Chapter 2

Alessio

Her lips tasted like chocolate covered  strawberries .Her body gives both heat and sweet sensation .My head spins,I need her and want her all to myself . I pull her up until she crashes into my broad chest, her body twisted against mine. I slide my leg, between hers, apply pressure until her body curves further.

Do as you are told,Pretty face .Break for me and open.I swirl my tongue  across the seam of her lips ,I swoop in to feel her .I am a man who take what I want and use weakness to my advantage.

 I flatten my palm over  her belly, graze my fingers over the core of her. She moans low in her throat, the sound so soft ,I  have missed it, except I have plastered her to me. Every breath of her I had inhale ,the trembling that sweeps me up.She was mine .I tilt my head, deepen the kiss even further. Thrust my tongue inside the spring of her mouth and enjoyed from her . I bring my fingers up to cup her breast and she arches her spine. Pushes her flesh into the hollow of my palm. Her hair slaps against my chin, coils around my neck, binding me to her, while connecting us.

No.I tear my lips from her mouth and she tips up her chin, reaches up, seeking my touch, my essence, what only I can give her.

"Pretty Face ?" I clear my throat.

She peers at mes, pupils blown from the pleasure I’d drawn from her.

"Wanna screw?" I allow my lips to curl in a smirk. Rake my gaze down her flushed cheeks, her heaving chest. "You’re a bit too soft for me , but you’ll do for a quickie."

Her cheeks reddened and her eyes spark a light .There, you are.

"F*ck you."

"Well if  you insist."

She quickly pulled herself from me and I loosen my grip. Not that she will be going anywhere, considering we were trapped here in this car for a little while longer. Why the hell did I crawl in here with her? A temporary loss of sanity, that’s what it was. I’d heard her beat her fists against the car and…knew it would attract attention. Didn’t want that. Couldn’t bring her up front so I’d done the logical thing. I’d climbed in.

"Get away from me, you obnoxious freak "

"I’m sure you are  aware that’s not possible, considering." I jerk my chin towards the space around us.

"And who’s fault is that?"

"Yours."

"What?"

"If you hadn’t quoted Shake sphere , you wouldn’t be here."

"Yeah, I know ,you would have kill me." She glowers.

"Right on your first guess." I nod. "Impressive you realized  that."

"So, what’s your plan?"

"Plan?" I raise my eyebrows .

"Yeah , the hell are you planning, transporting me to God knows where? Why didn’t you kill me like you should have?"

"I’m the one asking the questions,bellezza."

"Do you know that you suck in giving me insults in italian?"

I blow out a breath. "You English think a word in any other language is an insult."

"Wasn’t it."

"No."

"Okay then ,tell me what it means ?"

"Now that you ruined ,I don’t think it matters."

"What about what you called me earlier?"

“What I did call you ?”

“You called me Pretty Face”

"You are one of a hell annoying lady . I liked you better with my tongue in your mouth." I lower my head and she arches away. She tugs at my grasp. I release her chin and she faces forward.

"Don’t even dare try to kiss me again."

"You liked it, right?"

"No."

"Don’t lie."

"I am not .

"Wanna try again. I am more than happy to go another round." I allow my lips to curve, "It’s as good a way as any to pass the time."

I coil a strand of her hair around my fingers, bring it to my nose. Lavender and vanilla  with a dash of hot spice

"So, what do you say?"

"Go to hell,you jerk ."

"Been there, and I’m not in a hurry to repeat the experience."

"Do you have a rejoinder for every insult?" She huffs.

"Do you always argue  with your captors?"

"I’ve never been kidnapped before.’

I am not gonna lie but the truth is , she’s not the first I have abducted. She’s the first whose life I am sparing , Why the hell? Why would I do that?I need to take control of this situation. Of whatever it is that stretches between us. Need to snap out of this connection.

"Never been at  loss of words before, huh?" Triumph tinges her tone, and warmth curls in my chest.

My heart begins to thud, my pulse rate ratchets up, and even before the words are out of my mouth, I know I am going to regret it.But fuck that. I am Italian enough to not mess with forces beyond my comprehension. When I had set out this morning to take her life, I haven’t  realized that it would be mine I was forfeiting. Too little, too late. I am helpless, and I have to take the next step. Else we’ll both be left hanging between the edge and a dark place, and to hell with that. I’ll make the decision and be damned. Pay the consequences wit no choices. This is it. It has to be this way. There is no other option.

"I’ve never had to choke a woman into complying before."

"What the hell are you talking about ?" She yells and  whips her head around.I wrap an arm around her neck then grab the bicep of my other arm.She struggles, kicks out, manages to free a leg and sinks her knee into my thigh. Pain laces my nerve endings. Don’t judge me.My tastes have always been at the edge and this... This has pushed them past a point of no return.I manage to slide my other hand behind her head, apply pressure to the sides of her neck and she goes limp.

"Sleep, Pretty Face ."

Her breathing deepens.

"Good girl." I cradle her close, whisper my knuckles over her cheek. "When you awaken, you will have a new start."