conceive the day we love
Sardinia, and you've been worried sick since I went to
doctor.
Sasha sat.
'you Have know? But how? I have not ...
He approached her.
I love you. I know you. This time I recognized the signs. Have
avocados been taking every meal. Caribbean I thought
you did it because you liked, but this time I realized the true
right. You are very pale in the morning; Children have commented that
You have nausea, wearing loose clothing, and also ...
He looked at her and then looked away.
Besides, what?
Well, not that I planned to get you pregnant, but I have to
confess I thought that if you were would be easier you agreed to
marry me. But I did not say anything ...
Sasha took a deep breath.
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You sound very convinced that it is yours.
Gabriel looked.
'Of course it's mine said softly while approaching
to himself before she could resist. With one hand behind her
head and the other lightly pressing the concealed his belly bulge,
He said softly:
How could I not be mine? I love you, and you're the most loyal, faithful,
honest and trustworthy I know. If there had been someone else

you had told me and also you had not slept with me. I have
It is taken a long time to realize but I assure you now know.
I love repeated. We have two wonderful children, and now, between the
two have created a new life.
Sasha lifted his head to look at him. A mistake, as it made
he immediately bend to kiss his slow and intense.
It was impossible not to kiss him back. Impossible to ignore the jolt
he felt in the heart and anxiety that invaded the body.
Why do not you want to tell me? His question brought her back to life
real.
Fear-he had admitted. I knew if I would insist on enterabas
we were married ...
'And you do not want to do this?
'What I do not want you to ever think we got married
It forced by circumstances' I replied, vehemently. Do not
You can imagine the times I've wished not having content,
I told you I loved you when you asked in Sardinia, having
accepted your offer of marriage then, before finding out that
I was pregnant. That way you could never reproach me ...
Shut up now. I will never cast anything on face, Sasha. I have
Lesson learned. And I've made peace with my past. Open it by
Please.
Such was the earthquake that invaded it took a long time to remove the
ribbon and paper. When he did, he found ...
Sasha stared at the gift.
How ...? He began, as tears rolled down
his face.
What he had in his hands was not a simple picture; It was his future,
theirs, drawn by an artist's hand: two children, a man,
woman in the arms of this, a baby.
I tried to imagine how you felt while waiting for me
number them about your pregnancy. I thought that this way I could tell you
I feel for you and for all of us. I was about to tell the painter
to paint baby clothes in pink, but then I thought it was
tempt fate added apologetically.
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Oh, Gabriel.
Unable to contain himself, he threw himself into his arms. When he kissed her,
Sasha
he felt Gabriel's body trembled slightly, as if he could not
hide the emotion that came over him. He kissed her passionately, as if
I wanted to show the world that she was his. And then, slowly and
tenderly, she kissed him. When he pulled away, Sasha tensed,
to then relax and smile to see who was the last to be
He realized that the twins had just entered the living room.
-os -the He accused you were kissing Sam, very seriously.
Yes -confirm Nico.
The twins looked at each other.
'You say that you are going to get married and we'll go live
Dad's house?
'There was need to come get us. Only live three
streets here; We could have protested Sasha as he walked
children and gowns became Gabriel taught him gifts
They had been found in his socks.
If you really have worried me out of bed so
Early on Christmas Day, you would not have allowed me to spend the night
Gabriel whispered mocking you. Do you realize that I
woke up at four in the morning to send me home?
'And you, you realize that the children woke up at five? Gabriel laughed while she accompanied them to the car.
Did you put the turkey in the oven, as you said? he asked
Sasha.
Of course. And so I assured him on Gabriel
guindoles a look at the twins as he started.
The house that Gabriel had purchased was of that cut the
breathing to anyone, she recognized Sasha, standing in front of the fireplace
He dominated the spacious lounge. At the request of Gabriel, children and she had
Decorated tree and home decorations although seemed a bit
out of place in this room so elegant, made eyes
Sasha fill with tears of emotion.
They had agreed that children open their gifts at home
Gabriel. While the twins screamed in excitement to reveal the contents
Gifts that much work had cost wrapping, Sasha and Gabriel
They exchanged glances.
With any luck, tonight will be so tired that
They want to go to bed early.

Sasha laughed.
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-do Not flatter yourself. If kids do not deplete in the park
premiering their new bikes, our daughter certainly end up with me.
I think it's time for you to take a look at the suggested turkey
Gabriel faced want to say something in private.
Sasha got up, looked at the children and went to the kitchen, where the
Gabriel continued.
-When I imagined myself asking in marriage,
scenario was not a kitchen, of course, 'he said as he closed the
door behind him and leaned against it shaking Sasha among its
arms.
I love you so much ... I hope you know that. These last months have
It has been hellish. Sasha marry me, and make me the happiest man
of the world.
Yes she said. Yes Yes Yes ...
He tilted his head to kiss her and suddenly stopped looking
accusingly.
-Antes You say "our daughter"! Sasha laughed.
Well, when I became ultrasound told me they thought it was
girl She added .And luckily.
-why?
She smiled.
I see you have not set well in the box-at seeing the frown
Gabriel smiled even more. The baby booties are tied with
pink ribbon!
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Epilogue
Nine months later
They had decided to celebrate the baptism, not the church in London
who they married just after Christmas, but in Sardinia. The words
that the priest spoke English and Italian were simple
but very well chosen. They were back in the house recently
converted, where Celestine, five months, monopolized the attention of
the guests, who leaned over her as the twins
protectively guarded.
He's biting his sleeve again Nico warned. I think that
he is hungry.
No, not hungry, it is that you are getting the teeth-what
Sam corrected. He wants to take arms. He does not like to be
He is lying there doing nothing. Also, it's my turn.
No, it's mine.
No, it's my turn Gabriel announced firmly, pulling the girl
the dunite and holding her against his chest with one arm while
surrounding children with her free.
Seeing them, Sasha could not resist the temptation to take the camera
photos.
-os Going to have completely dominated the three -Les warned
while he is looking lovingly at her daughter and slipped his hand under the
sleeve shirt Gabriel.
If that's a hint for tonight, the answer is "yes" he murmured softly. Too bad we have a house full ...
Always we have the beach reminded him mocking approaching him
for his kiss.
Life could not give more than they already had, thought Gabriel: Sasha,
the twins and now the girl.
I think when Carlo asked me to be the guardian of the children, what
I wanted was to be together he told Sasha quietly.
You're right, 'said she. He knew how much I loved you and
Maybe he realized that you loved me too, although not yet
you know.
Now I do know he said he alternately watching his daughter,
the twins and Sasha.
He bent to kiss her.
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Now and forever, Sasha.

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Sasha turned to look at her twin sons, frolicking in the

morning, had ceased to be the wife of a rich man

he accepted the marriage proposal by Carlo even though he was much

heritage. Carlo promised himself keep forever.

path he had chosen, or anyone come between him and his

Never let any woman refused as he had done his

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his brain. He had trembled with emotion as he irrepressible

I would contaminate with their thoughts. He felt the urgent

find another older man wanted to keep it, he would have to

real economic situation, and try to explain what he had felt

Does your money you lent Carlo?

the female has no other motivation than self-interest.

Regarding Sasha ...

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No sense you the present. After all, you will not

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mortifying two innocent children; not after what he had

He knew nothing about pleasure and a lot of need.

intention to turn it into a private home. Children live here

Sardinia's history was full of tales of revenge and

determination had studied a career and an MBA

He educated partly in England, so it was not surprising that it

Can we go fishing this afternoon? I ask Nico eager.

age, forgot to do so.

contemptuously before turning to go to meet their

while he is laughing provocatively. They were the steps of a sewing workshop

-why? Have you As soon found another man to replace

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Gabriel would keep it? Who knew what was in the

fact have not received as a child did not have to care

dark, incredibly handsome, he had everything to go crazy to the

Sasha persuaded him to join her in the conquest of fame as

more than their own fantasies.

They became one person.

heated sand beach. Occasionally Sasha or one of the kids

independent. Apparently. But the reality was that was so good

intensity he could almost feel physically. But at what it would take

usually to prevent their thoughts revolved around Sasha,

actually "men" but he played along and asked

That was when he kissed her. He did driven by a force

He had to struggle to overcome its past before joining

If you're thinking about take the children ...

Sasha gave him a blistering look.

I know, and had thought so, but I think the children of

immaculately dressed in designer clothes shopping in the

his private office.

I have made the calculation without them, 'he said softly.

have taken this matter it up with me, but I assure you in

forced to admit the possibility that perhaps he had seen things

memories that had never allowed evoke: pictures of when I was

There was no escape. Sasha had feared for so long that

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moisture of tears running down his face. He had been dreaming

keeping his distance.

just as a man he was, he was reluctant to recognize their

Carlo habit of getting coffee in the morning, and

Before he could utter another word he had dropped and

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maturity, Sasha said. Within seconds, he had placed his

I knew I could not lie there tormenting a minute

He stared and suddenly turned and ran.

it. I had triggered something that neither could