NATASHA We waited outside for quite a while. Ten minutes? Fifteen? Perhaps half an hour. Either way, I was so close to losing my shit and bailing. It was hard to know whom to trust, even among your people. What if Luca trusted this Luigi ma, but Luigi had sworn fealty to Hell? The man literally lived and worked in the Sole Dorato. If he was caught sniffing around, his life was over. “Quit looking like you swallowed a lemon, Nat,” Olivia grumbled, and I blinked, barely believing what I had just heard. What on earth? Has something happened to stiff and Stoic Natasha? “What? Why are you staring at me like that?” “What did you just call me?” I asked, chuckling when she blushed slightly and diverted her gaze away from mine. “Natasha seems like a handful to call. Nat was short and better,” she said quietly, her voice barely audible. “Isn't that cute?” I teased. If she was drafting up nicknames for me, then it could only mean one thing - the cold Oliv
NATASHA “I'll place a call to the human resource manager of the hotel,” Luigi informed us. “He's a friend, but that does not mean he can be trusted. “ Olivia and I nodded at his words. It was best not to think we should count on anyone. Trust was a double-edged sword. It could very well be our end. I watched him speak as he continued on and on about the dos and don'ts of the hotel. “Answer all their questions without hesitation,” he urged. “A prolonged pause can only mean you have something to hide. And the minute the mafia suspects you, they'll dig further into your records and, well, shit could happen. “ “Noted,” I mumbled, making mental notes. “I'm guessing with how tight they are with whomever they employ and all, it'll be quite hard to secure a spot, wouldn't it?” “Of course not,” Olivia disputed. “Our entire mission depends on us getting into Sole Dorato.”Luigi sighed and shook his head. “I did promise Luca that I would try to get y
NATASHA “Ah, come on,” I told her, closing the door behind me. “I had expected worse.”The room wasn't too small, but it wasn't exactly a bug either. There were two students sized beds on either side of the room. A closet adjoined the rooms, containing four maid uniforms. There was a window, but it was so high up, it would seem impossible to climb through. “They really do not want their maids spilling secrets about them,” Olivia said, eyeing the window. “True,” I responded, making my way to a bed and flopped on it. The mattress was surprisingly soft, and my eyes closed tiredly. “Think I could manage a nap?” “I'm pretty sure he said something about the head maid coming,” Olivia replied, and I groaned. I needed to sleep. Hell, even if it was just for an hour. I felt so damned tired. Flashes of the events of the past twenty-four hours ran through my mind. The meeting with Luigi lasted almost all night. We needed to iron a lot of things out. I wou
NATASHA I turned around to see another maid, a petite, pretty thing with huge gray eyes and fine black hair tied in a ponytail. She had a basket of towels in her hands and smiled rather prettily at me. “Yeah,” I laughed lightly. “It's pretty obvious, yeah?” She chuckled too. It was soft and cute, and it made me wonder what the hell she was doing here. She couldn't be older than Alisa and looked every bit as innocent as her, too. Why on earth was someone like her in a place like this? Why was she here? “Yeah, it is,” she replied. “I'm Isabella, you can call me Bella,” “Natasha,” I told her simply. “Do you by any chance know where rooms thirty-five to forty are? I'm supposed to clean them, and if we're being quite honest, Agatha is terrifying.”Isabella chuckled. “Oh, she's always like that at first. She tried to instill discipline and all that. But if you're pretty humble, she can be the sweetest human,” I glanced at where Agatha had disappeare
LORENZO “You!” No fucking way. I stood in the bedroom of my damned hotel, staring at the vision before me. Had I hit my head and passed out or some shit? Was I high? I had sworn off drugs for years now, so I highly doubted that. Unless Alejandro had messed with me again and shoved some coke in my tea or something. No, he wouldn't do that. The last time he did, I hung him out to dry on my balcony with only a piece of cloth covering his balls. So why on earth was I seeing my naughty vixen standing right in front of me, dressed in a sexy maid outfit, looking so darned ripe for the taking? I had better not be hallucinating, or I really was going to lose my fucking head. I hadn't seen her in weeks! Ever since that night at the club in New York, I had ached and pinned for her like a damned bastard. I had ached to see those fierce eyes glare at me the way they did right now, stoking a fire in my belly. I could feel my cock straining against the tow
Natasha's povShame could not begin to describe how I felt in that moment. The acute awareness of my body's reaction to his advances made things even ten times worse. Without looking back I ran out of his hotel room, feeling stupid and at the same time moronic for letting him talk me into kissing him.I heard him call out my name as I slammed the door behind me but I paid him zero attention. I wanted to be as far away from him as possible.My legs carried me without the knowledge of my brain straight back to my room on the ground floor. It was only when I came face to face with my room door, I realized that I had even left the top floor.I inserted my key into the lock and twisted it to open the door.I entered the room and closed the door behind me and slid down to the ground, my back against the door frame, glad that I was finally in the comfort of my own space, well temporary space.Now alone, the memory of what I had almost done assaulted me like an abusive parent and I shuddered a
Lorenzo's pov.As expected the guys were already seated when I arrived at the bar fifteen minutes later and had probably taken a round of drinks judging by the empty whiskey glasses on the table. Normally I'd be annoyed by this but I had been a full thirty minutes late due to a beautiful unforeseen circumstance that had miraculously found its way in my room. When I saw the beautiful long haired girl in my room wearing a maid outfit that should be crime, I had instantly gotten hard.I had not expected to see her again after that night but damn was I not ecstatic that I had and in my room no less.I had to spend a good fifteen minutes with a hired hooker to get that pent up sexual tension she'd inspired, go.It had been a quick fuck but it had been needed and the whole time, I had imagined that she was the one taking my dick.I walked up to my men who were laughing at something Vincent was saying. He was animatedly explaining something to them and his story must be thrilling because th
Natasha's pov.I walked down the stairs the next day to clean up the rooms allotted to me feeling incredibly tired. I didn't get much sleep last night, how could I have ? when the mystery man from the bar kept haunting my dreams, well, not haunting perse, he was mostly trying to seduce me but that was considered haunting in my books. I didn't even like the dude, considering how obnoxious and rude he is.The only time I had gotten any sleep was around 5am to 7am which Wasn't nearly enough time for the previous day I had.I had woken up and found that Olivia had left before me which was great because I didn't have to give her an explanation as to why I was so cranky this morning.."Hi Natasha." A maid walking up the stairs waved at me. *Hello." I smiled back at her despite how tired I felt and how much I'd prefer to do without human interaction."I'm late aren't I?" I asked her when she got closer to me and she shook her head."Just a few minutes, if you hurry you'll get there bef