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A man like Benito couldn’t love, and I had no plans to ever love anyone. That shit was for suckers and dreamers. My dreams had died a long time ago.
“Say I do,” Benito said.
Roll credits
If Benito thought he was getting a meek wife out of me, he’d find out real quick why I’d been tied down for our wedding. I would never be the docile type. I had just as much at stake in our deal as he did. The only difference was he stood at the head, and I was a pawn to be used.
He thought he could put me in the guest room out of sight and out of mind. I thought the fuck not. Benito would think about me every second of every day. I would burrow so deep into the man’s psyche that he would start believing we were one and the same.
Did we remember two different days? That kiss was seared in my brain, but so was the way he’d run off as soon as it was done. Why the hell is he acting so nonchalant about it now?
Because you're being a stubborn prick
“Harlow?” Benito's voice resonated through me, feeding the anger that boiled in the pit of my stomach. “What are you doing here?” He placed the drink down but didn’t untangle himself from the women near him. Fuck, this is pissing me off. I couldn’t even understand why. I just knew if given a chance, I’d stab Benito right now.
Same. I'm getting so pissed at B
I knew the kind of fear that dug deep into your soul and threatened to tear you apart. The kind you never allowed to show on your face but that you felt in your chest every day. Fear that bogged you down and made you silent instead of screaming. Terror that you would let down everyone you loved, and they would die because of you. No one knew better than me, the kind of fear that poisoned every step, every decision while you forced a smile onto your face and faked the confidence as if you knew what the fuck you were doing.
Harlow tried to pull away, and I slammed him against the wall once more. “The next time you send some other man out to buy you panties, I’ll set them on fire. You’ll be lucky if you don’t follow.” A groan slipped his lips before he wet them. “It’s so hot when you threaten to kill me.” “Slut,” I said, the word a little too soft even to my own ears.
“Maybe,” Enzo said. “He seems to be a bad influence on you. Lately, you’re late to work, and when you are here or at Blu, you’re distracted. You can’t afford to be preoccupied.”
Hypocrite
I wanted Benito to want to burn down the world for me. It was a childish dream I had no need for, but it burrowed into my soul the more I tried to brush it away.
I held on tighter to Benito. “何かを欲することが怖い。いつか全ては奪われるであろう。。。けど俺は多分あれ望んでいるかも” I am afraid to want anything. Someday, everything will be taken away, but I think I want this. “Don’t tap out,” Benito said.
Harlow was so far outside the scope of my type, but I couldn’t get enough of him. Being around the man felt like a needle in the vein. When he wasn’t around, I had fucking withdrawals. It was a problem. He was a problem. I don’t want to be away from him.
Damn, Harlow had opened me up. I was supposed to be a man with a mask, but he exposed all my rough edges and still wanted more.
I couldn’t figure out if I’d tamed Benito Vitale or he’d tamed me.
“Non c’è posto al mondo in cui tu possa nasconderti se tocchi ciò che è mio,”
Benito chuckled against my throat. The sound echoed inside of me and filled a part of me I hadn’t known was empty. I wanted more. I wanted to hear him laugh even when the world was burning down around us. I wanted to see him relaxed.
He grunted as he stood by the door, looking like a bodyguard. “I told you to call the boss.” I groaned. “Yeah, I called Quincy this time. I can tell Benito everything later.”
Sigh. Bad idea
Love is nothing more than pain and misery. Dying almost seemed like the lesser evil of the two.
Fucking Benito
“Let me guess; your Vitale brother is an asshole, and he’s done something stupid.” Tex leaned on the bar, his muscles taking up space.
“Mostricio, non nascondetevi da me. Non eri quello che cercavo, ma sei tutto ciò di cui ho bisogno.”
“I’m saying you’re mine, Harlow.” Benito kissed me as he continued to thrust inside. “You’re going to be mine forever. There is no end date. Even in death, it’s me and you.”
