Chapter 13

Legs feeling shaky, Selena thanked heaven for her pet’s timely intervention and moved away. Putting Bruno back onto his four stubby legs, Selena straightened with reluctance. She was seriously ashamed of her own behaviour and not enough of a hypocrite to tell off her pet. Not when she was convinced that Bruno had saved her from losing her virginity. She did not believe that Alejandro Perez would have called a decent halt. He did what he liked when he liked. He had hauled her into his arms like a Viking on the rampage. He was violently oversexed. Those daunting truths had sunk in on her. Her mouth felt hot and swollen and she was afraid to look at him. ‘The gardens are a wasteland beyond the wall. There’s really not anything more to show you.’

‘The ancestral mansion?’

A few minutes later she came to a halt a hundred yards from the large shell of the Regency house where her mother had been born. Its ruinous state had embittered Miranda Gomez, who had never got over the conviction that l