CHAPTER 26

Her dark hair was spilled across the pillow and her hand was resting on her chest. She was so beautiful, made for him only… It had been two weeks and, if anything, the chemistry between them kept getting stronger and stronger.

He never considered himself a weak or needy man. He had no addictions… until Norah… She was a different story. If he was in her presence, Leone craved to touch her. If he touched her, he yearned to have wild sex with her. His life was arranged around this hunger.

Leone slipped from the bed and made his way to the shower, mentally and emotionally preparing himself for his day. But once again, thoughts of her, of them crept into his head.

Norah was changing him. Or perhaps that was the wrong word. It wasn't a change, so much as a revelation. She had made him realize why so much of his soul had seemed empty for so long.

He hadn't even realized what he was missing, what he was searching for, until he saw her in tha