7
Carmine
C armine hungrily stared at Saige as they rode in the back of his Rolls Royce. She looked breathtaking as he expected her to in the dress. She’d done her makeup to perfection and pulled her braids up into a bun to show off the large dragon tattoo on her back. Licking his lips, he wanted to eat her pussy right then and there but knew that if they got started, then they weren’t going to be able to stop. He really wanted to give her the whole world, and he hated that he was married to a bitch like Victoria.
“What are you looking at?” Saige smirked at him when she realized he was staring.
He picked up her hand and kissed her knuckles a few times. “I’m looking at the most beautiful woman in the whole world.”
“Awh, C,” she blushed and batted her long lashes. “Thank you. You always make me feel so special.”
“That’s because you are, baby, and don’t ever forget that.”
She nodded and cleared her throat. “A-are you sure you’re okay? You worried me earlier. You had this faraway look in your eyes when I got home.”
The truth was, Carmine had a terrible jealousy streak that he hadn’t shown to Saige. He never had to because she always answered every call and responded to every text. The thought of another man having her drove him up a wall. He knew eventually the day would come, but he’d just have to kill whoever she thought she was interested in. Carmine had a sick obsession with Saige, and while he couldn’t have her the way he wanted, he really didn’t want another man to either.
“Yeah, bae,” he rubbed her thigh. “Nothing for you to worry about. I apologize again if I worried you. It’s just a lot weighing on me right now, but I’m glad we get to spend this night together.”
“Me too, handsome,” she leaned over and kissed him.
They continued talking until they pulled up to their destination. Carmine’s driver opened the door for him first, and then Carmine opened Saige’s door and helped her out. He pecked her lips a few times before he guided her inside the building where the event was taking place. It was a meeting of street bosses to discuss business and make sure everything was on the up and up. Since Saige had no idea what he was really into, he had to spin it like it was just a business meeting. Carmine knew that Domenico was going to be there and was certain he was going to pop a lot of shit. He wasn’t worried about it though because he knew how to shut his big brother up.
“Carmine, so nice of you to join us,” Nico approached them almost immediately when they walked in. “And who is this?”
Carmine’s jaw clenched. He was ready to swing on his brother already. “Nico, this is Saige. Saige, this is Nico.”
“Domenico. Carmine’s brother,” Nico extended a hand in Saige’s direction with a smirk.
Saige’s eyes went wide before she shook his hand. “Oh, hello. C, you didn’t tell me you were going to have any family here tonight.”
“C? Is that a nickname?” He smirked a little harder. “I’m sorry, how do you know my brother again?”
“Friends, we’re friends. We met a while back,” Saige quickly answered.
“Does Victoria know about this friend ?” Nico sipped his drink.
“Fuck off,” Carmine gritted, grabbing Saige’s hand to walk away from Nico.
“Victoria is his wife , if you were wondering. You seem like the inquisitive type,” Nico called after them.
Saige halted in her steps and snatched away from Carmine. “You’re married?”
“With two kids!” Nico shouted with a laugh.
Carmine groaned inwardly. His gut was telling him that it was going to be a bad idea to have his brother and his mistress in the same room. Turning around, Carmine charged at Nico, knocking him on his ass. He started throwing damaging blows to his face and side. He’d had enough of Nico’s shit, especially when Carmine had information on him that would make their father want to kill him.
“Carmine, c’mon man,” a male’s voice spoke while pulling him off of Nico.
C turned to see their family doctor, Quadir, standing there. “Get off me, Qua.”
“Not here, bro. Not in front of everybody.”
Tuning Qua’s words out, Carmine looked around for Saige and spotted her heading towards the door. “Saige!”
When she kept walking, he took off in her direction. His blood was boiling and as bad as he wanted to go back and whoop Nico’s ass again, Saige was more important.
“Baby, wait,” he finally caught up to her and grabbed her arm. “Please wait.”
“I have got to be the biggest fuckin’ idiot in the world!” She spun around to face him. “You’ve been lying to my face this whole time! I’m only going to ask you this once, Carmine, are you married?”
“Y-Yeah but it’s much more complicated than you think.”
She pulled her arm away from him and shook her head as tears rolled down her face. “Wow. You know, I’ve been thinking, there’s no way a man as sweet and loving as you is just out here single. But a wife?”
“Please don’t cry,” he felt guilty as fuck. “Saige, I swear I love you.”
“Fuck you,” she scoffed then rushed away from him.
He wanted to go after her again until he realized the whole party was looking at him. That anger that was normally reserved for Victoria and her bullshit was now bubbling inside for Nico. Turning back around, Carmine spotted Nico and charged over to him yet again. If it was up to him, he’d kill Nico with his bare hands for exposing his secret like that. The fight between the two didn’t last long because Quadir was pulling him off Nico for a second time.
“You’ve fucked up now,” Carmine nodded his head. “Wait until I tell Luca what the fuck you had going on.”
Without another word, Carmine stormed out of the building just in time to see Saige hopping in an Uber. He hurried and got in the back of the Rolls Royce and ordered the driver to take him back to Saige’s house. Carmine was fuming with anger and worry more than anything. He was worried that Saige was going to want to end their arrangement now knowing that he had a family. All he could do on the way to her house was hope and pray that she heard him out.
The Rolls was barely in park when Carmine hopped out and ran to the front door. Using his key, he unlocked the door and went inside. He could hear Saige’s sobs from upstairs, so he dashed up the stairs and found her on her bedroom floor, naked and crying. The dress that she was wearing was thrown on the floor along with the shoes.
“Baby, please talk to me,” he kneeled next to her.
She shoved him hard. “Get away from me, Carmine!” She yelled with her chest.
“Saige, I’m sorry, alright? Fuck!” He hit himself in the forehead out of anger. “I didn’t mean for shit to get this deep with you, but it did, and I can’t take it back. I love the fuck out of you.”
“How!” She screamed, looking at him with tears and make-up running down her face. “How the fuck could you possibly love me when you’re married with two kids , Carmine? Huh!”
He teared up seeing how much pain she was in. “Things between me and her are complicated.”
“So what am I? Your little escape?”
“No, baby, you are so much more than that. You are everything to me, Saige, I swear,” he pleaded with her.
“Get out!” She roared, standing to her feet. “Get the fuck out!”
“Saige, I’m not leaving you tonight. I’ll sleep in a different room, but I’m not leaving.”
“Fine, then I’ll leave!”
He grabbed her up as she tried to rush by him. She screamed and kicked, but he held her in a bear hug as they cried together. He felt like shit since he’d hurt her. When they agreed to their situation initially, he didn’t feel like it was necessary to tell Saige about Victoria. In a regular sugar daddy/sugar baby situation, his personal life would be just that—personal. Their situation, however, was anything but regular because there were feelings involved on both ends.
“I’m so fuckin’ sorry, Saige,” he spoke into her neck before placing soft kisses along it and her collarbone. “I love you so much, and I never wanted to hurt you.”
“You made me a side bitch without allowing me to have a say so, Carmine,” she said barely above a whisper.
He sat her on the bed and stared at her. His heart was aching something serious. “You’re anything but a side bitch, Saige. You are the only woman I think about from the time I wake up until I’m asleep. Shit with me and Victoria got complicated after she cheated on me. I was always faithful to her, and she cheated on me, and it hurt me like a muthafucka that she did that. I wanted my marriage to work, but I couldn’t get past the infidelity. I’m still in it because of the kids. If I could be with you full time, trust me, I would.”
“I-I-I don’t even know what to say,” she stuttered as her eyes darted all across the room. “Am I some type of revenge for your wife cheating on you?”
He kneeled in front of her and took her hands into his. “No, love. Saige, when I first saw you, my heart beat in a way that it’s never beaten before. I knew…I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to have you in the way that I wanted, so I settled for this option. We settled for this option, and we’ve been at it for two years. My feelings for you are so real .”
“Carmine,” she whispered as the tears steadily rolled down her face.
“I know,” he kissed her knees and then her thighs. “I know. I’m so sorry,” he gently pushed her legs apart and bit on her inner thigh, forcing a slight moan out of her mouth. “Tell me how to make this right for you because I can’t be without you.”
When he was met with silence, Carmine stuck his face in between her thighs and pulled her clit into his mouth. Since she wasn’t resisting, he was going to thoroughly enjoy her pussy. His fear was that it’d be the last time, so he was going to make the best of it. He spent the next twenty minutes making Saige cum over and over.
“I love the way your pussy reacts to me,” he told her, resting his head on her thigh and looking up at her. “How do I fix this, Saige? Whatever it is, I’ll do it.”
“There’s nothing that needs to be fixed. From now on, we keep this,” she fanned between them with her index and middle finger. “Strictly business. You continue to pay my bills and give me my allowance as usual. We can bump that up to twenty bands a month. I will continue to be available whenever you’re in town. We take the feelings out of it.”
He shook his head and rolled his eyes. “I can’t do that, Saige. I can’t take my feelings out of this. I love you too much. You want twenty thousand? You got it, but I’m not going to stop loving you.”
“Y-you don’t love me, Carmine. You can’t possibly love me when you have a wife.”
“I don’t love her the way that I love you. You and I have something completely different than what I have with her,” he confessed to her.
“Is that why you never wanted to take my virginity? Because of her ?” She looked down at him.
“Love, I knew that if I put my dick in you, I’d want it to stay there forever. I knew that I couldn’t give you forever anytime soon, so I decided not to go there with you. You see how often I’m here just to taste you? Imagine if I knew what your most sacred spot felt like,” he closed his eyes and momentarily relished in the thought before looking at her again. “I’d never leave, Saige. No business would get done, and I can’t have that right now.”
“Are you still sleeping with her?”
“Sometimes,” he answered honestly. “But it’s like… just fuckin’. There’s no emotion there with her. I fuck her to get my rocks off when I can’t get here to you. And yes, I use condoms with her because I know that’s going to be your next question. I’d never play with your sexual health like that.”
They laid in silence for a little while. Carmine could feel his phone vibrating like crazy in his pocket, but he didn’t want to be bothered. He knew it was probably his father or Nico. After he made things right with Saige, he planned to let Luca in on Nico’s little secret.
As he continued laying on her thigh, it was as if her scent was calling out to him. Unable to control himself, Carmine dipped his head down and started licking her essence again. He continued to eat her until she was begging for him to stop. Even then, he didn’t want to stop, but he knew she didn’t have any more energy in her to keep going.
“I love you so much, Saige,” he kissed the lips on her face and lightly stroked her cheek. “Will you let me make this right?”
Searching deep into his eyes, Saige hesitantly nodded. His breathing finally relaxed and so did his heart. Carmine stood up and got completely undressed then slid back into the bed with Saige. Wrapping his arms around her, he nestled his face into the crook of her neck. He’d deal with the rest of the bullshit tomorrow.