King of Greed (Kings of Sin, #3)

by Ana Huang

“Show me what you want.”

“Does tasting me get you off?”

“Fuck, yes.”

“I’ll never get enough of you. I would fucking drown in you if you’d let me.”

“Do I give you what you need, amor?”

A lie fell from my lips. “No.”

Dominic still owned me.

The house was a torturous limbo of memories. It killed me to stay, and it killed me to leave.

“If you ever see me this torn up over a woman, shoot me,” he said after my fifth shot. “It’s pathetic.”

I didn’t need him, but I missed him so desperately it felt like I did.

“The difference is, back then, I thought I had nothing to lose. Now, I realize I have everything to lose.”

“You.”

At the end of the day, I had to do what was best for me and go with my gut, and my gut told me that no matter how many people I dated or how far I tried to run, I couldn’t outrun my heart.

“One last chance.”

“Please don’t break m...

“I wo...

“I lost you once, and I never want to lose you again.”

Dominic and I didn’t work the first time, but sometimes, the strongest things were those that had been broken and healed.

I didn’t mind being the villain if it meant protecting the people I loved.

I’d been lying in bed one lazy Saturday morning, watching Alessandra yawn and snuggle into my chest, when I finally put a name on the feeling. Contentment. No matter how much money I lost or made in a single day, I was, at my core, happy because I had everything I needed in front of me.

This was it. She was it.

“What happens when we reach one thousand?”

“Then I’ll start the countdown again, and again, for the rest of our lives. Because that’s how long I want to spend with you.”

“Alessandra, you are the most important thing to me. Being your husband will always be my greatest honor and accomplishment. No victory will ever taste as sweet as the press of your lips against mine. I lost you, and I don’t deserve you.”

“But I vow to always hear you over the sound of my ambition. I will always be curious about you. You’ve shown me the value of always learning, growing, and caring, and I’ve never loved you more than in this moment. Watching you choose yourself when I didn’t will always prove as a reminder to me of your incredible strength and what a privilege it is to call you mine. I want to spend the rest of my nights with you. I want to spend the next decade working to be the man you always deserved. I want my greed to be for your love, your laughter, and our life together. I can’t bear to be parted from you. Please, Ále, will you be my wife?”

“Yes,” she sobbed. “Yes, I’ll be your wife.”

I would spend forever becoming the man she always believed me to be.

My stomach fluttered when he whisked two glasses of champagne off a passing server’s tray and handed one to me. This was it.

“No, thanks.”

“Are you sure? You haven’t had a drin...

“I’m ...

“In fact, I won’t be drinking alcohol for the nex...

“Are you…”

“I’m pregnant.”

Happiness had found me again.

I’d found myself, and Dominic had found joy in things outside his relentless ambition. Never in our life together did I think I would see him without the lines of worry that everything would disappear but rather with lines around his eyes from laughter. When his gaze met mine on that rooftop, I knew I would always be his. Most importantly, I knew he would always be mine. He would miss a dinner here and there, but he would always come home with a desire for our marriage. He would never again be the man who didn’t show his care and curiosity. I would never again be the wife who pretended. We were honest and open, and we truly loved each other more today than the day we’d married for the first time. Our hearts had scars that would never go away, but they also glowed and grew with every new day that came to us.