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~Rylee~ Tangled in each other’s arms, that’s how Rain and Ghost found us. “Ugh,” groaned Rain, feigning a gag. “Can’t you wait until we are at least out of this awful place?” she eyed the dead bodies, splatters, and pools of blood on the floor with disgust. Klaus pressed a peck on my lips, pushed himself up, and offered me his hand. I let him pull me up, landing with a grunt in his arms again. He claimed my lips for a hot, wet kiss, not caring if we had an audience. Rain huffed. Ghost stood beside my best friend with a smirk on his lips. “Disgusting maniacs,” Rain murmured under her breath. Klaus finally released me. “Says the girl who had a threesome in a public restroom.” She narrowed her eyes on me. “That was a one time thing!” she said, hearts flying out of her eyes as she coiled an arm around Ghost’s waist. “I am a one-man girl now.” “You better be.” I suppressed a grin, narrowing my eyes. Ghost chuckled, draping an arm over Rain’s shoulder. “Let’s go; the cops are on the
~Klaus~Rebuilding and reorganizing is much more work than putting up a new system. At least in forming a new company or organization, we start from scratch. Cleansing is more brutal than creating.Ghost is back on the job. Ro, Hunter, and he are working on my behalf to review every employee’s background and ties with Kino while Dad took it upon himself to clean our family. The entire mafia organization is next once we’ve finished purging Martinelli holdings and the Martinelli mafia. It will take us time to be able to trust everyone again, but we have to start somewhere.My purpose in life has changed, though. The company and the mafia only come after my wife’s welfare. After what we have been through, I want to pamper her and give her the vacation she deserves, the life she deserves.“The books for Rylee’s library will arrive in two weeks.” I was on a video call with Evan; he’s updating me on their progress in Huntersville.Evan plonked on the outdoor chair in the master’s bedroom. H
~Rylee~I told Klaus it was fine by me if we flew back to New York. Now that he got his job back, he’d be a busy bee again. It would be easier for him to work from the Martinelli Holdings office, but he insisted that staying in Ragusa would be best for my recovery.It is, and I appreciate it, but I also know he has a hidden agenda for keeping me here.Dominguez is still at large, hiding from the law he used to implement. Kino and Leandro’s confession was enough to award him the no one spot on every government agency’s most wanted fugitive list.I can protect myself from him, but there are things in this world I cannot defend myself from. Disappointment is one of them.Klaus and I started with a fake relationship contract, intended to end in a fake marriage, too. A lot has happened since then. We fell in love, had a great time together, had spectacular sexcapades, got married, got shot, and survived Dominguez’s schemes. Yet the one purpose I got tangled with Klaus in the first place ha
~Rylee~Still patting my hair dry, I stepped out of the bathroom, finding Klaus with his laptop above his lap. Eyebrows creased in a frown, his fingers beating the keyboard with finesse.I rounded the bed, eyes trained on him, but he was so engrossed in whatever he was writing that he didn’t even acknowledge my presence.It has been three days since Ghost and Rain visited us. Klaus was so busy that he sometimes skipped meals. He worries about Berenice. The entire family remained at risk, from inside and outside threats. And with Dominguez roaming freely, his little sister remained an easy target for Martinelli’s number one enemy right now.Berenice blatantly declared her displeasure for being a Martinelli. It’s a rather challenging task to protect her when she doesn’t want to accept the security given to her. I heard she tried to escape Kai twice, getting creative with her every attempt.“Found a replacement for Kai?” I asked, hoping to ease away some of the tension over Klaus’s shoul
~Klaus~Rylee faced me with a fire brewing in her eyes, determined to burn me in my seat. The see-through dress flowed smoothly as she bumped her hips side to side, complementing miles of smooth skin underneath. Her nipples were stiff, her body is fucking stunning with all the bruises already healed.My hands clenched painfully tight.Fuck. The things I want to do to her.Weeks of restrained desire and lust for my wife resurfaced as she took three slow steps toward me. Her hands traced her breast, her stomach, skating the length of her toned legs, settling on her knees. She parted her thighs, slowly dropping until her ass and ankles met.Fuck, that pussy looks tasty.The soft light from the bedside table lamp, the slow and warm wind slipping through the open balcony… everything is driving me fucking insane.She closed her knees, still in a sitting position, wiggled her ass, and kneeled facing the side but her gaze lingered with mine. Stretching her arms, her palms meeting the carpet,
~Rylee~“You,” I said, my voice gravelly. “I want you, Klaus.”Klaus roughly spun me around. His long fingers are still clutching my hair tight. He is breathing as hard as I am, lips ghosting mine as he asked, “what about me, huh, gattina?” He pulled my hair back, growling against my neck, nuzzling his nose on its length. I shivered. “Be specific.”I reached up, coiling my hands around his neck, gripping his hair. “I want you inside me. Fuck me.”The heat between my thighs was enough to burn me inside out. This temporary celibacy we were forced to take because of our recovery from Spain, and my unstable emotions made tears pool in my eyes. I blinked it back.“Where?” he asked with a smile in his voice, nibbling my earlobes. “How… Be fucking specific, Rose,” he said, “or I’ll keep you on edge all night.”‘Oh boy,’ his playful tone intensified the throbbing between my legs, feeding my excitement and desire.His lips hovered over mine, but before our lips collided, I snaked my foot on hi
This chapter contains trigger themes. Please proceed with caution.~Rylee~Since I was fifteen, my birthday passed by like a normal day. Rain and Sloan are the only two people who urge me to celebrate the day I was born yearly. I was breathing, adding years into my age, but I was never truly happy with my life.But this year is different.There is a lot I should be grateful for, but waking up alone in bed was not how I wished to start this day.‘Maybe Klaus is busy preparing breakfast for me,’ I thought, getting up from our bed, messy from our coupling the night before. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes as I headed to the bathroom and got ready for the day.I was still humming when I walked out of our walk-in closet, but when I saw the folded paper on the bedside table, weighed down by a single red rose my mood instantly plummeted.~Something came up. Dominguez tried to sneak into the estate last night. I’ll head to the city and talk with Chief Catalano. I had big plans for us today sin
~Rylee~Davide cocked his head, silently commanding me to follow him.Fist clenched tightly, I flanked them. One man led the line. Davide kept a steady two steps behind me and the rest of his men trailed behind him.Ten meters from the creek. That’s the only distance we could cover before the guy leading our pile dropped to the ground, a knife buried in his temple.I dove to the ground, finding cover in the nearest tree trunk. Davide followed me like a magnet to an opposite pole, leaving his men kneeling in the open.“Did you call it in?” Davide growled, voice waving with fear. He cocked his handgun, releasing the safety.“Of course, I called it in.” I rolled my eyes, huffing as I peeked at Davide’s men who were still sitting ducks in the open. ‘Don’t they know the basics of an ambush?’ I thought, looking for any sign of the culprit. “But my husband won’t come with just a knife to save me.”Davide pondered on my statement, huffing as he mimicked my position, peeking into his men.“Tak