Chapter 44
ALONZO
“Alonzo,” Rori moans, her hips bucking, riding my face as I suck on her clit, bringing her closer and closer to the brink.
She looks glorious, and I want to see her fall apart for me.
I’ll never get enough. I want to do this over and over, until she’s too spent to do anything but curl into my arms and sleep.
A new position that I’m finding I love the more it happens.
I suck a little harder, making her give a sharp cry, and even though she tries to muffle it with her hand, she doesn’t quite manage it. Satisfaction rolls over me. I want everyone on this plane to hear her. To know that she’s mine, and that the only one who will ever give her this pleasure is me.
I thrust two fingers quickly inside her, giving her just enough pressure, enough friction to have her clawing at my head as her hips buck and a small sob escapes her. “Alonzo, please,” she pleads. “Fuck, please.”
“All you had to do was ask, orsetta,” I rasp when I pull away, swiping my tongue through her folds slowly. Drawing out the torture. She moans, trying to pull me back, and I give a low chuckle.
I love when she’s so needy for me. And who am I to deny her?
I suck on her clit hard, curling my fingers and thrusting them in and out of her exactly as I know she needs, sending her spiraling over the edge with a cry of relief.
My cock throbs with the need to be inside her, but I’m not ready.
Not yet. I lift my eyes, watching the ripple of the orgasm working through her body, the way her mouth drops open and her skin flushes a rosy pink.
If she wouldn’t kill me, I’d record it so I could relive it over and over again.
Instead, I plan to do this as often as I can.
When I finally pull away, she’s plaint, her body shivering with small aftershocks, and I rub my face along the inside of her thigh, wiping away some of the arousal covering my face and beard, and I press a kiss to her knee. “So fucking beautiful, orsetta,” I rasp.
She gives a soft chuckle, but the heat in her eyes hasn’t dimmed. She watches me hungrily. “Yeah, well, I hope like fuck you’re not done, because I need your cock inside me. Now.”
I grin, easing back. I strip out of the rest of my clothes, crawling up the bed, enjoying the ravenous look in her eyes as they move over me. Her legs wrap around my hips as I line myself up to her heat, slowly pushing through inside, both of us groaning at how fucking good it feels.
“Fuck, Aurora, I’ll never get tired of this,” I groan, dropping my head into the curve of her neck, nipping and sucking along her skin as I sink deep inside her. Her body instantly tightens around me and I have to fight not to lose control. God, this woman is going to be the death of me.
“You better not,” she pants. “Now fuck me, Alonzo, or I’m going to be very unhappy.”
“Can’t have that now, can we?”
I set a slow pace, drawing out every ounce of pleasure that I can stand. Her body moves with mine, until we’re both covered in a sheen of sweat, staring at each other. The connection is gut-deep, until finally, I can’t stand it anymore. I have to taste her.
I lower my mouth to hers, tasting her, drowning in her, as I pick up speed.
She moans into my mouth, her nails scoring down my back as the pleasure between us rises higher and higher.
And when it breaks, I groan her name from deep in bones as she gasps my name, holding onto me like I’m her only lifeline.
And that’s exactly what I’m going to be for the rest of our lives.
I ease to the side, pulling her with me, uncaring that we’re probably making a giant mess.
I’m not ready to let her go yet. Hell, I might not be ready for that for a long damn time.
Even this morning, when we were getting ready to leave Ilya’s home, I wasn’t more than a few feet away from her.
Afraid that if I looked away, she might disappear again.
To the point that she told me if I didn’t back the hell away, she was going to punch me in the dick and let Hades finish the rest. I didn’t listen, but I think I’ve made up for it.
And if not, I’ll be happy to do it over and over again until I have. Or at least until she’s too exhausted to argue with me about it.
I’m still a prick, sue me. She knows what she’s getting into.
“How long until we land?” Rori finally asks, her voice husky and sleepy.
I lift my wrist to check my watch. “A couple of hours. Are you nervous, orsetta?”
She doesn’t answer right away, but I can feel the tension starting to creep back in.
I rub my hand along her back soothingly.
“Yeah, I am,” she finally murmurs. She turns her head, resting her chin on her arm as she looks at me.
Her green eyes swirl with nerves and dread.
“Sienna might forgive me, but everyone else…I get it that they probably won’t trust me. Especially Lucy.”
“Why Lucy?”
“I knew that it was Lane holding Soren. I knew the danger of that and let it happen. I don’t imagine that she’ll ever really forgive me for it.
Even though Soren was never in danger.” She sighs, and her eyes close.
“And it’s not like Nico is going to be happy with me letting her into the house in the first place. ”
“Did you actually let her in?”
She shakes her head. “No. That night you came to my room, arguing with me and I shoved you out? That was the night she revealed she was there and I knew I had to get you out or she might just decide to get you out of the way.”
“I knew something was wrong, and I’ve kicked my own ass for not insisting you tell me,” I sigh, a twinge of regret hitting my gut. Maybe then, all of this bullshit wouldn’t have happened. Even if the outcome was surprising.
“Nothing was going to stand in her way, Alonzo, and there’s no point in the what-ifs now. Now it’s just moving forward, and that might very well mean that you need to accept that not everyone is going to be happy to see me, or willingly accept me.”
“I won’t stand for them to be cruel or unkind to you, Aurora,” I say firmly. I’ve already told my family we’re heading home, and that if anyone has a problem with Rori being with me, then they can talk to me. I don’t mind bashing a few heads together to get the point across.
Even if it includes a pain in the ass Don that needs to take the giant stick out of his ass.
She shakes her head. “You need to keep out of it, Alonzo. All of this, it falls on me to fix it. It falls on me to explain. You can’t stand in front of me because all you’ll do is make it worse.
I’m a big girl, I’ve done and seen things that are worse than facing your family and the others.
Time will help, but until then, all I need is to know that you’re behind me.
Everyone else, I can work with their timelines. ”
Damn it, I know she’s right, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
I lift my head to press a quick kiss to her mouth.
“I don’t like to see you hurting, orsetta.
Especially with everything else you’ve been through.
I’ll try not to interfere, but that’s all I can offer.
When it comes to you, I’m not exactly the most rational. ”
She grins. “Yeah, I got that.” She stares at me for a moment, her grin slowly dropping away, until finally she says, “I’m also nervous about you and me.”
I startle at that. “About us? Why?” How can she be having doubts about us? This woman is my everything. It’s not like I travel across the country, fighting dangerous assassins for fun.
“Because you and I haven’t exactly had a normal relationship, Alonzo,” Rori moans.
“We’ve been at each other’s throats, we’ve fought, and now with all of this behind us, how the hell are we going to be in a normal situation?
I’m not exactly a housewife, and I’m not going to be happy sitting home twiddling my thumbs.
I don’t know what my life is going to look like now.
Not to mention, you live in another country, so it’s not like I can continue bounty hunting either.
I have money, more than I know what to do with actually, but that doesn’t mean I can—”
“Aurora,” I interrupt firmly. I can practically see the spiralling thoughts twirling in her head as panic starts to set in.
She snaps her mouth closed, staring at me.
“Let’s get this out of the way now so there is no doubt.
I love you. And that means I love you as you are.
I never expected you to be a woman who would want to sit at home and suddenly become a housewife.
Do I hope we have our own family some day?
Yes, but not now, not for a while. I want you to myself for a bit. ”
“Yeah, we haven’t talked about that.” She winces. “The idea of kids freaks me the hell out. I don’t know that I’ll be a good mother with my background.”
“Then we don’t have them.”
“You can’t give up your dreams for me, Alonzo.”
“Aurora, the only dream I have is growing old with you. If children are not something we decide to have, then that’s fine.
It’s not like there won’t be lots around with the way my brothers and the Carusos are dropping like flies.
Hell, even Sofia will probably have a few eventually.
We will make those decisions together, Aurora, but not until you’re ready. ”
She relaxes instantly. “And what if in a few years you realize that you want something else? You want all that, and I don’t want to give it to you? Or we just realize that we don’t work?”
Impossible, but I keep that to myself. “Then we figure it out, but let me tell you this, Aurora. I love you, and we have been through some of the worst we could ever go through. That will not push us apart. Am I going to fuck up and piss you off? Fucking right, I know I am because I’m a stubborn ass and overprotective of the people I care about.
Are you going to piss me off? Something tells me it’s going to be consistently, but that’s just who we are.
We fight, we make up, and then we keep moving forward together.
But I’m not going into this relationship waiting for those moments.
I’m looking for the good ones. The memories we create, and the highs that we get to experience together, whatever those may be. ”
“And some really hot sex,” she adds cheekily.
I chuckle, running my hand down to cup her ass.
“Some really fucking hot sex. And I plan on doing that as often as you’ll let me.
” I smile at her. “We’ll make this work, Aurora.
And we’ll set our own pace and expectations for each other.
No one else gets to dictate that for us.
All I need is you, with me, and willing to put in the work with me. ”
Her smile is warm. “I can do that. And I want the same from you. Well, that and your patience. I’m going to fuck this up.
My only relationship was when I was married to Mishka, and that was never traditional.
This one, this is the one that has to count, so just know that I’m going to fuck up. Probably a lot in the beginning.”
“Then we communicate and we figure it out.”
“From the stories I’ve heard, your mother liked to throw things at your father in her style of communication. Maybe I’ll be the same.” Her grin is wicked.
I laugh. “Then it’s a good thing I’ve learned to move fast, isn’t it?” She kisses me, sinking into me as it deepens. It’s not a passionate kiss, but easy and full of promise. When she pulls away, I smile at her. “We might have to set some ground rules though on you using Hades,” I tease.
She grins. “And ruin my ace in the hole? Forget it.” Then she snickers. “And as it is, I might need to work on training a new puppy for Mila, even if her father is trying to forbid it.”
I chuckle, thinking back to that argument that was raging on before we left. Mila insisted that she needed a dog of her own for protection, and she wanted to hire Rori. Zakhar was fiercely against it, insisting that they already had Freya.
Ilya stood there, scowling and pissed Lane had disappeared on him.
Again. After she drugged him so he couldn’t chase her until she had a head start.
The crazy fucker wasn’t even pissed about the drugging part, in fact he had just grinned and said it was their thing.
The same thing Lane told Rori last night before disappearing, apparently.
I don’t know what the hell to think about any of that, but I know that I don’t want to be around when all that shit eventually implodes. And it only solidifies what I already know.
Russians—present company mostly excluded—are a whole other breed of insanity.
“Titus already mentioned that he might talk to you about helping with the dogs we have and are training,” I tell her, refusing to think about any of that again. It’s done, and I’m ready to move on.
She looks at me in surprise and then beams. “Really?”
It makes me smile seeing her so happy. “You’ve trained Hades, and while our men are good at what they do, Titus isn’t one to turn down the possibility of making them even better.”
“I kind of want another dog to train anyway. Maybe a Malinois this time. They’re really smart working dogs. Crazy, but fun.”
“Whatever makes you happy, but none of them are sleeping with us, orsetta. I’m not having anyone between the two of us in our bed.”
She chuckles. “I think I can manage that.” Then she gives me a wicked grin as she slowly eases down. “Especially when I want to give my man a thank you blowjob to distract him from all the shit I’ve done to piss him off.”
I chuckle, then groan when she reaches my hardening cock, taking it into her mouth. Fuck, if this is how she’s going to distract me, I won’t care what she’s done.