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“I can’t breathe without you,” I say, voice raw, like sandpaper on an open wound. “I—I loved you so much I don’t even know who I was before you.”

“I’ll show you what a woman’s made of, Cassian Moretti,” “You think I can’t leave? Watch me.”

“Say the word,” he whispered. “Say yes—and I’ll ruin you with pleasure until the only thing you know is me, until you’re screaming, begging, broken for me. You’ll forget your name. Forget your pain. You’ll only remember what it feels like to be fucking mine.”

“I’ll have my eyes covered,” he said, walking back to me. “While we do this. That way, I won’t see anything, and you’ll be comfortable.”

“Even when life was cruel, he made it gentle. I missed him so much, it felt like grief had hands—pressing down on my chest, making it hard to breathe. If he were still here, none of this would’ve happened. He would’ve stood between me and the world. No matter how small or tired or poor he was. He was my whole world. And the world stole him too soon.” My grandpa too 🤍

“Other mafia bosses had bodyguards. Cassian was the bodyguard. No security detail. No men flanking him. Just one man, a bike, and a reputation that made entire crime families flinch.”

“Who are you, Isaac?”

“I’m the man who’s going to keep you safe.”

“We’d been together for two years, but I would never get over the fact that she was mine.”

“Kai.”
“Hmm?”
“Shut up and kiss me.”

“You think you’re broken, but I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”

“I love you, Isabella Valencia.” Simple and raw, stripped of all pretense except for the naked truth that had been staring me in the face all this time. “Every single part of you, from your laugh to your humor to the way you can’t stop talking about condoms.” One of those laughs I loved so much slipped out, thick with emotion. A smile flashed across my face before I sobered again...”

“She was everything I shouldn’t want, but it didn’t matter. I wanted her anyway. So much so, I couldn’t breathe.”

“I miss you too, love.”

“There was no growth without risk, no progress without change.”

“We loved our mother, but we also loved seeing people call her out. It didn’t happen often.”

“Remember, you read a full page of Austen while getting spanked. If you can do that, you can do anything.” << Kai’s encouraging voice note to Isabella

“Kai had called me love many times before, but he’d never called me his. One word. Two letters. Sometimes, they made all the difference.”

“To be fair, there’s no better time to run away than after getting fired,” I said. “Unlimited vacation days.”

“Cheating is for the intellectually lazy and dishonest.”

“I gasped when he slipped the flimsy silk to the side and brushed a feather over my clit. Where the hell did he get a feather? Another brush, and where he found it suddenly didn’t matter.”

“Just like that, sweetheart. You take my cock so beautifully.”

“That there’s no going back after this.” His admission was a warm breath on my skin. “You should’ve never let me take you, Isabella. Because now that I have, I won’t be able to let you go.”

“Spread your legs for me, love.”

“Isabella.”
I forced a swallow down my throat. “Yes?”
“Shut up and let me kiss you.”

“Few things in life were certain, but this I knew—if I didn’t have her soon, and if she didn’t want me as desperately as I wanted her, I would fucking die.”

“I’d abandoned an evening with my books for a nightclub, for Christ’s sake. If that wasn’t a sign of my irreversible spiral, nothing was.”

“Being the only sober person in a club was like babysitting a room full of strangers.”

“December nineteenth. A Sagittarius through and through, as she’ll tell you,” <<< Isabella’s bday

“That’s it, love.” Gravel transformed Kai’s soft words into a rough command. “Be a good girl and come for me.”

“I was right. You are going to be the death of me,”