“You are beautiful. Everything about you is beautiful.”
My heart fluttered.
He looked at me with fervent desire and there was lust in his voice.
Despite my joy in hearing him declare his desire for me, I felt hurt.
“You don’t have to lie Enrique.” I sat up straight and blinked away the tears in my eyes. “I have been lied to before. I have heard those pretty words time and time again. But I can’t stand being lied to by you too.”
Enrique walked over to me. He knelt in front of me and held my hands.
His dark eyes looked pained.
“I would never lie to you Rachel..I cannot lie to the woman I adore.”
I gasped, the intensity in his eyes and voice shocked me.
“You adore me?”
He smiled and nodded. “With my entire heart and soul.”
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Rachel Thompson had rejected proposals and dismissed advances from men for years. She refused to believe that any man could be genuinely interested in her. She had secret she was confident would make her undesirable.
Enrique Cortez had taken joy in his bachelor life but when his father stepped back and let him be Viscount , he realized it was time for him to be the man his father wanted him to be. In search for a wife he ends up spending time with Rachel, the witty friend of his sister who asks him to help her find a man willing to sleep with her despite her deep hidden insecurity.
As he does he realizes he wants to prove to her that she is desirable in every way.