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“I’m aware there are rumors floating around about my future wife. Good thing they’re completely unfounded. From now on, anyone who speaks a word of them will lose their tongue. Have I made myself clear, Uncle?”
“Your sister said your father beat her. Did he do the same to you?” Rafaele asks, a strange lilt to his voice.
“You wanted that girl long before she got served to you on a silver platter.”
Do not fucking touch what’s mine. It’s what I said to Ludovico right before I killed him, although Cleo was far from mine when I saw the bastard trying to force himself on her.
Tomorrow, Cleo Garzolo will become Cleo Messero, and there abso-fucking-lutely nothing anyone can do about it.
“What the fuck are you doing?” she asks, sounding panicked. “Don’t you ever smell your food before you taste it?”
The moment Cleo takes on my last name, she becomes mine, and disrespect against her is disrespect against me.
Still, looking at the disapproving faces of my aunts and uncles, I wonder if I’ve underestimated the blowback I’ll receive for taking Cleo as my wife. But is that blowback going to be enough to stop me?
Not a chance in hell.
At least he’s easy to look at. Okay, not just easy to look at. Rafaele is fucking hot. Far better looking than the last guy my father tried to set me up with—Ludovico.
him. A thing to own, just like these jewels. A butterfly he’s got locked in a glass cage. And tomorrow, he’ll break my wings.
“Oops. I warned you I like to spend money.” “You did.” I step closer and wrap my arm around her waist. “I told him whatever my wife wants, she gets.”
“Your mouth is the best thing I’ve ever tasted. But I think I’ll enjoy the taste of your sweet cunt even more.”
“Don’t worry, we’ve got all the time in the world, tesoro mio.”
“I don’t care how people talk to me. Their words don’t affect me.” “They affect me.”
“Sabina’s been with the family for four decades. And he fired her without even thinking it over. Rafe thinks everything over.”
“How do you know the ideal wife in my head looks any different from you?”
“Cleo, when I look at you, I see the entire universe. It took losing you for me to understand that you are everything to me. There might have been a ‘before’ you, but there is no ‘after’. I can’t function without you. I can’t sleep, I can’t think, I can barely fucking breathe. Without you, I exist in a horrible dark place that’s devoid of everything that makes life worth living. Please come back to me. I love you.”
