CHAPTER 21:
COMING TO LIFE
Sitting at his office, Marco drew a hand through his hair and stared into his lap. He couldn’t get the tortured image of Bella out of his mind. That bastard Jackson really did a number on her, but she’d kept it together even though her eyes betrayed her. Those emerald-green eyes haunted him, troubled him, as if she’d been through so much in life. He had the feeling that more than Jackson’s attack impacted her deeply, but what? He wondered where her mind travelled to as he had handed her the glass of water. When their hands had brushed against each other after giving her his card, his chest had tingled. She was beautiful on the inside and out, but he couldn’t think of her that way. It was wrong, and Marco liked the freedom to see different women whenever he had
