All Chapters of UNDRESSED BY THE MAFIA LORD: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

And you're holed up in your penthouse playing house with a girl who doesn't belong in our world.""She belongs exactly where I put her," Dimitri said coldly. "Next to me. In my bed. In my life. And anyone who has a problem with that can take it up with me directly.""Including father?""Especially father."Enzo laughed, then immediately regretted it, clutching his ribs. "You're going to start a war over a woman.""No." Dimitri moved to the table, selected a knife....small, sharp, perfectly balanced. "I'm going to start a war over the woman I intend to marry. There's a difference."The word hung in the air between them.Marry.Enzo's eyes widened. "You're not serious.""Deadly serious." Dimitri tested the knife's edge with his thumb. "When the six months are up, I'm asking her. And she'll say yes. And then I'll deal with Isabella, and Antonio, and anyone else who thinks they can dictate who I spend my life with.""The contract with the Russos...""Can burn," Dimitri interrupted. "I nev

"When I was with Enzo tonight, he asked if I'd told you I love you. I said no. He asked why." Dimitri's thumb brushed across her knuckles. "I didn't have a good answer. Because the truth is, I've been in love with you since you were eighteen years old and kissed my cheek like it was nothing. I've been in love with you through seven years of staying away, of keeping my promise to Mike, of watching you marry someone else and pretending it didn't kill me."Eve's eyes filled with tears."I've been in love with you since that night at Sinners when you climbed into my lap and asked me to touch you. I've been in love with you through every denial, every punishment, every moment of watching you transform from a broken woman into a fucking queen." His voice roughened. "And I'm going to be in love with you for the rest of my life, Eve Thorne. Whether you stay with me or walk away. Whether we get our forever or the world burns down around us. You own me, completely and absolutely."The tears spi

"What about the alliance?" she asked, grasping at strategy, at logic, at anything to make this make sense. "Our families control ninety percent of the eastern territories together. If we don't marry, if the arrangement falls apart....""Then we'll find another way to maintain the alliance. A business partnership. Shared territories. Whatever works." Dimitri's expression softened, just slightly. "I'm not your enemy, Isabella. I don't want to hurt you or your family. But I won't marry you. Not now. Not ever.""Because you love her.""Yes."Isabella turned away, walking back to the window, needing distance to process.She'd prepared for many scenarios. Dimitri being difficult. Negotiating new terms. Even outright rejection.But she hadn't prepared for this....for him being so completely, irrevocably in love with someone else that there was no room for negotiation at all."Your father won't accept this," she said finally."I don't need his acceptance.""He'll make it difficult. For you. F

The words hit home. Eve saw it in the flash of anger in Isabella's eyes."You don't know what you're talking about.""Don't I?" Eve leaned forward. "You said you've loved Dimitri since you were nine. But have you ever actually talked to him? Not about business or alliances or strategy, i'm talking about real things. His mother. His nightmares. The birds she taught him to name. The guilt he carries. The way he takes his coffee or the small changes he's made since I came into his life."Isabella said nothing."You don't know him," Eve said gently. "You know the idea of him. The power. The position. But you don't know the man who cried when I told him I loved him. The man who sits awake at three AM watching me sleep like he's afraid I'll disappear. The man who's learning how to love for the first time in his life.""He told you about his mother." Isabella's voice was flat."Everything. About Claire. About what happened. About why he's terrified of loving me.""And yet he does it anyway."

She stepped closer. "Now I'm asking you for one thing. Just one thing. Give me all of you. Stop holding back. Stop protecting me from something I've been begging you for.""It's not about protection," Dimitri said roughly. "It's about.....""What? Making it perfect? Making sure I'm ready?" Eve laughed, and it was edged with frustration. "Dimitri, I've been taking a fourteen-inch replica of your cock for weeks. My body is ready. And emotionally? I told you I love you.You told me you love me. We're ready. The only person who doesn't seem to accept that is you."Dimitri's hands clenched at his sides. "You think I don't want to? You think I don't lie awake every night fighting the urge to roll over and bury myself inside you until you can't remember your own name?""Then why don't you?""Because!" He exploded, the word torn from somewhere deep. "Because the second I do, the second I cross that line, there's no going back Eve. You'll be mine completely. Irrevocably. And everyone who wants