Nico’s POV
Nico’s POV
I had to give Eliana credit. She followed my rules pretty damned well.
It had been two weeks since the marriage became legal.
We had sex about three more times since then, but I knew she was fuckin’ a couple of my men too.
I didn’t give a fuck. As long as I didn’t hear about it, see it, or it affect my plans, she could do whatever the fuck she wanted.
I soon realized she was using me as much as I was using her, so it had turned out to be a mutual deal in the end.
I was in my office, getting a blowjob from one of the girls I hooked up with occasionally. I was stressed trying to figure out how to go after Dominic Gutierrez so I could take over his clan, and become number two in our world.
I heard a knock on my door, so I said, “Come in.”
Leo, my second entered, looking down at the woman between my legs. He grunted in disgust, shook his head slightly, but said, “Got a minute.”
I waved him in. But he just stood there looking at Candy, or Casey, what the fuck ever her name was.
Leo wasn’t a prude, but he was disgusted with how open some of the men were with sex in the house.
He never went to the brothel as I did, but I had particular kinks to get out there that most women you meet in bars and clubs aren’t that open to.
I like to dominate, in and out of bed. When you grew up in the shit life I had, you needed control wherever you could get it.
I tapped Candy, or Casey, or whatever on the head to let her know time was up.
I wasn’t feeling it anyway. Maybe head to the brothel later and have some fun with Electra.
That was her stage name, but it explained her personality with me.
Fiery sun. She took whatever I gave her.
Raphael’s was my go-to place when I needed a release that didn’t include violence.
But when I needed that kind of release, I went to fight clubs.
Got out all that pent up aggression, since I couldn’t beat the shit out of that pretty boy Dominic. At least, not yet.
The woman looked disappointed, but I knew as soon as she left the office she would just find one of my other men to please. It’s how we worked around here.
The woman left and Leo gave her a disgusted look as she left. She ignored him.
“So.” He said as he came in and sat in the chair across from my desk.
“So,” I said back. “What?”
He smirked at me. Leo was definitely better looking than me, lucky fuck.
He was shorter than me by about two inches.
I was broader across than him, but I grew up fighting in the streets longer than him.
I’d heard people say I looked like a fuckin’ bulldog.
Fuckers! I once asked Leo if I looked that bad.
He said, “You ain’t pretty, but you ain’t ugly either.
” I guess that was meant to be a compliment.
I met Leo back when I was in my late teens. I had been in a back alley, fighting one against four when he came up on the fight. The fucker sat back and watched for a bit before stepping in and helping. After those four fuckers were on the ground, I asked him why did he even bother to step in.
“I was waiting to see who was winning. I only join the winners.” Fucker!
Leo was two years older than me. We had been running together for a year before I told him who I was.
At first he was pissed, but then asked what my “ambitions” were.
I told him I wanted my own clan. He has been loyal to me ever since.
Probably the only one I knew I could count on to the end. Him and my aunt.
The only reason I had the money I had was because of my aunt.
My mother’s sister. She was wrapped up tightly in the mafia world.
She knew the game and knew how to play. Unlike my mother.
I did love my mother, but she was considered weak and a liability in this world.
My aunt and I took care of her the best we could.
Aunt Tania tried not to talk down about mom, but I knew she considered mom a disappointment.
Aunt Tania had introduced mom to this world.
Aunt Tania helped me with investments, which was how I made most of my money.
She was really good at it, or at least she knew people who were.
I grunted. “What the fuck, Leo?”
“Your wife is apparently giving some of the women around here a hard time.” He smirked, looking amused.
“Oh for fuck sakes! What is she doing?”
“Bitch slapped Cynthia for using one of her favorite glasses.”
I put my head in my hand.
“And……”
I raised my head partially to look at him. “And what?”
He was still smirking, finding this all quite amusing obviously. “She told Jade that she can fuck you all she wants, but she’s the wife who can kick her ass to the curb.” He started laughing.
I put my head back in my hand. “For fuck sakes,” I muttered.
Still amused, he continued, “At least she doesn’t try that shit with you. Or any of us men. She at least knows her limits.”
I raised my head to look at him, not as amused, “Yeah, I guess it could have been worse.”
Still amused, but his smile dipped a little, he said, “Yeah from what I’ve heard from our guys, apparently your wife is a talker. Her sister, the one you were after first,” I grimaced at his choice of words, “she’s a lesbian, so there would not have been any sex.”
I shrugged. “Didn’t need the sex. Just the alliance.”
“And she is apparently rigid about rules and appearances.”
“Hmmm. Yeah. Guess it could have been worse.”
“Or you could have just ended up with Serafina,” he wiggled his eyebrows at me. I glared at him and flipped him off. Then he busted out laughing again.
“That woman is a fuckin’ whore.”
“One that you’ve tapped. And it’s not like you weren’t trying to align with Serena, who is just as much a whore, if not more.” He looked at me pointedly. “And I’ve heard Serena can be an uppity bitch, so Eliana is tame in comparison.”
I had heard Serena used to beat up her sister, “for fun” until she said it got old.
Serena complained her sister didn’t fight back, and when she wanted a fight, she wanted the other party to fight back.
Yeah, probably just as well that shit fell through too.
Keeping Serena on a leash would have been fuckin’ hell.
After the plan fell through and I had made arrangements with Eliana, Serena came to me as if I wanted a hook-up.
I told her to fuck off. I found out later she had said something to Eliana, resulting in Eliana bitch slapping her and dragging her by her hair out of the club they had both been at.
Hadn’t heard a word from Serena since, and she had been blocked from coming to my house ever again.
I told my men point blank, “You want to fuck that cunt, wrap it up double-time and don’t you fuckin’ dare bring her to our place.”
My men knew better. They would not disrespect my rules. I didn’t give that may, so when I did, they fucking listened.
“Eliana can do as she pleases as long as it doesn’t cause problems.”
Leo nodded, still smiling. “I heard you told her to keep her hands off me.” He winked.
“Fuck off, brother.”
He laughed again.
“I appreciate you protecting me from your women.” He laughed even harder. He was lucky I respected him or I would have fuckin’ decked him.