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we?”
    “Yes, Nathalie, we do,” he said, and drew her into his arms. “The night is young and so are we. Let’s make the most of it.”

    At the end of the evening Antonio walked her back to her hotel. She was tired but pleasantly so. She had enjoyed the evening with him and she understood now what real charm was.
    Her grandpere had been a brusque man by the time she’d gotten to know him, and a part of her was saddened by that. And she knew that the Moretti family—especially Lorenzo Moretti—was responsible for his bitterness.
    But right now, as Antonio walked her to her room, that didn’t seem to matter.
    She knew starting an affair with Antonio Moretti was about the dumbest thing she could do. But she was so tempted.
    They stood right outside her suite and though she had the feeling it would be unwise, she wanted to invite him in for a nightcap.
    Antonio broke into her thoughts. “You are looking at me like I have something you want.”
    “You do.”
    “Name it and it is yours.”
    She tipped her head to the side. “Did you mean it when you said that all’s fair in love and war?”
    “Yes, I did.”
    “You aren’t going to renege on that?”
    “No, I’m not. Are you?”
    “No. But I’ve found that men get mad when they don’t win, regardless of what they’ve said before everything got going.”
    “I think you are trying to ask me if I’m going to act like a baby if I don’t get my way. You should know that I am a man…not a boy.”
    She smiled at the way he said it. She knew Antonio was trying to seduce her. He wanted her to get to know the man behind the corporation and it was in her interest to do the same. Let him get to know the woman she was. Without that she’d never get the advantage over him.
    “So, bella mia, are you going to tell me what you want?”
    “Maybe.”
    “Maybe?”
    “I think being mysterious has some benefits,” she said.
    “Indeed it does in a woman as beautiful as you.”
    She suspected that comment was at least seventy-five percent bullshit, but…“It’s hard to resist such charm.”
    He laughed again, his deep, melodious tones wrapping around her in a dangerous way. She knew she needed to get rid of Antonio. She wasn’t going to invite him in tonight, not after an evening of a full moon shining down over the city as she listened to him weave his tales of the past in that deeply erotic voice of his. Tonight she wasn’t up to sparring with him.
    Her plan was to let him think he seduced her and she wasn’t sure yet if she could sleep with this man and keep her emotions at bay.
    To be honest she’d never been able to do that.
    “Good night, Antonio.”
    “I will see you first thing in the morning for a tour of the Moretti Motors facility.”
    “I’m not sure—”
    “You already agreed to it,” he said. “It will do you good to meet the people who have worked on the design of the Vallerio model. I think you should see the pride that our workers take in being part of that legendary car.”
    “I think you should stop referring to the car as the Vallerio.”
    “Of course. It’s just that I feel that once you see this car you will change your mind.”
    His passion for the car and for the company was obvious and it made her realize she’d made the right choice in not inviting him into her room. She had to understand that with Antonio the company was always going to come first.
    And Nathalie had a personal vow about men who were workaholics. She’d never get mixed up with one. Her father, uncles and grandfather all had been workaholics—and had been absent in the lives of their children and wives, something that Nathalie didn’t want for her own life.
    Not that she was thinking of having kids with Antonio. It was just that getting involved with a man when you knew you were destined to be second in his life was not a smart thing to do.
    And she was a smart woman.
    She met Antonio’s gaze and nodded. “I like your confidence. Tomorrow we will see if