“Is Batman my daddy?” my son Jackson pipes up from the back seat. Of course not! But telling him that his father is Asher Giordano, leader of New York’s deadliest mafia empire is out of the question. He found us anyway. “What have you done with Jackson?” I demand. “My son?” Asher asks calmly, looking around my small apartment disdainfully. “The one you’ve been hiding from me and forcing to live in this…pigeonhole?” Our son, not yours. “You’re the one who left me at the alter without as much as a ‘see you later’. If you left me a forwarding address to contact you at, I must have missed it.” Asher regards me coldly. I don’t know this man. The boy I fell in love with was warm, giving and open. This man in front of me is frostier than the arctic with his glacial eyes. “I know you know who I am and what I’m capable of, so don’t try anything stupid, Emmeline. There’s nowhere you can run where I can’t find you.” “Gosh, Asher, that’s like a line straight out of a movie. Have you been practicing delivering it in front of a mirror?”
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Cambridge was nothing more than the place my father threw me to spend the next three months of life. It was where I’d lost everything that shone brightly before my eyes, and compassion was shredded from me. But to deal with everything once more, I should at least enjoy myself in every possible way. I’d booked a suite at the Ritz Carlton, where I was leaning on the bed, entangling my fingers in a woman’s hair, devouring my shaft.
She was teasingly sliding her tongue around my tip. “Mm… you’re perfect.”
I groaned. I pushed her head down as she pressed her lips to cover my entire length. Over the past three hours, I’d bent her over the table and fucked her relentlessly.
It was satisfying, but in the next few days, I’d have to find someone else.
She took me in her mouth again. The pleasure was building up in me; my legs stiffened, and my body was telling me to let go. I slightly pushed her head to move her away, but she didn’t move. She went down deeper and sucked me harder. I scowled and tried to pull her off again, but it was too late. Thick spurts of my cock exploded into her mouth.
She looked at me hungrily as she swallowed every last drop. When she was finally moving away, I sprang up and zipped my pants.
“Shall we have dinner and then go on with a few rounds?”
I raised an eyebrow, confused. “I told you I never fucked a woman twice, but I did agree to sex that’ll make you forget every man who’d ever had your pussy.”
That was how exactly women wanted it to start. A senseless conversation, some sex, and at the end of the day, she would begin to think there was something more. I was done with that.
“Can’t you consider it since we’ve been talking for a few days? Exam week is coming, and I have no time to chat with you.”
Right, yes. I met her on Meet and Greet, an online dating site. Her profile said she was a professor at a university.
“No, thanks.”
“Hmm, why don’t we just tell each other something real? My real name’s Chloe, not Anna. I’m not a professor but an undergraduate from Boston University. I’m not really from Harvard. I drove several hours just to meet you, and I don’t give my real info to strangers.” She smiled sheepishly as if her lies were something to brag about.
“What, you just screw with people, is that it?” I shook my head in disbelief. The fact that she lied about her name and school was a major turn-off. “Are you going to stay here, or do you have another date to screw tonight?”
“How dare you?” She scowled at me, her voice rising.
“Is there something wrong with my question?”
“Wow...” She shook her head. “Someday, you’ll regret doing this.”
“Regret doing what?”
“This. Wasting a woman’s time, trying to look interested, fuck her, and then moving on to the next.”
“I never gave false hopes.”
“One day, you’ll get a taste of your own medicine,” she continued.
“You know what, Chloe, or whatever your name is, I don’t give a fuck what you think about my future.”
Years ago, this was my favorite place. It was where I dreamt, hoped, fell in love, and spent days with the people I trusted. I created my own world with the people I loved, but all of it ended up a broken dream when I discovered the person I loved the most was fucking another man.
I wasn’t a dramatic kind of person—well, I was. I was sentimental, compassionate, and considerate—which I now despised.
Fortunately, I was able to regain half of myself when Dad remarried. My stepmother, Gene, was a bit unapproachable at first. However, she showed me that I could trust someone. And to end this fucking overview of my life, I liked the person I’d become. At least no one would dare get inside me again, see through me, and break my trust.
I’d been looking online for a woman to screw since last year. I found it entertaining and interesting, knowing I could choose whoever I wanted to screw without commitments. I never trusted a woman online—all I wanted was their wet core.
I scrolled through my inbox and checked if I had emails from any women I might be able to meet this weekend.
I deleted the other uninteresting messages, especially fake profiles. Then, another email popped up. The message was from Ericka and the only email I kept in my inbox for some compelling reason. She was twenty-eight, a Harvard graduate, working in an IT company in Cambridge. We’d been sending senseless emails for three months. She was fun to talk to, and she was sexy as fuck when she started the dirty talk.
I opened her message.
Subject: I need help
I need help with deleting your relentless messages. What is this all about? There are tons of women to find in this app, and you’re supposed to be with one because it’s Saturday, and yet here you are, interrupting me in the middle of my meditation. I need to loosen up since I’m supposed to finish my new Esri ArcGIS API-based project, but I’ve hardly started, and your messages keep popping on my screen.
Ericka
Subject: Re: I need help
Well, I was waiting for you to finally open your account to tell you that I’m in Cambridge right now, just a few minutes away from you. Maybe this is the right time to finally show up. You’ve been teasing me for three months with your smart mouth.
Now, will you tell me where you are so we can talk face-to-face?
Jax
Subject: Re: Re: I need help
Well, Jax, I already told you I’m sharing a room with someone. There’s no chance we could meet. However, I don’t plan on revealing my face even if I'm alone. It’s against my rules. I don’t meet men from online.
Ericka
Damn it. I tossed the phone on the bed. We met through another app, Pro-Express Chat, founded at Harvard. It was a simple social networking application that allowed the user to chat anonymously. No profile pictures, feeds, comment boxes, or even blogs. Nothing. Just an inbox and a few details such as name and age, gender, relationship status, and occupation.
Every user must be a professional and a graduate of Harvard. Additionally, you must be invited by the admins to register. Either you were a doctor, professor, architect, artist, or CEO (like me). I never wanted to try the app, but since I don’t mix any of my personal shit anymore, only interested in hard sex, I gave it a try.
The app was intended for professional chat only, but screw the rules. My one protocol was to get their personal number to call them.
And I had Ericka’s number.
“Why don’t you just give me your address and real name? I’m tired of just talking to you over the phone.”
She laughed deliciously. I just liked hearing her voice. “We’ll never meet. It’s impossible. Besides, I’m busy.”
“I don’t care about your excuses. Would you like to know my address and my name? I just moved in.”
“I don’t know why you’re in Cambridge right now, but I’m not interested. I can’t lose a friend when all you ever want is one night. You’re going to throw me away, just like the others.”
“I’m sure it won’t be just one night for us,” I admitted. “I can make an exception since you’ve earned my trust.”
“Oh, really? This should be good.”
“Yes, so what is it? Tell me. I’ll be willing to come and get you.”
“I don’t think so. Hey, I need to go, Jax.”
“Wait! Okay. I’m giving you a week. If you don’t want to meet up, I’m done talking with you.”
She chuckled. “I’m sure you won’t do that.”
“I am sure that I would.”
“No, you won’t.”
“Why not?”
“Because you like the sound of my voice.”
Yes, I liked the sounds she made whenever she begged me to make her come on the phone. She could make me hard just by listening to her voice alone.
“I’m pretty sure I like the sound of you moaning.” I sighed. “Look, I can’t continue our friendship like this. I need to see you. One week, Ericka.”
“I can’t. I’m going to New York to see my parents this week. Did you forget? It’s been a long time since I last saw my mother.”
“That’s good, then. I’ll put New York on my schedule this week, and then I’ll meet you. I’ll take you to New York.”
Silence.
“Ericka?”
“What? I don’t know. I can’t promise.”
“Listen to me very carefully. I’m very good at tracking people. I could find anyone in a blink, and the only reason I’m not doing it yet is that I respect that you’re not ready. But this isn’t going anywhere. I need to be buried inside you. I would like to hear you scream my name. My real name when I devour every inch of you. If you don’t agree, I’m going to find you.”
I heard her breath skip. “Don’t you think that’s illegal?”
“I will take every risk.”
“Jax,” she called. “Okay, but not this week. Give me two weeks. Please? This week is a bad time.”
“Done. Fourteen days and you will tell me your address. Fourteen fucking days, Ericka, or we’re done.”
“Okay! Okay! Stop intimidating me.”
“Good. That’s good, then, Ericka. Good night.”
SebastianThe family has settled into new evening routines.Jackson has his bath with Asher while Emmeline naps on the couch, hand resting protectively on her belly.Caterina’s still here at Emmeline’s insistence, and can usually be found reading in the garden.I’m in my office, going through the files I've been compiling for my new FBI role.The corruption case we've built against Morrison is just the tip of the iceberg.The more I dig, the more I find evidence of international connections, money laundering operations that span continents, political corruption that reaches levels I've never imagined.My phone buzzes with a text from my new FBI contact.Can you come in tomorrow? We've discovered something about the Vescari family that changes everything.I stare at the message, ice forming in my veins.The Vescari family is supposed to be finished.I close my eyes, feeling the weight of responsibility settle on my shoulders.Just when we think we can have peace, just when Emmeline is
Asher"You're staring," Emmeline says, not looking up from the bruschetta she's preparing with tomatoes from the garden."I'm appreciating," I correct, reaching across to tuck a curl behind her ear. "There's a difference."She looks up then, and the smile she gives me is radiant."Appreciation involves less intensity. You're definitely staring.""Can you blame me? A few months ago, I thought I'd lost you forever. Now you're here, in my favorite place in the world, wearing my ring, and you might be carrying my child again. And this time I’ll be there for all of it."I reach for her hand, intertwining our fingers."Tell me what you're thinking about it. All of it."She considers my question carefully."I'm thinking about Jackson having a sibling. About midnight feedings, and first steps and all the chaos that comes with babies.""And?""And I want all of it. With you."I bring her hand to my lips, kissing her knuckles."I love you. More than I thought it was possible to love anyone.""S
EmmelineI stretch lazily in the massive bed, silk sheets pooling around my waist as I watch Asher move around the roomHe’s already dressed in dark jeans and a white linen shirt that makes his olive skin glow."Buongiorno, mia moglie," he says, turning to catch me watching him.The Italian rolls off his tongue like music, and something in my chest flutters."My wife," I translate, proud of myself for remembering yesterday's lesson."I like the sound of that."He crosses to the bed, leaning down to kiss me thoroughly."You're a quick study. Ready for our tour of the village?""In a minute," I say, pulling him down for another kiss."I'm still adjusting to having you all to myself."The smile he gives me is soft and full of wonder, like he's still amazed by our happiness too."Speaking of..." I reach for my phone on the nightstand."We should call Jackson before we head out. It's almost his bedtime back home."Asher's expression immediately brightens.For all that we're reveling in our
AsherThe hotel suite is bathed in soft candlelight, rose petals scattered across the marble floor leading to the bedroom.I've arranged every detail myself. I want this night to be perfect for Emmeline.I loosen my tie as I watch her through the doorway, standing at the window overlooking the city lights.Her wedding dress catches the glow from the candles, making her look ethereal.My wife. The word still sends a thrill through me."You know," I say, stepping up behind her, "I never thought I'd have this."She leans back against my chest, and I wrap my arms around her waist."What? A hotel suite with an obscene thread count?"I chuckle, pressing a kiss to her temple."A future. A family. Someone who knows everything about me and loves me anyway."She turns in my arms, her fingers threading through my hair as she leans up to kiss me.I deepen it, pouring years of longing and love into the connection between us.She tastes like champagne and wedding cake and promises kept."Help me wi
SebastianThe reception hall glows with warm amber light, and I can’t help but smile as I watch my sister spin in Asher's arms on the dance floor."Uncle Sebastian!" Jackson's voice cuts through my reverie as he tugs on my jacket."It's time for your speech!""Right, little man. Hopefully I won’t embarrass your mama too much."I make my way to the front of the room, accepting the microphone from the DJ.The conversations die down as I tap it gently."Most of you know me," I begin, my voice carrying across the room."I'm Sebastian, the brother who missed five years of Emmeline's life because our justice system isn't always just."A few people in the crowd shift uncomfortably, but I press on.This needs to be said."I spent those years angry. Bitter. Convinced that fairness was a fairy tale we told children." I find Emmeline's eyes across the room.She’s watching me with that expression she wore as a kid when I helped her with homework.Proud and a little worried I might go off script.
EmmelineI wake up on my wedding day to the sound of rain pattering against the windows, and for a moment, panic flutters in my chest.But then I remember what my grandmother used to say about rain on wedding days bringing good luck, and I smile into my pillow.Today I marry Asher Giordano."Mama!" Jackson's voice calls from downstairs, followed by the thunder of little feet on the stairs. "Mama, it's wedding day!"Before I can even sit up properly, my four-year-old hurricane bursts through the door, launching himself onto my bed with the enthusiasm of someone who's been awake for hours."Good morning, my love," I laugh, catching him in a hug."Are you ready for the big day?""I've been ready forever," he declares dramatically. "I already brushed my teeth and everything. Uncle Sebastian made pancakes shaped like wedding rings!""He did not.""He did too! They're a little lumpy, but they taste okay with lots of syrup.""Can I stay with you while you get ready?"Before I can answer, Cat
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