CHAPTER FOUR
We went straight to the walk-in shower. I turned on the jets and let out a yelp as warm water hit muscles I hadn’t known were sore. “This is new?”
“Yeah. I had them put it in after we left.”
I placed my palms on the wall and closed my eyes as the jets massaged over me.
“Mmm. I think you’ll never get me out of here.” He moved my hair back from my shoulders, and I massaged lavender-scented shampoo into it. “Is that your favorite scent?”
“I love it on you,” he murmured, and his hands moved possessively over my breasts, stomach, and hips. “Damn, you’re so sexy. Alluring. I can’t keep my hands off you.”
My cheeks warmed. “Rocco…” I sang out in mock-exasperation. I did love hearing how much he wanted me, but he hadn’t recovered.
“You are, and I can’t resist you,” he said. His hand reached low on my stomach, and I placed mine over it. What would it feel like with our baby inside?
Rocco moved his hands away and let out a shaky laugh. “What are you doing?”
“Uhm, nothing.” I bit my lip and moved my head under the spray.
He placed a kiss on my shoulder. “You all right?” His tone was light, but I knew he hadn’t missed what I’d done.
I turned my head toward him and put on my best smile. “Yeah, well, uhm, a lot has happened—”
“Like what?”
“Not yet. Let’s have a little time to ourselves. You’ve just got back.”
He winced as he rubbed shampoo into his hair, and I helped him. “Yeah. I need a break.”
There were bruises and scrapes on his body reminding me of the danger he’d been in. I grimaced. “You must be in pain. Why did you snowmobile?”
“It’s usually fun. My injuries are nothing compared to George. He broke his leg and arm.”
I grimaced. “Oh, my goodness. How?”
“He’s an idiot.”
I frowned. “Why do you think that? It was an accident. Right?”
“Yes, it was. But what do you call a man who made crew film his self-designed snowmobile during a blizzard?”
“I’d call him an ass. George studied automotive engineering?”
He snorted. “Nope. He had it built with his ‘trust me, bro’ tech wits.”
“That’s insane.”
“Yep. And I’d gone against my better judgment riding with him. Rick said the snowmobile threw him like a rag doll.”
“That’s awful. But I thought he was your friend.”
“He was. And get this, while I was on the it with him, he announced he’s creating his own movie studio instead of investing in mine.”
My mouth dropped open. “What the hell? No way.”
He touched his heart and pointed up. “To God.”
I snorted. “Wow, I’m surprised. Your mom wasn’t too keen on him, but he seemed genuinely interested. What a jerk.”
Rocco smirked. “Yep. I knew he was a flake, but I took it as a test to see how desperate I am for his investment.”
I grimaced. “You’re not.”
“Not enough to debase myself further to his whims.”
“Why bother with him at all?”
“Because having investors is the only way to do it. It’s business.”
The Marinis could easily pay for it. But I guess using your own money was not the thing to do. However, George had sounded so keen before.
I huffed. “Why dangle a carrot in front of you?”
He clasped my waist. “For attention. I won’t be as accommodating for him in the future.”
I wrinkled my nose. “Yeah. Forget George…but do you have other investors?”
“Not yet, but more will come to me. The Age of Sin smashed box office expectations, and it’s up for more awards.”
I raised my brows. “Any I might know?”
“It has seven nominations for the Saturn Awards.”
I clasped my hands excitedly. My favorite genres were sci-fi and fantasy, which the Saturn Awards honored along with horror. It was one of the few awards I followed. “Wow, that’s so exciting.”
“It is, and the San Sebastián Film Festival is in Spain soon. We’re going.”
I raised my hands and shook my hips. “Woohoo!”
He grinned broadly. “Hmm, I want to see more of that, but don’t get too excited yet.
It’s more like, I hope we can make it there.
I’ve got Marini Corporate, the will, and a brand shoot in Milan.
We have production meetings on other projects.
Some I’ll need to give input on before I step back and work at Marini Corporate.
” His smile turned rueful, and my heart contracted.
He was right back to work and seemed to accept his dream would take longer.
He deserved better than that. I felt the urge to tell him what I had learned about his mom, Luca’s will, and all the other problems.
“Come on, Adelina.” Rocco touched my face and kissed my lips. “Stay with me.”
I smiled and relented. I was also just as determined to have time just for us.
We finished cleaning up, then dried off.
I reached for a robe in a cupboard, but Rocco took my hand and kissed the back.
I turned around, and he clasped my waist. There was an intensity in his gaze that I’d seen before but didn’t fully understand.
Or if I were honest, I wasn’t ready for it back then.
But now, we were both bare in body and soul.
It was his love for me pouring into my heart, and I could hardly contain it. “Tell me again how you feel, Adelina.”
“I love you, Rocco,” I said without hesitation.
He kissed me, and his hands rubbed down my arms. “I love you, Bella.”
My throat closed, and I couldn’t speak.
Rocco kissed along the curve of my neck and collarbone, running his hands down my arms. I pressed my lips softly against him as he took my hands and moved them behind my back to the marble counter, and without a word, I held on.
He took his time kissing down to tease my nipples with his tongue. “Mmm. Suck it,” I pleaded. “Mmm.” He drew on it hard, and my breasts tightened. I sucked in a breath and moaned.
“I love your big tits.”
“Rocco…”
“They’re sexy, firm, and so soft; I want to rub them all over me.” He nuzzled underneath, and I shivered and tingled between my thighs.
“All over?”
“Yes. Everywhere.”
“Oh?” I whispered, then moaned as he kissed above my mound.
“I’ll keep you naked all the time,” he said.
“And your legs wide like this.” He pressed my thighs, then kissed down my stomach.
“You make me so hard. I have to calm down, or I’d lose control and fuck you raw.
” I shuddered under him as he kissed down to my belly button.
“You want that, Bella? You want to let me fuck you for hours?”
“Ohh.” I panted and moaned. “Ohh, yes.” He stopped and stared down between my legs, and I was too turned on, too impatient to wait. “Rocco, please.”
“I love looking at you. You’re beautiful, aroused and so wet, so needy for me,” he said possessively. His features hardened with lust, and that took him over. I never felt more desirable than when he dropped all guards and let himself get lost in me.
“I love you,” I said, and it came easily from my lips, but the feelings made my heart swell into my throat.
“I want your love. I need all of you.” He lifted my leg onto his shoulder and sank his tongue inside me.
I clutched the counter’s edge and arched my back as pleasure coursed through me.
The sound of his hot licks made it too hard to keep from coming, and I could not hold back the climax that I knew would shatter me.
“Wait for me, Bella.”
“Mmm, I can’t stop…please. Ohh…” Rocco sucked my clit and pumped his fingers in, and I trembled and twisted.
He grabbed my thighs, and I came, shaking hard as ecstasy flowed through me.
I felt the gush and pushed his shoulders, but he held on, and I let go, his tongue lapping my pussy as I spasmed.
He wiped his mouth, and I was too weak to cover my eyes, but my skin felt hot.
“I love it, Bella.”
“Oh, my goodness.” I turned away and let out a nervous laugh.
He rose to his feet and took my chin, his gaze soft.
“I love everything about you. Never doubt it.” His conviction sent my heart pounding.
This is why I don’t want to betray this man.
He deserved my honesty and loyalty… not just trying to have a baby behind his back. His love kept me feeling blissful.
It was as if I floated. He held on to my waist as I placed my arms on his shoulders, and he led us out of the bathroom.
My leg brushed the mattress, and I let out a gasp as he lifted me and lightly tossed me on the bed, his hands clasping my legs and pushing my thighs wide.
He bent down and buried his head between my thighs, and I cried out, “Again?”
He let out a deep laugh. “Yes, again. For me, you will.” His tongue lapped hot on my clit. He groaned and tunneled his tongue inside me, his fingers stroking my clit. I didn’t know if I could, and I was already so sensitive.
“Wait. It’s too much. Please, Rocco. I-I don’t think I can…”
“You can. Let me show you.”
I surrendered, and Rocco went back to pumping his fingers in and out of me and teasing my clit with his hot tongue.
I could feel my body tighten more and more.
Ohh, my God. My thighs shook and stiffened, and I gaped, panting and moaning loudly.
I lifted my hips, and as a wave of ecstasy took over me, I shook and grabbed the sheets. “Ohh, ohh, yes. Yes, Rocco.”
“Yes, Bella.” He moved up on his knees, lifted a leg, and positioned his cock at my entrance. We both cried out as he thrust in and out in deep, sensual drags, grinding inside me. “You, Bella, only you,” he rasped between heavy breaths. “You feel it, too.”
My chest tightened, and my eyes stung. His hand touched my chin, and our eyes connected and held as he moved over me.
He was a dark angel, lost in me. His rhythm grew faster and harder, and I could hear the sweet, hot, slick sounds of him fucking me.
I moaned louder, feeling the tension in my inner walls tighten, reaching that sweet oblivion, that sweet ecstasy.
He pulled all the way out and thrust back in hard.
“Ohh, it feels so good. Oh, yes, Rocco.” I lifted my hips to meet his thrusts, my whole body throbbing and vibrating.
“Mmmm. I feel that, Bella. Fuck.” His thrusts became faster and chaotic. He stroked my clit, and I came, vibrating, shaking hard, with my inner walls spasming.
He roared, his powerful body shuddering hard. I pulled on him and his arms, and he collapsed on top of me, his cock throbbing inside.
I moaned in ecstasy and contentment, my legs around his body, holding him as we caught our breath.
As our hearts beat wildly together, I thought of our love.
If we had to have a child now, would it really alter any of our feelings?
We’re in love, and any child we had would be created in that love. We’d still reach our dreams.
Maybe we can have it all, Rocco.