Chapter 44
Chapter
Forty-Four
ENZO
Even if she doesn’t stay, tonight was a success. For the rest of my days I will remember this night for the sound of her musical laughter and the sparkle in her eyes—the kind I worried I might never see again. Even if she doesn’t stay…
Fuck that. I’m gonna make her stay if it kills me.
I see the last of my brothers out and head to the kitchen to find her loading dishes into the dishwasher. “I would have taken care of that,” I tell her.
She wipes her hand on a dish towel. “I was happy to help. And it’s all done now.”
Her choice of words provokes something in me. I’m across the expanse of kitchen in three strides, until I’m standing directly in front of her. “Are we done too?”
She drops the towel onto the counter and tips her chin so she’s staring up at me. “What you did tonight was wonderful. Thank you.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed it. Rafael suggested I get you a Bugatti or a tiger.”
Her eyes sparkle with excitement. “Oh my god. That would have been so cool.”
My hand goes to her waist of its own accord, like I can’t be near her and not be touching her. “I know that you’re talking about the tiger and not the three-million-dollar car. And that wasn’t an answer to my question.”
She rests her hand on my cheek, pushes onto her tiptoes, and presses her lips over mine.
Obviously, she’s trying to distract me, and obviously, it works.
My free arm snakes around her waist and I crush her to me, taking full control of the kiss.
I claim her mouth with my tongue, wanting to possess every inch of her.
She moans and I swallow the sound, letting her grind herself against my rapidly hardening cock.
Without breaking our kiss, I pick her up and wrap her legs around my waist. I’ll get answers from her later. Right now, all I want is this. My mouth on hers. My hands on her body. My cock inside the heaven of her wet pussy.
I carry her straight to bed, lay her down and peel off her clothes, kissing every inch of her skin as I expose it to the cool air. She shivers with every brush of my fingers on her flesh.
Sitting back on my haunches, I admire her naked body, drinking in every bit of her like I might never get the chance to again. “You’re so fucking beautiful, baby.”
I pull off my shirt, and she rakes her nails over my chest, down my abs and to my waistband where she unfastens my belt and pants.
I plant a quick kiss on her lips, but those are not the lips I want my mouth on.
I drag kisses over her skin, from her collarbone to her nipples, nipping at each one.
A gentle bite before dragging my teeth down her stomach, my lips never leaving her body.
“Enzo,” she whines, bucking her hips against me.
I spread her thighs wide and drop my head between them until her incredible scent floods my senses. “Fuck, you’re addictive, baby. I can never get enough of this sweet cunt.”
She arches her back, pressing herself into my waiting mouth. I eat her like a man starved, loving the desperate sounds she makes as I bring her to the edge. My cock leaking in my boxers with every taste of her.
“You get so fucking wet for me, Rayne.” I slide two fingers inside her, and she falls apart for me, her thighs trembling and her pussy leaking cum all over my face.
I lick her through every last tremor, drawing out her orgasm for as long as possible.
Then I move back up the bed, sealing my mouth over hers and letting her taste herself on me.
“You see how fucking incredible you taste? I swear I could live on nothing but your cum for the rest of my days and be a happy man.”
“I’m sure that’s not even remotely healthy,” she pants, her eyes twinkling with happiness.
I settle between her spread thighs, pin her wrists above her head and sink inside her.
“God, Enzo,” she mewls.
“I know, baby. You feel so fucking good.” I pull out and drive all the way back inside her, filling her completely, until her eyes are rolling and she’s begging for me to fuck her harder.
I flip her onto her front, pull her up onto all fours, and then I rail into her with everything I have, taking and giving her everything we both need.
She cries out my name, her fingernails digging into the duvet. “Fuck, I wish you could see how well you take my cock. The way your pussy swallows me whole is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.”
She throws her head back, her pussy walls rippling around me as she comes hard for me. When I finish inside her a few moments later, filling her tight cunt with my cum, I almost black out from the strength of it.
We fall onto the bed in tangle of sweaty limbs and heaving breaths, and I immediately roll onto my back and pull her into my arms—where she belongs.
She lies on her side, head nestled into my shoulder while she trails her fingertips lazily over my abs. We don’t speak for a while.
“Enzo?” she says softly, her sweet voice washing over my skin like a caress.
I cup her jaw, tip her head back so I can look at her gorgeous face. “Yeah, baby?”
“Did you swear your loyalty to Carmine for all these years to protect me?”
Damn my brothers. I bet it was Rafael who spilled his guts. “Who told you that?”
“Nobody. Well, not exactly. Luca intimated, but—”
“Luca told you?” I ask her, surprised as hell that it was him who ratted me out. Sorry, Raf!
“Not exactly. He just kind of lined up a few puzzle pieces and then I put them together.”
“Fucker,” I grumble.
“So, did you do that?”
I brush the pad of my thumb over her cheekbone. “Yes.”
Her hazel eyes fill with tears, and I’m not sure why. “He also seemed to know a lot about my life. Where I live and work. Is that something to do with you too?”
Shit! Is that what the tears are about? Is she upset because I was spying on her? If Luca has fucked this up for me, at least any more than I have done for myself, I will kick his ass. “I kept tabs on you, yes. I had to make sure Carmine was keeping to his end of the bargain.”
She shuffles up into a sitting position. “Why did you do that?”
I blink, not entirely sure which part of what I did she’s referring to.
“You never really trusted Carmine. It must have been hell working for him all these years,” she says.
I swallow hard, thinking of all the fucked-up shit I did for him and how he must have been laughing behind my back all along—him and my father—knowing my girl was innocent.
Fury rises in my throat, leaving a bitter taste on my tongue.
And then I look into her sweet, trusting face, and the anger dissolves faster than ice in the Nevada sun. “It was worth it.”
“Even when you thought I’d betrayed you?”
I nod. “Even then, baby. I never for a single second stopped loving you, even though I tried. I really fucking tried.”
She gives me a sad smile. “Yeah, I tried too.”
Tried? Like she didn’t succeed. I roll on top of her, holding her jaw in my hand while she holds my heart in hers. “I love you, Rayne. There has only ever been you, and there will only ever be you.”
She caresses my cheek. “I love you too, Enzo.”
I have never wanted or needed anything in my life more than I need her to stay with me, and so, for the second time today, I beg her. “Stay with me, Rayne. I can’t lose you again, baby.”
She presses her lips together, her eyes shining with tears. “Do you trust me?”
“Yes. With my fucking life and my heart and my goddamn soul. Yes.”
“Will you always be honest with me?”
“Yes.” The answer comes easily, even as I know I’m still keeping a huge secret from her.
But she’s never actually asked me about that.
She made assumptions that day too. So I’m not lying, merely…
not disclosing something. And I will tell her—if she stays.
I’m not going to tell her as a cheap ploy to make her stay.
“I want to believe you won’t hurt me again.” A solitary tear rolls down her cheek and I kiss it away. “But I’m not sure if I trust myself around you. You scramble my senses.”
I kiss her other cheek. “I know I can’t erase what I did, no matter how badly I want to.
I have no way of proving that I won’t ever hurt you again.
But I can promise you with every fiber of my being that you will always be my priority.
I will spend every moment of the rest of my life being the kind of man you deserve.
But if we’re going to make this work, I need you to take a leap of faith with me, baby. Please?”
She takes a deep breath. “I’ll stay.”
My heart soars.
“Not forever.”
And bottoms out in my chest...
“It’s not not forever though.” She screws her eyes closed like this is painful. “I’m not explaining myself very well.”
“It’s okay,” I assure her. “Take your time and tell me what you’re trying to say.”
She takes another breath. “I told you being around you scrambles my senses,” she huffs.
“Baby, I can barely think straight whenever you’re anywhere near me, so you’ll get no sympathy from me in that regard.”
She rolls her eyes, my sassy little vixen.
“You were saying,” I urge her, holding my breath for her answer and focusing on the fact that her first response was she’s staying and that’s good.
“I mean, I’ll stay and we can see where this takes us. But this doesn’t mean we pick up where we left off six years ago. Baby steps. Okay?”
That she’s staying is all I’m focused on. I nod my agreement. “Baby steps.” Baby steps all the way to me putting a ring on your finger and fucking my babies into you until we fill a house with them. Just like we dreamed of.