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“I walked in on my father having sex with Ariana.”
My jaw dropped. I was not one to be fazed by gossip, but this was unexpected.
Damn that Bernoulli girl. She always looked for ways to fuck with Grazia’s head. God knows I had to peel her off my cock a couple of times.
“Grazi, come here.”
She didn’t need convincing to hide in my arms. The moment her head landed on my chest, I felt my heart beating again. It was good and terrifying. I knew for a long time Grazia was mine and I was hers, but I never understood the power she had over me until I lost her.
“Oh, Salvatore, I’ve made a mistake.”
“Someone saw you coming here?”
“I don’t know. I don’t care. I left you.” She hid her face in my shirt. “Do you know how many nights I was awake feeling guilty for seeing you, thinking that I was betraying Father? I hated that.”
“I know.”
“I asked him to kick her out Salvatore, and he said he’s not done yet. He picked her over me while I’d picked him over you. That was my mistake.” Her voice broke and so did my heart.
Fabiano Caputo was a piece of shit. I knew it, the Mafia knew it, even some of his sons did, but in Grazia’s eyes he always remained a hero on a pedestal. I could never bring myself to shatter that admiration in her eyes when she spoke about him.
All the patience I had with Fabiano has just run the fuck out. It was time for him to pay for all the women in my life that he had hurt.
“Stop crying, Grazia. It makes my blood boil.”
“Did I ruin everything, Salvatore? Did I lose you for good?”
“No.” I answered in one breath.“The world could end tonight and you’d still have me, Grazia Caputo. You’ll always have me.”
I took vows in church that weren’t as true as that.Grazia was my air, my life. She was my world. The sun that showed up in the sky every morning, the fog rolling down the city on autumn nights, the wildness of the sea, she was all that beauty. She was mine.
Some other men might love some other women, but what we had put love to shame.We could make each other happy more than anything and we also could bring each other so much misery, it was unbearable.We were one soul split in half.
“I can’t go back there, Salvatore.”
“Why didn’t you go to one of your brothers?”
She turned to ice.
“You want me to leave.”
“No, but I want to know why did you come here?”
“Why… because I needed... because…” she was choking on such a simple question. Maybe because she avoided the words I was expecting to hear like the plague for the past four years. “I j-just wanted to get out of there and I need you.”
“Why me, Grazia?”
“Because you’reyou! Because you’re the only one that has ever made me a priority.”
“Grazia.” This was her last warning.
“Because I love you, Salvatore. Is that want you want to hear?”
“It’s a start.”
She opened her giant doe eyes, blue like polished turquoise stones and pinned me down with them.
“I didn’t have to say the words for them to be true. I gave you my heart, my body, and everything in between. That should be enough.”
