"I want in, I did all the ground work it's only fair." I opened my mouth to blast her, no fucking way, if she thought I was kidding she could think again. I don't care what she'd gotten up to before she became mine, but there was no way I was standing back and letting her put herself in harm's way ever again though. Ma would have a coronary if she heard about this shit. She liked to pretend that I was just a nightclub owner; I like to keep it that way. "Be reasonable Arianna, you never wanted any part of the life remember and this thing is big, this could mean all out war. Flanagan's right, you need to stay out of this." "Dead man talking. No." She actually held her palm up to him. Damn, she even gives Roberto Rossi shit, this did not bode well for me, she was gonna run circles around my ass for sure. Shit, I am so fucked. Right now I have to find a diplomatic way to get her to pull out. She had that mutinous look on her face which meant we would be here all ni

I'd decided, my turf, my woman my hit. My guest will just have to take a back seat, it's not like I could move into their territory and make a hit. Besides I owed the Staccos, they'd been fucking with me for way too long. The son was still hiding somewhere but I had a bead on the father, one's good enough for now. I had no doubt that if I hit the father the son would come out of hiding. Him I wanted to spend some time with, marry my girl indeed. The fuck, what he'd planned amounted to rape. He was going to force my Ari, like fuck. I'm gonna enjoy fucking him up. "Carmine Stacco is holed up in a cabin in the forest two hours outside of town, no word yet on where his spawn is but I'm sure when news of his father's demise reaches him we'll flush him out." I imparted that info while we rode down in the elevator, everyone had their game face on now; everything else was forgotten as my detail fell in behind me when we reached the ground floor.

What the fuck? "Mouth...how the fuck...ma?" What the fuck was going on around here? I walked through the door gearing up my nuts for the shit storm that was about to come, only to find that I'd been thwarted again. "Seriously, are you fucking kidding me?" "Shane Patrick Flanagan you watch your mouth." My mother scolded me as she put what looked like a bowl of mashed potatoes on the table. My focus was on Mouth who had yet to say a word or even acknowledge my presence. My two sisters came from the kitchen with more food in their hands while I looked around like I was in the twilight zone. "How did you get out?" "She called me." "She called you, how did she do that?" "Well actually she texted me and told me what you had done, shame on you, I thought I raised my son to treat a lady better than that." "Ma...." "Don't you ma me, you're lucky I don't let her dismember you as she's been threatening to do for th

Sucker, I'm glad his mom had let slip how much he hated tears, now I had him just where I wanted him, I knew the silent treatment wouldn't work for too long on his hard headed ass, the man had Alpha male stamped all over his shit, but there's always more than one way to skin a cat, now I had him in the palm of my hands, oh the possibilities. I had to control my grin before I could answer him, couldn't give myself away had to make him sweat the little shit. "I don't know that there's anything you can do, you made me look stupid in front your boys and my uncle and dad." I gave a little sullen shrug for effect. You should see his face, if he could kick his own ass in that moment he would've. Meanwhile the tears are still flowing, hehehe. "Come on now baby, stop crying you're fucking killing me here, whatever you want me to do I'll do it." I let him hug me close, after all I loved his hugs and the sex, sweet merciful heavens, that shit was hot, maybe

I awakened to darkness, fuck; Mouth wore my ass out, shit. After that second time she'd sucked me back to readiness and then ridden me like nobody's business. The way she moved her hips and ass ...she fucking owned my cock. I reached for her next to me, empty, cold sheets. Aw shit, I jumped from the bed and went in search of her but the stillness of the apartment already told me all I needed to know. There was no one here but me. I tamped down the fear and lead with anger. If I got scared people might get hurt unnecessarily, it was better to hold on to anger. I called downstairs and learned that she'd been gone for more than an hour; Taylor had been on ice for the last three, he could wait. I called the club and was told she'd never shown there, that's when fear kicked in. I called every last one of my men and flooded the city looking for her. She'd left on her own I was sure of that, but where the fuck was she? *** ARIANNA ***