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“Why don’t we see if we can get rid of our enemies before we worry about how to be a nice, domesticated little couple?”
I snorted. “How could we ever be that?”
“We won’t be. Do you think that’s what Miles and Ben are?”
I couldn’t hold back a smile. “They do try sometimes, but no.”
“I can try. I can learn to cook, or you can, I can take you out on dates, go to dinner, see a movie.”
I frowned. “I’m not sure you can sit still long enough to watch a movie in a theater.”
“We’ll sit in the back so I’ll have something—someone—to play with.”
I contemplated that while I polished off my first piece of pizza. Could we be more than an explosive combination of anger, hate, and lust? Could we survive long enough to find out?
I picked up a second piece of pizza but ended up holding it as I stared at Matteo, watching as he took a bite, then lifted his beer to take a sip. My eyes went to his throat as his Adam’s apple worked up and down.
“What?” he asked.
“Nothing.”
“Carter?”
“I still can’t believe you’re here. That you…that I was so wrong.”
He laid his hand over mine. “Baby, there was no way you could have known what I was doing.”
“It seemed so wrong. I knew you like no one else did, and I couldn’t understand how I’d been so taken in.”
“You weren’t. Nothing I said to you back then was a lie.”
I set the pizza I was holding back on the pan. “I lied to you back then. I told you I hated you. I said I didn’t want you, but I did from the first time I saw you.”
“Your body betrayed every one of those lies. I always saw through you.”
“That’s why you pushed me so hard.”
He grinned. “That, and it was fucking hot to force you, to wait for that second when you gave in and then exploit it.”
“You’re a bastard.”
“And you love every second of it.”
I did. I loved him. Why couldn’t I say the words?
Maybe some part of me still doubted that this was real. Maybe I needed him to say it first. But hadn’t he made it clear already?
I stood and moved around the table. As soon as Matteo turned to face me, I knelt between his legs, and laid my head on his thigh. He combed his fingers through my hair.
“I can’t lose you again,” I whispered against his warmth.
“You won’t.”
“You can’t be sure of that.”
“I will do everything in my power to keep both of us safe.”
I looked up, meeting his gaze. “So will I.”
