29. Luciano
Chapter 29
Luciano
"My ass hurts."
Peering up from my phone, I looked at Juliet with an amused and satisfied smirk. "Well, I wonder whose fault that is," I remarked sarcastically with a hidden chuckle bubbling in my chest.
Unable to reply, Juliet narrowed her eyes at me and stuck her tongue out while flipping me the middle finger. "Asshole." She pouted at me before bundling herself back up in her blanket and turning her body away from me on the couch.
No, her ass didn't hurt from testing her limits. She was fine this morning when we woke. The reason for her perky little behind hurting right now was that she decided to throw a little fit after breakfast when I told her to be patient about the matter last night. I had every intention of keeping my word to her last night about filling her in on everything, just not right after breakfast because I had meetings to attend.
So, here we were in my office, her grumbling away on my office couch while I busied myself with work behind my desk. "Juliet, please leave. I have a video meeting."
"No." She bit back defiantly with a pouting glare.
"Juliet, this is an important meeting, so please—"
God damn it!
The ringing of the call and the popup on the computer screen prevented me from furthering my persistence with Juliet to leave.
"Don't think you're going to get away with this. You better be prepared to cry tonight while you apologize over my knee." I growled at her before straightening myself out and picking up the group call.
"Hey everyone, Leah's gonna be a few moments late. She's wrapping up a patient right now." My friend and fellow Syndicate member said after popping into the group call with everyone else.
"That's fine. She's a busy woman. She already has to put up with enough shit as it is with her work as a doctor and us, so give her a break. We can handle the rest of the nitty gritty shit." Ares, another friend and member, spoke up with a dismissive wave of his hand.
"Hate how we even have to have these meetings in the first place because of stupid people." Aidan groaned in complaint, sighing heavily at the end.
"It's unfortunate, but we all knew times like these were bound to happen when we took over and stomped over the old cockroaches." Ares brought up the silent problem that had been stewing in the pot for way too long. "It's also unfortunate that it has gone on this far because of our own comfort and trust in the old farts. We should have been more diligent and vigilant. If we had, then Luciano's girl probably never would have ended up in that deplorable place, and other victims like her wouldn't have had to suffer because their assailants went on free as a bird."
Sighing heavily, I ran a hand through my hair and leaned back in my chair. "I hate to agree with Ares, but we have gotten a little too comfortable with our power. And I am afraid we are not being taken as seriously as we should be. How we operate things works for us in this day and age, but a lot of people are starting to mistake that as a weakness."
"What's wrong with agreeing with me?" Ares retorted in an offended but playful voice.
"Because you're not the brightest of the bunch," Aidan remarked with a laugh, causing the rest of us to join him. "I swear, they should call you The Hippo instead of The Shark as you are just a mindless idiot with too much rage at the world, and you're the biggest out of the five of us." He added with a snicker and shit-eating grin.
"Excuse you! What I got is pure love and buff muscles. I am a fucking tank, not a cushion. How dare you compare me to such a homicidal beast." Ares argued with a soft scoff. "And as if you're one to talk about size, you walking stick bug. Honestly, how do you pull girls with a dick the size of a twig." He shot back at Aidan, who rolled his eyes in return.
"Because I ain't built like a stick down there." Aidan guffawed. "Ask Evie, she'll be happy to tell—" A pillow flew at Aidan's face, hitting him with a rather loud thwump .
"DO NOT brING OUR SEX LIFE TO YOUR FRIENDS!" Evie's voice shouted somewhere off-screen.
Chuckling, Sebastian lightly slapped his table to regain control of our rowdy group. "We can bust out the measuring tape after the meeting, even though we already know who would win that contest by a mile."
Of course, Leah would pop in in the midst of it. "Whose measuring whose dick? I thought we already established that all of you are inadequate in that area." She chimed in the moment she fully connected. "And no, Aidan, your dumb piercings don't count for anything."
"Well, we all know he only got some extra help in the pleasure department because he had to make up for other areas that lacked." Ares snickered and snorted.
"At least I can make a woman come and know where the clit is, ya blubbering one-second wonder." Aidan's growing irritation showed through his thickening Scottish accent, making us all roll our eyes and chuckle.
"Alright boys, that's enough dick talk." Leah chuckled with a shake of her head. "What's the update? Have we decided on anything or have inklings of a plan?" Leave it to Leah to round us up like a mother done with her children.
"I say we need to remind everyone of who we are because they are starting to get a little cocky and resistant towards us." Ares threw in his two cents. "Sebastian and I will take a trip up north to help smoke out and rid the rats that have been festering for too long."
"I'd rather handle things not so violently, but it is obvious our more hands-off approaches won't cut it. So, Ares is right. We must reinstate ourselves and remind everyone who The Syndicate is and what we are all capable of." Sebastian agreed begrudgingly with a long sigh, running a hand down his face.
"I say the first on our list would be the old mafia we booted off the throne. We have been too lenient with them, and I am tired of trying to play nice to them." Screw respecting them and keeping in the little good graces they had. "It's not much, and I still have my men digging into things, but there has been talking of a revolt against us for them to reclaim their stake of New York."
"Some of my spies have been telling me the same thing, and apparently, it has been going on for a while without any indication of action, though. Which is why I have been holding my hand back." Aidan commented with an irritated sigh. "We need to nip it before it grows out of control."
"Alright, so it seems we are all on the same page about what needs to be done. Are we all in agreement to plan and act on ridding New York of the old mafia and running the streets red?" Ares seemed a little too excited with the storming bloodlust in his bright green eyes, and his crooked grin did nothing to help the growing edge.
Sebastian's shoulders rose and fell with a heavy breath before his voice filled out the speakers. "Those who are in agreement, raise their hand."
Simultaneously, the five of us raised our hands into the air, causing Ares to let out an excited shout of joy. "Finally! You have any idea how bored I've been getting over here in Miami?"
Chuckling, I opened my mouth to speak, but no words came out as my eyes locked with Juliet, who slipped off the couch onto her hands and knees. Clenching my jaw shut, I gave her a look of warning as she crawled over to me with a devious smirk and eyes full of mischief brattiness.
Not wanting to give anything away to the others, I kept my head pointed at the screen while I followed Juliet's sultry figure. I couldn't tear my eyes away from her plump ass swaying with each movement of her crawl as she came closer and closer, rounding the desk and looking up at me with such a determined coquettish smile. And damn my aching cock for twitching and straining to be freed from my pants at the sight of my lovely little vixen.
"Luciano!" Leah's voice snapped my attention away from my stunning lover, making me frown internally. "The hell was that?"
Straightening in my seat, I cleared my throat and quickly lied, "Sorry, I got distracted with coming up with a list of troublemakers I would love to throw into the ring."
"Luciano, you aren't seriously thinking about beating each and every single one of those people to death in a fight match, are you?" Leah asked with a concerned raise of her eyebrows. "But also, you are lying. Your eyes were watching something." And leave it to Leah to call us out on everything being the observant little shit she is.
"I—" I cut myself off by flinching and looking down between my legs with a tense expression.
Quickly, I hit the mute button and harshened my gaze at Juliet, who continued to palm the tent in my pants oh so casually. "Juliet," I growled lowly in warning, reaching a hand down to shove her away.
I didn't get a chance to do so because Sebastian was calling out to me. "Luciano, what's going on over there?"
With a seething, growling sigh, I looked back up at the monitor and forced a smile on my face as I unmuted myself. "Sorry, thought I saw something scamper by. Though maybe it was the runaway squirrel Juliet accidentally let in yesterday." I lied through gritted teeth.
Don't know how much of that they bought because it sounded stupid as fuck. "Just… Let's move on. We have a lot to plan." I changed the subject back onto the matter at hand, sucking in a breath when I felt Juliet's hand wrap itself around my engorged length. I don't even know when she unzipped me and got me out, but I couldn't do anything about it now without seeming weird to the others.
Fucking brat. I swear, I'm gonna take a belt to her ass after this.
As the conversation went underway, I tried my best to focus on it and contribute as much as possible because it was half my territory that was involved, but God fucking damn it, I couldn't. All my energy went to holding myself together, and my attention kept flickering to Juliet, who happily sucked my soul out from my cock.
No matter how inconvenient her timing was, I enjoyed it with such a guilty pleasure. If the others knew I was getting a blowjob in the middle of the damn meeting… Fuck they would never let me live it down. I couldn't bring myself to stop Juliet, though, even though it would be easy to grab her head and shove her off. Not only did her mouth and throat feel too damn good, but it was her boldness and confidence that did me in. I didn't want to crush her by rejecting her when I knew damn well this must have taken so much for her to get over her fears to do this without any kind of prompting or urging from me.
Leaning over onto my desk, I propped my arm up on an elbow and buried my face in my hands. Pretending to nurse a headache, I kept my fingers at my temples as I hung my head to look down at Juliet while my other hand tangled itself into the back of her hair.
Fuck she looked so perfect with her lips tightly wrapped around me while my cock was buried all the way down to the base. Then her tight throat swallowing me as she kept her struggling quiet pressed me right up against the wall of pure ecstasy.
Of course, one look into her big, brown, tear eyes filled with needy delight and cheekiness meant she knew what she was doing and its effects on me.
Little brat.
I was close, so close. Shallow breaths ached at my chest as I tried my best to keep control of my reactions in front of the others. Unfortunately, there was no helping the small groan from escaping when I felt my balls tighten and my release surge out of me into her eagerly waiting mouth.
"Luciano… You alright over there, man?" Aidan asked in a concerned voice, making me let out another groan, this one from the embarrassment spilling over.
Faking a pained smile because it was fucking painful to keep myself straight enough to lie to my friends while Juliet's sweet mouth milked me for all I had, I looked back at the camera with heavy breaths. "Bad migraine came out of nowhere." And unfortunately, it was going to stay because Juliet was going to be a damn headache and a half for the rest of our relationship, no doubt about it.
"Do you want me to come over and give you some meds?" Leah offered with a soft frown of worry.
"No, that's okay. I still have some from the last time you gave me some." I lied smoothly through a shudder. "I think I'll regroup with you guys later. I can't think straight right now. Just text me the details once you guys are done, and I' ll add in my thoughts and shit." After I was through with Juliet for this little stunt.
"Alright, man, go relax with your girl, have her give you a massage and shit, unwind ya bit." Aidan chuckled softly, making me roll my eyes internally.
With a smile plastered, I bid everyone farewell and hung up the call. Immediately after hanging up, I fully slumped in my seat with a drawn-out groan, letting the aftershock of my release ride out with Juliet's soft suckling and giggles.
Lazily, I looked down at her proud expression. "You are in so much trouble." I strained out between my heavy breaths.
Seeing how happy and proud she was broke my hard exterior, causing me to crack an uncontrollable smile as I looked down at her adoringly.
Come on, I couldn't stay upset at such a cute face.
Granted, that didn't mean she would be getting away scot-free.
Giggling, she flicked her tongue against the underside of my half-hard dick. "Do you think you can give me another mouthful?"
" Sono così dannatamente fregato ."