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“Are you trying to become a straight-laced citizen?” “I have no ambitions in that regard, no.” Remo shook his head. “First Fabiano, now you. Why’s everyone becoming pussy-whipped?” “Since I’m not getting any pussy, your term is misleading.” “Oh, fuck you,
“I want you in every regard. I want to kiss you, of course. I want to show you pleasure, Kiara.” My pulse galloped with every word. “I want to give you an orgasm with my mouth and my fingers. I want
to taste you everywhere, and I want to … sleep with you.”
“Falling in
love with Nino would be foolish. He can’t return my feelings no matter what they are.”
“She isn’t one of our whores, Savio. She is Nino’s, and you better remember it the next time you open your fucking mouth,”
“There’s nothing dead on it,” Savio said. “We can change that in a heartbeat,” Nino said dryly. “I’m sure there are a couple of limbs you don’t need,” Remo added, exchanging a smirk with Nino.
“I like them too. Better than most humans,” Remo said with a shrug. “Doesn’t mean I don’t eat them.”
“And he can say fuck and whatever else he wants as long as he doesn’t insult you. You are mine, and I won’t have him insult you.”
Nino had tortured
and killed him for me. Now it was my turn to kill the man’s memory.
“You are a Falcone, my wife, and you won’t try to hide. You will hold your head high and show them that they are beneath you. Show them how beautiful you are. Let them stare.”
“Let them remember the sheets. It’s what will happen to anyone who dares to touch you.”
“Don’t let any of those fuckers put you down because your father was a traitor. Don’t let them put you down for any other shit either. You are a Falcone now. If one of them doesn’t show respect, tell me or Nino and we’ll handle them.”
“He taught me my worth.”
“I am happy for you, it’s just so hard to believe that the Falcones treat you right.”
“Kiara and I have plans for tonight, so I don’t think she will poison me just yet. Am I right?” Heat blasted my cheeks.
“TMI, Nino,” Adamo muttered. “TLI if you ask me,” Savio said with a grin.
“As long as you don’t face your fears, you will be weak. He will keep power over you as long as you let him. If you ever stop being a coward, come to me and I will show you how to fight an opponent set on hurting you.”
“I love you,” she whispered, and we both stiffened at the same time. Her breathing hitched against my throat. Love?
I know you can’t return the emotion. I know you don’t feel anything for me, and it’s okay. You are trying to be a good man, even though it’s not in your nature. You are treating me right, you are simulating affection for me, and that’s all right. It’s more than I expected when we married and it’s enough.”
“Don’t simulate love. Everything else, I can deal with, but not love. If you ever tell me you love me, it has to be because you really do love me.”
Could you love someone who didn’t have emotions? Someone who analyzed love as if it were a mathematical problem? It wasn’t a question that needed answering. I knew the answer. I loved Nino, even if he could never love me back.
Love: a game for fools. I wasn’t sure where I’d read the phrase, but I knew it was true.
“You are family. I’m here to protect you.”
“Don’t worry. My brother is invincible.”
because how foolish would I appear if people realized I’d come to love someone incapable of emotion?
“If you get comfortable, you get weak. That happens to many people in positions of power. It’s good to prove to people and to yourself that you are still someone to fear,”
“Nino won’t lose, and he definitely won’t fucking die. Understood?”
“What’s gotten into him?” Savio muttered. Remo didn’t take his eyes off the cage, but his mouth thinned. “I don’t know.”
“I’ve never seen Nino like this, but if you think you can handle him, be my guest.”
“If I fuck you now, it’s going to be against this wall. It’s going to be hard and fast, and nothing like last time. Nothing like you want. Nothing like you need.”
“Will you stop this shit?” he growled. I forced myself to meet his angry gaze. “Keep an eye on my brother. I don’t know what’s gotten into him. Usually, he would analyze the fight like a fucking computer
program right after. That he’s like this is a fucking bad sign.”
I kissed his shoulder blade and uttered in my head the words I’d never say aloud again. I love you.
Whatever had shaped them into ice and fire, it had also forged them together in a way that couldn’t be broken.
Maybe Nino had become the cold flood against
Remo’s raging inferno. Perhaps Remo was the outlet for emotions Nino had locked behind impenetrable walls. I couldn’t and would never...
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“I assumed you’d want to eat with us. Even if you threaten me, I won’t let you go hungry.” His dark eyes assessed my face, and I returned his gaze. Didn’t he always insist I needed to learn to be a Falcone?
“That is a conquest you wouldn’t survive, Stefano. I’d hate to lose my best Romancer, but I’d have to put you down, and you’d fucking thank me for it because Nino would fucking tear you into bite-sized pieces and feed them to you.”
A bird born in captivity will never know the feeling of unbridled freedom the open sky can offer. How can you long for something you have never experienced?
Nino gave me a blank look. “The body still requires a certain calorie intake to keep up its functions.” Remo rolled his eyes. “One of these days, I’m going to lose my shit on you when you sound like a fucking textbook.” Nino cocked his brows at his brother. “You’ve said it countless times. It loses its power if you never act on it.” Remo pulled out his knife and flung it at Nino. I jumped as the knife impaled itself in the armrest beside Nino’s leg. “You, Savio, and Adamo are fucking nuisances.”
“To remind myself that I’m alive.” My brows drew together. “To remember who I am, what I am.”
“What happened to you and Remo to make you the way you are?”
Remo smiled wryly. “Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is the biggest kind of stupidity I can imagine.”
“He can’t feel.”
“I know,” I muttered, tugging at his hold, but his fingers tightened around my wrist. Finally, my anger and despair bubbled over. “Do you think I don’t know that? But I can’t change how I feel! Don’t you think I would change it if I could? But love doesn’t work that way. You will never understand.”
“You are right,” he said in a low voice. “I can’t and I won’t. Why would I wan...
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“I hope one day you will find someone you want so much it burns you up inside, and then we’ll talk when she...
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“Before Leona, I had convinced myself that I wasn’t capable of emotions,”
