ella

it there and walked back into Dante's study. The masculine scent of dark oa

I slid it off. Inside the platinum band, the engraving mocked me: *D&I Forever*. I placed

tationery, I uncapped his fountain p

ment over the diamond, snapping the velvet lid s

ep. Dante stepped onto the black-and-white marble floor. He re

jaw clenched in undisguised disgust. "Don't start, Isabel

mply extended the ve

rrupting my night?" He brushed past me, his broad shoulder deliberately grazing mine. "Remember

airs. Slowly, I placed the box on the marble table. T

lding only the clothes I had brought from the Falcone estate. From the false bo

the silver coffee percolator. She fr

the cold, absolute authority of a *Donna*, "you will h

oor, leaving the g

te

ella wasn't in our bed. Let her throw her little tantrum in the

the foyer, trembling like a leaf,

th, the kitchen telephone shr

rning paper! They used a photo that makes me look like a

care of it," I growled

olding out the box with shaki

shoved past her, my arm

of the massive Chesterfield sofa and tumbled silently into the d

ng to her knees, rea

aded for the door. "I don't have time for her ch