Alessia“What?” I tried to force my voice not to shake as he led me into the brightly lit house and straight up the stairs. The wedding guests followed after but veered to the right. Their laughter was quickly followed by the clink of champagne glasses.“I don’t get to join my party?” I was being intentionally argumentative but with good reason. The longer we stayed out of the bedroom the better. Around people, even if they were his people meant he wouldn’t want the wedding night I knew was coming.Pausing on the step above me, Aiden surveyed me. “We can join them if that’s what you want to do.”Reaching down he ran his fingers down my cheek almost gently but it didn’t last long. Wrapping that giant hand around my throat he yanked me forward. Until our faces were almost touching.He was so close I could smell his breath.“But I’m going to get you out of that dress, Alessia.” His breath wafted over my face. “I’ve waited so long to feel you tremble under me.” His fingers flexed around
Aiden Keeping her trembling hand in the crook of my arm, I risked a glance at her. The lace of her dress flattered every curve she possessed and I couldn’t wait to run my hands over them later. There was no getting away from me now, even if she ran I had enough men dotted around the perimeter of my grounds to know she wouldn’t get far. Not that Alessia would run. She might not care about her own life but she cared desperately for those she loved. She would marry me to keep them safe.And she would smile and tell people , namely her parents that she had eloped with me because she loved me desperately because she wouldn’t want them to be killed.Such a good girl, so sweet and innocent.Well innocent until tonight anyway, after our wedding night there would be nothing innocent left about her and I was counting down the minutes.Just the ceremony to get through and the small intimate dinner I’d arranged for my closest friends and acquaintances to get through first.I’d have forgo the re
AlessiaI woke up groggily , the silky material of my short pj set twisted around my body. The pillow under my hair was wet. And that’s what chased the grogginess away.Why was my pillow wet?When I’d finally fallen asleep after Aiden had left and I’d showered the scent of his touch from my skin my hair had been dry. I didn’t sleep with wet hair. Not ever but that’s exactly how it felt.Groaning, I reached my hand up and ran it through the wet lengths. It felt wrong. Not just wet but also like it was shorter.Not by much but enough that I noticed it. I sat bolt upright, the cool early morning air causing goosebumps to flare to life over my bare arms and legs. Silently I walked towards the full length mirror to stare at myself. I didn’t know what I was going to find but what looked back at me wasn’t what I was expecting.My face was blotchy from tears and there were dark smudges under my swollen red eyes but it was my hair. My beautiful blonde waist length hair that caught my attenti
AidenMy last few words shocked her, she tried to hide it but it was right there, plain as day in the widening of her eyes.I couldn’t help it, I smiled.“Wife?” Her mouth moved but her words were so quiet I barely heard them. Dropping my lips to her ear, I licked at the sensitive lobe before speaking. “Yes.” God she smelt amazing and she tasted even better. I didn’t know what kind of lotion or perfume she had put on her skin but it was sweet and addictive.“Why is this news to you?” I whispered. Being this close to her, with her skin just under my lips and not throwing her down onto her back on that bed so I could have her was testament to my self control. Because that’s exactly what I wanted to do.Take her and own her completely.Alessia didn’t answer but she trembled. The smallest of shudders that was all longing and no fear. Well maybe a little bit of fear, I realised with a rueful smile. She was a clever young woman. Not some brainless airhead. Her parents had kept her sheltere
Alessia His kiss took me by surprise, one second he was shouting into my face to answer him and then the next his lips slanted over mine and his tongue forced its way into my mouth.I tore my mouth away. “What the hell are you doing Aiden?” Swinging back my arm I went to slap him. He caught it easily. Slamming my wrist against the wall behind me and pinning me there.“You left your door unlocked.” He said, a sly smile sliding across his face. “And I told you what would happen if you did that.” Keeping my arm pinned , he closed his other hand around my hip and yanked me towards him. Bumping me into his front I felt the air leave my lungs in a hissing whoosh of air. And the smile on his face grew.“You can’t possibly be serious?” I couldn’t help it, my voice shook. Half because he was pressed so close to me that I could feel him pressing against my stomach like a thick steel rod and half because of what I had just seen.Aiden was dangerous, I had always known there was something about
AlessiaI paced back and forth along the length of the curved floor to ceiling window in my room and waited and the longer I waited the more nervous I became.It was already fully dark and I was getting chilly in the thin strapped lilac satin nightgown I had found in one of the drawers. It was a little big for me, almost like it had been meant for someone else but that couldn’t be right , could it?It still had the tags on it at least. So I knew no one else had worn it before me but that didn’t stop me feeling uneasy about it. Because I was jealous, I reasoned with myself silently. And that wasn’t logical. Aiden was a grown man. He would have had girlfriends before and it wasn’t like I was his girlfriend.Hell I didn’t even know what I was.Apart from kind of desperate. Catching sight of myself in the mirror I paused and grimaced. It wasn’t that I didn’t look good. I did. The pale purple colour suited my complexion. It was the fact that it wasn’t really me.A little too sexy but wasn