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“I do,” he exhales.
She turns, a glowing smile plastered across her face, and my body fills with a warm excitement where I expected to feel disappointment. If my loss means she’s happy, I’ll concede it.
I want to run my fingers over those beautiful lips and teach her mouth how to say it over and over again, without fail.
Interesting. So he does know how to get his hands dirty. How would those dirty hands feel on my skin? Hold up. My game must be off if the first thought I have about him doing a good deed is feel me up, you rich, sexy trash man.
Or better yet, I’ll buy the boat and name it after Luca Navarro, just to sink it.
revealing a delicate chain resting on his collarbones.
sandy-beige linen,
“You’re insufferable.” “And yet we still stand here, suffering.” His hands slide into his trousers as he gives me a boyish shrug.
What impresses you, Avery? Because I would do it in an instant, over and over.
I pull the business cards out of my glass and count eight. Atta girl.
“A Paloma and a glass of champagne, please.”
Cariño
I can’t wait to see what else she will accomplish during her time here.
I’m a fucking jerk. I couldn’t just say hello?
Instead, I say, “Only when it comes to you.”
Luca unbuttons the cuffs of his shirt and neatly rolls the sleeves up to his elbows, displaying his muscular forearms corded with thick veins. It’s the most intoxicating yet simple motion, and I clench my jaw.
“I like this song,” I manage to say. “I picked it out just for you.”
“It could be like this all the time, Ave.” he breathes into my neck, and I smile at the words. The way he says my favorite version of my name.
“For Joanna to use this as another reason I don’t belong at ORO?” “What did she say to you?” An icy coolness now radiates from him.
“Tell me what happened with her.” Luca’s voice is sterner than I’ve ever heard it before.
He gives me a kind smile. I’ve been receiving a lot of those since Plastech joined the office, and it’s been a welcome gesture.
I ran up the fare until her beautiful face appeared in the window.
Robert, who typically avoids all confrontation, designed a digital version of Joanna so that I could throw wads of virtual paper at her in a game titled Ave Destroyer. I love it.
“Let me feed you.”
“Es mi futura novia.”
Okay, it’s official I want to be carried everywhere.
“You like big things, Avery?” “Yes.” Wait. Did I say that out loud?
“Our games, competitions, bets,” Luca explains. “These excuses we’ve fabricated to be close to each other.”
“Ave,” he repeats, savoring the name in his mouth as though it’s candy melting on his tongue.
“I’ve been quite harsh at times, haven’t I?” I hide in his chest. “If I can put it behind me, so can you, Ave.” “Alright, let’s call it water under the bridge.”
“I would walk all of New York with you, Ave.”
I bend down to grab them. When I stand, I leave a trail of soft kisses up her body. Finally, I reach her mouth and look down at my goddess drenched from the thundering summer rain.
“You want me to make it hurt less, cariño?”
“I should take this home with me. It has some very creative uses for a showerhead I’ll need to test out.”
This is fucking awful.
“He’s out of town. But if you want, we can get dinner with him next week.”
Luca unwraps one of the packages I didn’t have a chance to open, revealing a shiny pair of brand-new white running shoes that match the ones he wears, in my size.
“Is this what it’s going to be like with you? A temper that needs constant taming?”
“If that’s how you like to store your things.” Luca has long abandoned the folding. Instead, he stands there, watching my every move. “Then yes.”
Avery continues to wreak havoc on her side of the closet,
eres mía.”
Instead, I breathe her in and let the wetness between her legs grind into my thigh.
“Luca.” She keeps fighting her release, but I’m determined to get her there. “I can’t.” I climb up her body and lace the hand working her breasts into her hair, bringing her forehead to mine. “I bet you can.”
“Are you ready for me, my girl?”
His glazed eyes return to mine. “Say my name, Ave. I love it when you say my name.” “Luca,” I moan. “Just like that.” His voice rumbles through me.
“Do you want me to fill this tight, pretty cunt with my cum, sweet girl?”
“You and me, Ave, is so much better than you versus me.”
and I bring the spatula down on the counter in a smack.
We both have worked our entire lives trying to fulfill these expectations of ourselves. But it’s okay to bring someone along for the ride—that’s how we found each other.”
She knows I’m already searching for a way out of the commitment I want to make to him.
