Chapter 35
Massimo
The minute we get through the front door of my ocean estate and I have her upstairs, I scoop her into my arms and carry her to my bed, settling her onto my lap.
“You’ll be safe here, kitten. Jimmy will be here with the others, and no one can get through to this estate without setting every alarm we have off, okay? It’s safer than anyone would think.”
Those dark eyes meet mine. “Where are you going?”
“Don’t ask questions that you don’t really want to know the answers to, kitten.”
The light I’ve always loved is still there, gentle and beckoning, but there’s something else, too. A resilience in the face of danger that I would not have expected but have to admit is admirable at a time like this. “I need to get rid of some loose ends.”
Even she hears her sharp intake of breath. “Who, because I am a loose end.”
My eyes narrow. “Our enemies.”
Sophia nods, her eyes turning away for a moment as she inhales a deep breath and then suddenly as though full of resolve turns those dark brown eyes on me. “I’m about to do the unthinkable, trusting the enemy with my life. I trust you, Massimo, I heard you downstairs. Thank you.”
I frown, balancing her on my lap, tucking a strand of hair behind my kitten’s hair. “Heard what?”
“You order the protection of my family, and that a hit was put out on the Cassone family, including me.”
My arm wraps instinctively around her, swearing under my breath. “That conversation wasn’t intended for your ears, kitten.”
“I know. I wasn’t intentionally eavesdropping or anything like that. I went to find you and overheard you in the great room. I made it upstairs before I heard your father burst in the door yelling. I couldn’t quite make out what he said.”
My lips tighten. It’s not enough that she was caught in the middle of the Amorte feud, now she has to endure my father’s wrath as well. “He was blowing off steam, not happy with the situation, but he’ll calm and do what needs to be done, just as he always has.”
Sophia’s brown eyes look genuinely sad. “He hates me.”
I tilt her chin, so she has no choice but to look at me when I speak. “He doesn’t know you, Sophia. He hates the idea that I’ve started a war…”
But she finishes my sentence. “… yeah, for a Cassone.”
“You were not the cause of this. It was brewing for a very long time. It was always going to erupt, we were just trying to prevent something that was always coming between the families. I knew it and so did Desiree.”
My lips capture hers, silencing anything further with the intensity of my kiss, my hand snaking beneath her hair and holding her firmly as I ravage her with my need as though she’ll try to get away. But nothing could be farther from her mind.
She strokes my face as she breaks our kiss. “In the face of an attempted kidnapping, you came to my rescue, in the face of darkness, a war against my family, you stand tall to protect them and me. The dark-eyed devil I have always been taught to hate has somehow become my knight in shining armor.”
I have never been anyone’s knight in fucking armor, but for her, I’ll be whatever the fuck she wants.
Sophia nuzzles against my neck, kissing along the column of my throat, as my hands slide around her hips, grasping her firm ass cheeks and positioning her exactly where I want her to be.
She kisses my neck and ear, whispering as the heat of her pussy rubs against the bulge that is dying to sink deep into her heat. “I want you now,” she whispers.
I let out a deep-throated growl, knowing she’s in as much of a hurry as I as we undress and completely bare each other, and with one swift move I lift her and lower her onto my rod, driving her to the very end of me, right where I want her to be.
The feel of her cunt wrapped around me, squeezing on every upstroke causes my balls to draw up in anticipation of losing myself in her velvety heat.
But Sophia is not in charge of her pleasure, no matter what she thinks. I quickly roll her beneath me, caging her to my bed, splaying her arms apart, causing her to wrap those slender ankles around my waist even tighter.
She likes it this way, deep and relentless.
My kitten lets out a little moan that drives me deeper and faster, thrusting with need, until she’s panting my name, over and over, the very name the little hellcat swore that she’d never say while riding on the end of my dick, and when I thrust deep and right to the end of her this time, she screams my name. “Massimo!”
The sound of her panting my name sends me over the edge right along with her, both of us riding the waves, a pummeling force that takes both of our breaths away.
Sophia shivers in my arms as I hold her through it all, until every last tremor is gone and our bodies have eventually calmed.
I push a wayward strand of hair from her face so I can see her beautiful, expressive eyes.
She doesn’t look away, knowing exactly what this means. “I lost the bet,” she whispers.
I kiss her beautiful warm and moist lips. “Then tomorrow you will pay your debt.”
“You’re serious? You want to be married tomorrow? My father will forbid it. Your father will forbid it. We’re already in the middle of war and this will just throw kerosene right onto the already blazing flames.”
I stroke the tips of her nipples still pebbled and sensitive to my touch. “A deal is a deal. Tomorrow, you will be my wife, we will seal the contract with a kiss. At the end of the year, if you no longer want to be married, god as my witness, I will let you go.”
Her dark eyes search mine as her mind tries to wrap itself around how everything will work, but I place a finger on the warmth of her lips, quieting her worry.
“Trust me, kitten. Tomorrow, I’m going to make you my wife. You’ll say I do and we’ll seal it with a kiss.”
Keep Reading Massimo and Sophia’s story:
Sophia:
I’m indebted to the mob boss, there really is no choice. I’ll play along, be the devil’s little pawn, as long as he keeps his promise. No matter that every kiss or demand from the dark-eyed devil makes me tremble for his touch.
Find out what happens next in A Devil’s Pawn, the second book in the Jersey City Kings series. It is a deliciously dark, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, mafia romance. It also includes an over-the-top possessive anti-hero, kidnapping, spanking and light bondage. Download to keep reading.
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