“Unless?”
Grace stepped forward until their bodies were touching from chest to thighs. She could feel the effect her closeness was having on Matteo as his cock instantly became hot and hard. “Unless I’m living in the same place as you, and so making a second set of bodyguards superfluous.”
Matteo moistened his lips before speaking. “Will you be living in the same place as me?”
She tilted her head teasingly. “Is that a proposal?”
“That depends on whether or not you would say yes if it was.”
Grace chuckled at the same time as she could hardly believe she found anything amusing about this situation. Except it was. She had spent five years running and hiding from her powerful Mafia uncle, only to then fall in love with a man who held the same amount of Mafia power in London. The irony of that wasn’t lost on her.
The moment she heard Matteo tell Leonardo Brunelli he wouldn’t marry his daughter because he was in love with Grace, she had known her own fate was sealed. Irrevocably.
This wasn’t an arranged relationship as her parents’ marriage had been, as Matteo’s marriage to Natalia would have been. The love she and Matteo felt for each other was so powerful, Matteo had been ready to sacrifice being head of his Mafia empire for a second time rather than be with any woman who wasn’t Grace.
He needed to know she was equally as willing to commit herself to their love.
She could feel the rapid beat of Matteo’s heart as she placed her palms against his chest. “I love you, Matteo Zalotti, and that has absolutely nothing to do with this ridiculous agreement you had with my uncle.”
“Hell, no!” He scowled.
She nodded. “Matteo, will you marry me?”
His eyes widened. “Whoa, I wasn’t expecting that!”
“Too much?”
“Absolutely not!” His arms tightened about her waist as he buried his face against her throat. “You do know your cat hates me?”
“He’ll grow to love you.”
“Like you do?”
“No one could love you as much as I do,” she instantly assured.
He released a shuddering breath. “God, I love you, Grace Morrissey—”
“Brunelli, soon to be Zalotti,” she corrected. “That’s if you ever reply to my proposal,” she teased.
He chuckled huskily. “As long as you realize that for years, I’ll be telling our children, and then our grandchildren, that their mother and grandmother was the one who proposed to me?”
She gave a snort of laughter. “Is that a yes?”
“God, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes!” Matteo gave a triumphant laugh as he picked her up in his arms and swung her round until they were both dizzy and fell together in a sprawling heap on the couch.
After which there was no more conversation for several hours, only murmurs of love and pleasure and forever.
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Carole Mortimer is a USA Today Bestselling Author and recipient of the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award 2015, RT Career Achievement Award 2017, RT Pioneer for Romance Award 2014. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 for her ‘outstanding service to literature’. Carole has written over 255 contemporary, Regency and paranormal romance novels.
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Other books by Carole Mortimer
Dance with the Devil
MATTEO (Dance with the Devil 1)
LEON (Dance with the Devil 2)
KILLIAN (Dance with the Devil 3)
More to come in this series
Steele Protectors Series:
LOGAN (Steele Protectors 1)
ATTICUS (Steele Protectors 2)
BRYCE (Steele Protectors 3)
ROURKE (Steele Protectors 4)
HAYDN (Steele Protectors 5) Author’s 250th Book
LUCAN (Steele Protectors 6)
Series now complete
Regency Club Venus:
Bastian’s Surrender (Regency Club Venus 1)
Gabriel’s Torment (Regency Club Venus 2)
Benedict’s Challenge (Regency Club Venus 3)
Julius’s Passion (Regency Club Venus 4)
Regency Men in Love:
Hidden Lover (Regency Men in Love 1)
Hidden Desire (Regency Men in Love 2)
More books to come in this series
Regency Lovers Series:
INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1)
OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2)
CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3)
FORBIDDEN (Regency Lovers 4)
SURRENDER (Regency Lovers 5)
SCANDAL (Regency Lovers 6)
This series is now complete
Regency Sinners Series:
Wicked Torment (Regency Sinners 1)
Wicked Surrender (Regency Sinners 2)
Wicked Scandal (Regency Sinners 3)
Wicked Deception (Regency Sinners 4)
Wicked Captive (Regency Sinners 5)
Wicked Temptation (Regency Sinners 6)
Wicked Sinner (Regency Sinners 7)
Wicked Christmas (Regency Sinners 8)
Series complete
Dragon Hearts – Contemporary paranormal
Nathaniel (Dragon Hearts 1)
Deryk (Dragon Hearts 2)
Bryn (Dragon Hearts 3)
Dylan (Dragon Hearts 4)
Grigor (Dragon Hearts 5)
Garrett (Dragon Hearts 6)
Aeran & Rhys (Dragon Hearts 7)
Dragon Reunion (Dragon Hearts 8)
Series now complete
Regency Unlaced Series:
The Duke’s Mistress (Book 1)
Claimed by the Marquis (Book 2)
Taken by the Earl (Book 3)
Pursued by the Viscount (Book 4)
Desired by a Lord (Book 5)
Captured by a Gentleman (Book 6)
Pleasured by a Duke (Book 7)
Seduced by a Marquis (Book 8)
Tamed by the Earl (Book 9)
Series is now complete
Knight Security Series: Spin-off to ALPHA series
Resisting Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5)
Defying Asher (Knight Security 1)
Challenging Gabriel (Knight Security 2)
Capturing Caleb (Knight Security 3)
Tempting Zander (Knight Security 4)
Enticing Ian (Knight Security 5)
Seducing Ethan (Knight Security 6)
Series now complete
ALPHA Series:
Christmas Alpha (Alpha 1)
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