Lorenzo (Chicago Ruthless, #3)

by Sadie Kincaid

“You’d better take me to bed so you can collect then.”

I feel her beneath my skin, creeping through my veins and forcing her way into my heart. That’s what I said to her in Italian. How much I need her. How I can’t go a single minute without thinking of her. And when she asked me what I said—how could I tell her the truth?

“I want the whole package. I want kids and maybe even to get married again one day. I want a man who looks at me like he’d hang the moon if I asked him to.

“I know you think you’re some tough guy with these walls you’ve built, but you’re letting fear hold you back. It takes real bravery to open your heart and start again.”

“You think I’m afraid? Of what? You?”

“I think you’re afraid of feeling anything for anyone, Lorenzo. Of loving again. But love is always worth the risk. Even if your heart gets broken in the process. What’s the po...

“I could never love anyone the way that...

“I know you belie...

As much as I love him, I would rather live alone with hope than live a hopeless life with him.

“I’ll miss you, sunshine. Take good care of yourself, okay?”

“Thank you so much for everything, Lorenzo Moretti, but most of all for making me remember how it feels to be alive.”

So go live enough for both of us, content with the knowledge that the piece of your heart you gave me is safe in my hands for eternity. Until we meet again, my dearest love, Anya x

“Because it hurts so fucking much to lose you. I need you to know that it wasn’t all one-sided. You told me you loved me and I let you believe you meant nothing, when you mean more to me than I thought anyone ever could again.”

“I care about you, Mia. I really do. But I can’t let her go.”

“That is why we would never work, Lorenzo. Not because you still love your wife—of course you do—but because you have no idea who I am. For a man so intuitive to my emotions and my physical needs, you don’t actually know me at all.”

“I know you...

“...

“If you knew me, you’d know that I believe every person we love makes their mark on our hearts, shaping us into the people we become. You are the man you are because of Anya. Who knows if I would’ve even liked the man you were before her? But I love the man you are now. And if...

As it turns out, I still have a heart after all. It seems Mia Stone put it back together so quietly and carefully that I didn’t even notice until I felt it break all over again.

“You’re a very difficult woman to let go of, Mia.”

“Good girl.”

“Because I was a fucking fool, and I had no idea how much I needed you until you weren’t here anymore. And now that you’re home, I don’t want to spend another night without you, Mia.”

“In my bed, Mia, you will call me Sir. Understand?”

“But you said you’d never …”

“I was wrong. You still want this with me?”

“Yes,...

“Good ...

“You smell so fucking delicious. I don’t know how I ever ...

“I can see I’m going to have so much fun playing with you, sunshine.”

“Hold out your hands,”

I do as he asks, watching in fascination as he binds my wrists together with my underwear, like...

“Such a needy little sub,”

he taunts, sinking his cock inside me once more. How does he have so much stamina? He’s already finished inside me twice and he’s ready to go again.

come for me, tesoro,”

“Why won’t you look at me, sunshine?”

“I’m not sure of the rules.”

“There are no rules. Yet. We haven’t ag...

“We agree to them t...

“Of co...

“Will I need a sa...

“...

“I think it should be...

“It can’t be b...

“Why ...

“Because it has to be a word that you wouldn’t ordinarily say. You say b...

“I...

“...

“You are the only person I know who says bananas when they...

“I don’t always say bananas when I mean that other word,”

“Pick another.”