LOGINJUNEWe finished dinner slowly after that, talking about everything and nothing. He told me ridiculous stories about Enzo that made me laugh so hard I nearly choked on wine. I told him Maya would absolutely blackmail me if she found out I had had sex in a car before my actual date even started. He looked entirely too pleased about that fact.But as the night deepened, I noticed something else.Dante was growing quieter again, not distant this time… intent.The air between us changed, turned heavier and charged, the kind of shift you could feel against your skin.I set down my glass. “You’re doing it again.”His gaze slid to mine.“This time,” I said slowly, “it looks less like thinking and more like plotting.”The corner of his mouth lifted. “That obvious?”“A little.”He stood and I followed the movement with my eyes, pulse already beginning to misbehave for no reason other than the way he was looking at me, then he came around the table and stopped beside my chair.“Is it okay that
JUNE He led me onto the yacht with a hand at the small of my back, steady and warm. The inside was even more beautiful than I had imagined. Soft lighting. Polished wood. Cream furniture that looked too expensive to touch. A dining table set near wide glass windows overlooking the water, candles already lit and flickering against the dark.It was elegant without trying too hard. Romantic without being tacky.Very Dante, apparently.I turned slowly, taking it all in. “This is insane.”He moved behind me, close enough that I could feel his heat against my back. “Do you like it?”I looked over my shoulder at him. “You brought me on a yacht after I practically attacked you in your car.”“You say that like it’s a complaint.”I laughed, and the sound bounced lightly around the room, loosening the last bit of tension still knotted in me.Dinner was already waiting. Steak, roasted vegetables, buttery potatoes, and enough seafood to feed a small village. I had barely sat down before Dante was
JUNEI couldn’t believe I had just done that in Dante’s car, the thought kept looping in my head as he drove, one hand on the steering wheel and the other resting over mine like he had every right to keep me there like my hand belonged beneath his and like I belonged beneath him.My face burned all over again.I turned my head toward the window, pretending to be very interested in the city lights sliding past, but it was pointless. My body was still too aware of him, of the warmth he had left behind and of the way my pulse hadn’t settled since he’d looked at me in that parked car. Like I was a temptation he’d been trying, and failing to survive.God. I had really climbed into his lap and let him…I shut my eyes.“June.” His voice was low, smooth, entirely too calm for a man who had just ruined me in the front seat of his car.I kept my face angled toward the glass. “Don’t.”A smile threaded through his voice, a tease. “Don’t what?”“Don’t say my name like that when I’m trying very har
DANTEJune smiled, slow and wicked. “Then maybe I need a better one.”I kissed her before she could finish whatever dangerous thought she was about to say, this kiss was slower, deeper, less frantic and somehow more intimate.I held her face in both hands while she melted against me, and when she sighed into my mouth, the sound went straight through my chest.I slowly adjusted the angle of the seat then unbuckled my pants and pulled out my hard-on. June picked her lips as she lifted herself up, raised her gown, pulled her panties to the side and slowly lowered herself onto me. “Fuck,” I let out, my voice barely audible as the wetness and warmness of her pussy wrapped around me. This girl will surely be the death of me. She trembled against me, her breath uneven and heavy as her fingers curled around my arms. She whimpered as she slid further down and I was still trying to get a hold of myself when she started moving slowly then picked up the pace, getting a groan out of me. I didn’
DANTE A tiny smile touched the corner of her mouth. “I said I’ve never been fucked in a car before.”My body reacted before my brain caught up. Blood rushed south so hard it was almost painful and I let out a low curse, dragging a hand over my mouth.She couldn’t be serious right? “June…”“And second,” she continued, her voice soft and wicked and entirely too steady, “who said the date had to happen first?”The car went silent. I stared at her, really stared then understanding slammed into me so hard it almost made me laugh.She was offering, not teasing or flirting for the sake of it.My head fell back against the seat for a second and I groaned under my breath. “You’re trying to kill me.”Her eyes sparkled. “I’m not trying.”I let out a sharp laugh, half disbelief and half surrender. “Baby, you are already driving me out of my fucking mind. Be careful.”She went quiet after that, and for a moment I thought maybe she had gotten shy, maybe she was rethinking it, maybe I needed to sav
DANTEI was in trouble and it became painfully obvious the second June stepped out of her house and into the evening light like she had been crafted specifically to ruin men for sport.The dress clung to her in ways that should’ve been illegal. Soft, elegant fabric skimmed over every curve and ended just high enough to make a man start imagining things he had no business imagining while standing in front of her father’s house with flowers in one hand and whatever remained of his self-control in the other.I had seen beautiful women before, plenty of them but none of them had ever made my body lock up the way June did, none of them had ever made my chest feel tight and my blood turn hot at the same time, none of them had ever made me want to drag them into my arms and put a ring on their finger in the same breath and that was the problem.I wasn’t used to wanting things halfway, when I wanted something, I took it, protected it and kept it. June was becoming dangerously close to all th
DANTEPure undiluted fury boiled in my veins. How could I have been so stupid to give myself away like that?I was not one to be reckless, leave that to Enzo. But me? Never. Not since I learned the art of risk management. But with her, this woman all common sense seemed to leave my body. I clenche
DANTEMy mind thought about June. Thought about every word I’d said to her. About how I wanted her and God knows I do. How I was willing to wait until he could give me her heart.Now, it seemed like a wish.Enzo stepped on the gas, his attention shifting from the road to the rear mirror, our enemie
DANTEAngelo's silence scared me to bits. For the first time in so fucking long, I couldn’t tell what he was up to.I was on edge most of the time. I couldn’t tell if he was watching and I hadn’t caught on yet, or if he knew about June. God I hope it’s the former.I fixed my tie, a habit I had now
JUNEDante and I stared at each other for a long time. Thanks to his presence I was able to have Rick and his family kicked out, as well as Angel discharged from the hospital.They were no longer welcome at Mercy Memorial ever again. Eyes fell on me as they were being pushed out. Some of them were u







