CHARLOTTE
Alexei groans at my words and pulls me close, pressing his lips to mine in a hungry kiss that leaves me so wet I can feel the slickness on my inner thighs. Every cell in my body is screaming for him to fuck me. All I can think about is getting that big cock inside me. He’d felt so powerful in my mouth and impossibly big, and the thought of all that slamming into my virgin pussy had me so nervous and excited I can barely stand it.
His strong hands run down my back so he can cup my ass, squeezing my sore cheeks and reminding me of my earlier spanking. He gives my tongue a hard suck that has me whimpering and running my hands through his hair, pulling him closer and smiling against his lips when I feel his hard cock digging into my stomach.
“Surprised?” he asks, pulling back with a wicked grin. “It’s impossible to have a soft cock when you’re around.”
I run my fingers over his tattooed chest, marveling at how this powerful, dangerous man is about to be my first. My only. Because there’s no way in hell I could ever be satisfied with anyone else, not after I’ve had a taste of how truly good it can be. How could any other man ever measure up to this?
I reach down and dance my fingers along his hard cock, amazed that anything can feel so powerful and so velvety soft all at the same time.
“I’m glad I can make you hard so easily,” I say, lightly stroking his cock. “If I get my way, you’ll always be hard and fucking me.”
He smiles and lays me back down on the bed, positioning his body over mine. “I think my little brat will be getting her way.”
I wrap my arms and legs around him, moaning when he presses the head of his cock against my wet slit. I try not to tense up, but it’s impossible not to. I know how big he is, and I know the pain that’s coming.
Resting his weight on one forearm, he cups my face with his other hand before trailing his fingers lightly down my neck.
“Just relax,” he says, caressing my collarbone before sliding his fingers lower. When he runs them over my nipple, I moan and arch up to him, my body momentarily forgetting about the giant cock positioned at my entrance.
Right as he pinches my nipple and before I can stop myself, I say, “Did you do it?”
His hand freezes, gripping my nipple in a hard pinch between his fingers, but he doesn’t let up, just watches me as I start to squirm beneath him. The mix of pain and pleasure does something to my pussy that has my hips arching up of their own accord.
“You sure you want to know the answer to that?” he asks, arching a dark brow at me.
“Yes. Did you kill that guy?”
“Yes,” he says as if he’s telling me he likes pepperoni on his pizza instead of just confessing to murder. “If it makes you feel any better, he was a very bad man and the world is a better place without him in it.”
“So you are part of the bratva?”
He studies me for a second, pinching and twisting my nipple between his fingers as he thinks about what he’s going to say. “I will answer this one time and one time only because the less you know the better. I’m not a bad man, Charlie. I’m not a particularly good one either, though. Life isn’t black and white, and I’m most definitely more of a grey. I can’t promise you that I’m going to stop doing what I do, but I can promise you that I will always take care of you and be faithful to you. If that isn’t enough, then you need to tell me now, because once I slide my cock inside you, then you’re mine and I’m never letting you go.”
He presses the head of his cock against me, being careful to not breach my pussy lips, but hard enough for me to feel the power that’s waiting just outside. I think about what he’s just said, but then quickly realize that I don’t need to think about it at all.
“It’s enough,” I say, grabbing onto him even tighter.
Yeah, maybe I should leave and never look back, and maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss all the illegal stuff, but I’ve already made my choice. I want this tough, gorgeous Russian, and the fact that he’s as dangerous as he is sexy, well, that’s just icing on the damn cake.
“I want you, Alexei,” I say, “and I trust you. I know you’d never hurt me.”
He gives me a sexy wink. “I never said I’d never hurt you, beautiful.”
He gives my nipple an even harder pinch, making me gasp. “I quite like giving you a little bit of pain.”
There’s no denying the rush of pleasure that races through me at his rough touch. “Hurt me some more,” I say, arching my hips up for him and digging my heels into his ridiculously firm ass.
“Fuck,” he groans before sliding his cock into me, making me scream at the sharp burst of pain and the feel of him tearing through my innocence as he slides inch after thick inch into me, spreading me wider than I ever thought possible.
By the time he’s fully inside me, tears are freely running down my cheeks, and I doubt I’ll ever be able to walk normally again. He kisses and licks my cheeks, groaning at the taste of my tears while his hand massages my tit, taking the sting out of my nipple.
“My god, baby,” he murmurs against my skin. “Your little pussy is so fucking tight.”
I cling to him as he kisses me hard, using his lips and tongue to remind me of all the pleasure that’s right below the pain. He starts to slowly fuck me, his cock igniting all the hidden nerve endings inside me that I never knew I had, and soon the pleasure is far outweighing the pain.
“Fuck,” I whimper against his lips. “Don’t ever stop,” I beg. “Don’t ever stop fucking me, Alexei.”
Fear twisted my bowels. “Veda…” I said quietly. “Don’t ever fucking talk like that. You hear me?”The life drained from her as quickly as it had appeared. I saw it happen with my own eyes, like a balloon deflating. Dropping her eyes, she shuffled around me and into the bathroom, shutting the door behind her. I heard the lock click.My fists clenched at my sides and took four steps away from the door, barely stopping myself from spinning around and punching a hole through it. As she got ready for bed, I stared out the window, not seeing the dance of lights across the lake that normally brought me such a sense of peace. Fed up with her, myself, and this entire fucking situation, I turned on my heel and walked out.But I stopped just outside the bedroom. No. This was bullshit. I’d tried giving her space, and it hadn’t done any fucking good. If anything, it only gave her a reason to withdraw even more.No. I was done giving her her space.Marching back into the room, I went into the close
LUCANearly a week had passed since I’d gotten Veda back. I rarely saw her during the day, just a glance now and then as she went out to the kitchen, the pool, or grabbed a book from the shelves in the media room. Oftentimes she had a bottle of some kind of strong alcohol in her hands that she must’ve pilfered from my stash in the kitchen. She didn’t seem to have a preference as to what kind it was. The only one she spoke to was Lisa, and I would often catch her watching Veda with a worried expression.At night, she was usually already in bed when I got there. The few times I’d arrived a little early, she’d barely said two words to me as she brushed her teeth and changed her clothes. Always hidden from me behind closed doors.She barely spoke to me at all when we were alone, even if I asked her a direct question, so I had Enzo ask her about what had gone down while she was at Mario’s, thinking maybe she would open up to him. She told him everything she could remember about the apartme
LUCA“Luca, can I talk to you for a sec?”Tristan was waiting for Enzo and me when I got out of the SUV. I was just getting home from my newest club, I was tired and hungry, and I wasn’t really in the mood for whatever the hell it was that made Tristan have that look on his face. Some shit had gone down between one of my guys and a member of the cartel who was in town to make a collection from me. The bartender called me as soon as things started to get heated, and I’d gotten there just in time to keep my cousin from getting shot. I didn’t need this shit right now. I had other things to worry about here at home.“Can it wait?”“No. I don’t think it can.” He and Enzo exchanged a look I couldn’t quite read.My stomach growled. I was anxious to get inside to see if I could coax Veda into having dinner with me. “Can we at least go in the house?”Tristan put a hand on my arm as I went to walk past. “Luca, just give me a minute here.”I stopped, glancing back at him over my shoulder. Someth
I CAME BACK to full consciousness slowly, like I was swimming up from the deep end of the pool. I bobbed on the surface of the water for a moment, only to sink back into the peaceful depths. Someone tucked the comforter close around me, and then I fell back into oblivion.The second time, I became aware of birds chirping outside and I smiled. But I fell asleep again without realizing it.It wasn’t until the third time that I was able to stay awake. Mostly because of the pressure of my bladder.Opening my eyes, I blinked against the sunlight and immediately closed them again with a moan. Who the hell opened the blinds? Or maybe they just burned so much still because of the damage done by the contacts. Gradually, I was able to keep them open, and I noticed the sun was nearly in the same position it was in when I went to sleep.Please tell me I’d slept more than an hour.Was Luca still asleep? Afraid of waking him, I carefully turned my head to look over my shoulder.He wasn’t in the bed
VEDAHe wasn’t lying. My room was exactly as I’d left it, all the way down to the crumpled blankets on the bed and my sneakers kicked off in the corner.Grateful to be alone, I took a deep breath and froze. It smelled like Luca in here. Had he been creeping around in my room while I was gone? Looking for what? Too tired to think about it, I just shook my head and went to the closet to find something to sleep in. The sun was coming up, but I was so fucking tired. I needed to sleep. And strangely enough, I felt safe here.As I pulled off my dead sister’s clothes and left them lying in a heap on the bathroom floor, I had to wonder, what was he planning to do with me now? The game was up. Mario knew who I was. Or rather, who I wasn’t. And Luca hadn’t so much as asked me to close my eyes when we drove to his house, which meant I knew the location of the house now. His private sanctuary that, by his own words, not even his own family knew about.What the hell did that mean?Turning on the s
LUCAFor a moment, I couldn’t move. But then I burst from the bed in a flurry of movement. Enzo quickly stepped back out of the way, not in the least concerned about my nakedness. “Where is she?” I asked him. I wanted to ask him if she was alive, but I couldn’t bring myself to say the words.“At Lisa’s.”I froze with my hands on the button of my jeans. “What?”“She’s at Lisa’s. Woke them up banging on the door after she found her way to their house. Apparently, she was dumped near there.”Found their house. That meant she was up and walking on her own. “He just left her there?” It wasn’t lost on me that my brother had found the home of one of my most trusted employees. “Who dropped her off? Did they see anything?”He shook his head. “No.”I picked up my shirt from the floor, unable to look at him as I asked my next question. “Is she all right?”“I just know she’s alive and walking and talking.”That’s all I could really ask for. So why was my gut clenched with the need to see her? Hea