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“Because, Elena,” I continued as my hand cupped her entire wet mound. “Nemmeno immagini cosa ho intenzione di farti.”
You cannot even imagine what I am going to do to you.
“I’m going to make you come like this on my hand, and you are going to play for me all the way through your climax,” I ordered. “Because I want to watch you fail. I want to see you lose control just for me.”
“You are breathtaking like this. Not because you are naked, but because you are vulnerable and for a man like me? There is no bigger turn-on.”
“I can’t explain what’s happened inside me,” I cried, clutching at my heart through my chest like I could pry it from between my ribs and show him how it had been altered. “But I’m not the same anymore. I used to think I knew who I was, but I never felt like this before.”
“Like what?”
“So alive I...
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I nodded curtly, not ready to examine the wound to my chest. Not the insignificant bullet hole I’d have Frankie stitch up on the plane, but the gaping hole in my rib cage where Elena Lombardi ripped out my heart to keep it for her own.
The smile that spread across her face dazzled me as we moved toward each other, faster and faster. Then she was right in front of me. Elena Lombardi. And all I could think was mine.
“I won’t go back to my life before this,” she murmured into my chest as she hugged me. “Don’t leave me here in this purgatory where nothing makes sense anymore except you.”
“I have too much of you in my heart to say no,” I admitted gruffly, pulling her head back by the hair so I could see her face.
“Ti amo,” she told me as if the words couldn’t bear to go unspoken. “I love you, and I’m going with you.”
I laughed. I laughed because we were both crazy and mad and hopelessly lost in this new and wild thing between us, and I didn’t give a damn about the consequences.
“They’re all afraid of you, and they all hate me. What a pair we make. Two villains in love. I’m not afraid of anything that will come at us, Dante. I just don’t want to be without you.”
“Then you won’t,” I promised. And I kissed her.
