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Her teeth tugged at her bottom lip, and she averted her gaze. “I don’t want you to make it a big deal.” “Won’t.” Depends. “Promise you won’t do anything.” “Promise.” Lie.
I ran my thumb down the indention in her chin. “Which hand did he use?” Her gaze widened. “No,” she breathed. “You promised!”
I wanted her sister. In my bed. Against the wall. On her knees.
“I swear to God, Elena, if I find out you’ve let some man touch you, I will deliver his hands to you in a box.” I swallowed. “And I do not. Fucking. Bluff.” He slammed the door behind him.
I wanted to fuck her and ruin her for anyone else. I wanted to crush her wings and then put them back together again so she’d become dependent on me. I wanted her to need me. That dark, possessive, and dangerous feeling crawled through me every time she crossed my path. Elena Abelli was my vice, and fuck if I’d let it kill me.
“Because you’ll fall in love with her,” she said. “And she won’t love you back.”
My pulse leapt into my throat as the back of Manuel’s hand came toward my face. I flinched, expecting the blow. When only a brush of air touched my cheek, I opened my eyes to see Nicolas’s hand wrapped around my uncle’s wrist. “Hit a woman in front of me and you won’t be alive to do it again,” Nico growled.
“I said I’ll never hurt you, Elena, but if I find out you’ve touched another man, there is nothing in this world that could save him.”
“Tell me,” Sebastian said, “why did you do it?” A heavy silence took over, and my chest tightened at Nico’s cavalier tone. “He had something I wanted.”
And I had a bad, bad feeling that if this girl used the word please, I would give her anything she wanted.
Bu-bum. Bu-bum. Bu-bum. His heartbeats raced for me.
I laughed. “I don’t think many Abellis do.” “I do,” she whispered. Fuck. “Yeah?” “Yeah.”
I would make this girl want me, need me, love me, because fuck if I was going it alone.
I would burn the world for him. He was King of the Cosa Nostra. And he was all mine.
“You poor thing, you. Looks like you’re stuck with him for good. Ace might be a cheat at heart, but he always does exactly what he says he’s going to do.”
Whiskey and flame. Sleepless nights. Tattooed skin, white t-shirts, and rough hands. Love and lust and happiness. He was everything.
“You’re beautiful, baby.”
