LOGINTEN MONTHS AGOSeconds after we arrived, so did Nero and Enzo. I didn’t understand why he was there with us when he could have been with Serena. However, when we went inside, I understood why. Serena was there.She was in the living room in an oversized hoodie and a box of tissues on the table. She was watching ‘The Notebook’ and her eyes were red like she had just been crying. I felt bad for her, but that was the price you paid when you liked a man in the mafia.His duty to his empire came first before anything else. If Nico decided Nero was going to marry another woman and create more connections, then he would ditch her again and she would be heartbroken all over again. That was no way to live. I didn’t get a chance to be introduced to Serena before Nico grabbed my arm and pulled me away.“My fiance and I need to speak. Excuse us. We are taking back the master bedroom.”He led me to the master bedroom on the second floor. It was in shades of white and gold. I didn’t expect it to
PRESENT DAYMy heart dropped and I felt sick. My head was spinning at a hundred miles per hour. My thoughts were scrambled. Nico DeLuca played me like a fiddle. All that sex, affection, and attention he gave me was because he wanted to keep me unaware of what he had going on. He talked to me about the burner phone but he didn’t mention anything about finding the listening devices I had planted all over his house. They were not supposed to be detectable. But what did I expect when Nic had someone as talented as Luca working for him?I replayed every conversation we had for the past two weeks trying to figure out if there were any signs he knew it was me who planted bugs. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten all about them. I was too busy letting him bend me over to care that he was searching the house for foreign devices.“I thought we hit the jackpot when you married Nico instead of Nero because if we cut the snake by it’s head, the rest of it dies. You were supposed to help me get rev
TEN MONTHS AGOI didn’t know I could have fucked up to that extent. I shouldn’t have gone to that club or I wouldn’t be stuck in a car with Nico while he spoke perfect Italian to someone on the phone. He was driving us to someplace I didn’t know. He was very calm about that situation in a way I never expected him to be. He seemed like he didn’t have a care in the world. He drove with precision and his car smelled just like him.Like smoke, nature, spice, and wealth. I didn’t know what the smell of wealth was but I knew he was exuding it greatly. He kept glancing at me through the corner of his eye. If I weren’t observant, I would have missed it. I fiddled with my fingers wondering where we were going. After we announced we were getting married and greeted all the guests hand-in-hand, he’d put his hand on the small of my back and guided me away. That small gesture made me nervous in a way I shouldn’t have been considering Nic had seen all of me in a way another man would never. He’d
PRESENT DAY Bliss. Nothing but ignorant bliss. I had been living on cloud nine for the past two weeks. I woke up to Nic’s head between my legs, and it always ended with my legs wrapped around his waist while he fucked me in the bathroom under the running water. We had breakfast together like we hadn’t been tearing each other apart for most of the morning; he went to work while I remained home gardening. When he came home, I got on my knees and let him fuck my mouth until he came. I swallowed every drop of his cum, after which he took me to his sex room. He tied me up and ruthlessly fucked me until I could no longer take all of that intensity. I would pass out, and he would clean me up and put me to bed. Then we would repeat the cycle. He would give me days in between the week when I rested. I begged him to fuck me, and he told me I had to heal my light bruises first. And I had a lot of them. My breasts were covered with bite marks, my wrists and ankles with rope marks, and my ass w
PRESENT TENSE“Did you ask her about the bugs?” Luca asked as he looked around my office and scrunched his nose in disgust.He knew what had happened in that office just a few minutes before. I’d tried to open the window to see if it would erase a scent I wanted ingrained in my senses for a lifetime. But the smell of rough sex was still in the air.I was weak when it came to Tallulah DeLuca. All she had to do was bat her eyelashes at me, and I was already falling for the tricks she had up her sleeve. I tried to resist her, but I only lasted a month and a half before I caved.I was even shocked I lasted that long.She was my walking temptation. I never thought there would come a day I would let a woman come close to destroying everything I had worked so hard to build. None of that mattered when it came to Tally.She was made just for me with her tall, lean figure, beautiful blue eyes, blonde hair that almost looked white, and a smile that was bright enough to be the planet’s sun. I lov
TEN MONTHS AGO“You did this on purpose,” Nico accused me as soon as we were outside. At least he was a gentleman enough to drape his coat over me to shield me from New York’s chilly weather.He had looked around to make sure we were alone before he proceeded to accuse me of doing things I never did. I couldn’t help but laugh.“Excuse me? You have got to be fucking kidding me. I never saw your face once, remember? You crept into my life like a sociopath and fucked me at every turn. You were the one who saw my face, and you didn’t know I was your brother’s fiancé.”He had nothing to say. He kept looking at me like he believed if he stared hard enough, I would just disappear. We were both in shock. What were the odds that Nico was the man I wanted to see so badly when I arrived in New York?“You didn’t know I was the daughter of the man whose empire you want to conquer, Nico. You’re not as smart as they say you are. How the fuck did you miss it? Didn’t you investigate the woman marrying







