All Chapters of Forbidden Pleasure: Sex, Secrets & Scandal: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

MAKING OUT IN THE KITCHENLeona’s POVI was still staring at myself in the mirror.Older now. Stronger, maybe. But still that girl, somewhere inside. The one who watched everything fall apart and had to pretend she was okay.But I wasn’t a helpless kid anymore.I looked at the necklace again. The new chain. The locket. The black diamond Marco gave me — heavy and cold but shining.My phone buzzed next to me, snapping me out of it.Marco: "I'm making dinner. You want anything?"I stared at the screen for a second before typing back.Me: "It depends. What are you making?"It took maybe thirty seconds for him to respond.Marco: "Come find out."I smiled a little.I didn’t even notice it at first till I glanced at myself in the mirror by my desk. My eyes still looked kinda puffy—crying does that, I guess—but my lips had curved up anyway. Just a little.I got up slow, kinda dragging my feet across the floor. My uniform felt stiff an

His father's intertuptonLeona’s povI still stood there on the edge of the staircase, Marco’s singlet hanging off my shoulder, still feeling warm all over. It was some awkward silence that really boiled around us now.My heart hadn’t slowed since that kiss. Since his hands were on me. Since we were really having sex in this living room.But all of that had vanished the second his father walked in. Don Valerio.The man who made even the air in the living room feel sharp.He hadn’t said much yet, but his eyes had already said too much. The kind of eyes that watched to study, to control. They were nothing like Marco’s.And now, I couldn’t stop glancing between them—Marco standing stiff, jaw clenched, and his father taking slow, relaxed steps, as if he hadn’t just walked in on something personal.I noticed Marco hadn’t looked at me once since his father came in.Valerio took another step toward me, ignoring Marco completely. His eyes dropped to the singlet I wore—clearly his son’s. He gr

PROTECTING HERMarco povI came harder than I meant to. Like my whole damn body gave out. One second I was buried deep in her, and the next, I was falling—breathing like I’d run five miles uphill, heart slamming against my ribs like it wanted to get the hell out.And for a second, just one insane, quiet second, I let myself stay there.She was warm. Still. Soft in a way I didn't think I deserved. Her breath hitched against my neck, fingers curling around my back like she didn't wanna let go. And I... Fuck, I didn’t want to move either.But I had to.I rolled off her slowly, like if I moved too fast I’d ruin something I couldn’t fix. My chest still felt tight. Not from the sex—no, it was something else. Something heavier. I sat up on the edge of the bed, elbows on my knees, eyes staring at the damn floor like it had answers.What the fuck am I doing?Behind me, Leona shifted. The sheets rustled, and I felt her eyes. Not just looking. Searching. Like s

WHO AM I LIVING WITH Leona’s povI texted Marco when the driver picked me from school.Me: hey… can we talk when you get back? Please.After five mins, he replied:Marco: I’ll be late tonight, kitten. Don’t wait up.I just locked my phone and watched the traffic blur past the window. My head felt heavy.When I got home, the main door was already open. I stepped in and one of the guards was at the hallway, watching me. I looked away and walked past him. My steps echoed too loud in the house.The whole house was clean and silent as usual. Dining table looked untouched. Marco didn’t eat. Or maybe he did and cleaned up after? Doesn’t matter.The chef wasn’t around. I went to the fridge and I heated some leftover pasta. I didn’t even feel like eating and sat alone in the dining room. The walls were quiet. Like they were listening instead of echoing.I poked the food around the plate and my mind drifted, again, back to the way Marco’s father had l

MESSY INVITATION Leona POV It was late in the afternoon; they had just rung bell for closing. I was tired anyways, after the long hours of teaching and students’ noises, I needed my quiet area to myself, I just wanted to go home and sleep. I quickly packed my school bag as I made my way to the garage. Noise cluttered in my head like a storm when I stepped into the garage, it was the honking of cars, noises everywhere. Immediately rain started falling, I was just steps closer to getting to where Marco driver was waiting, a man with an umbrella blocked me, covering my front, when I looked up to see who it was, I couldn’t recognize him. He had a black shady glass on, in a tailored black suit. My heart thumped hard, I quickly lifted my gaze away from him as I tried to pretend that someone wasn’t in front of me as I turned the other way to leave, walking past a couple of kids. But he immediately came to my front again, l