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Until I almost blew it again with another loaded question.
We were lying in bed one night after another round of multiple orgasms, and I was tracing my fingers across his skin.
I noticed he had a couple of round scars on his body.
“Is this a bullet wound?” I asked as I pointed at one on his abdomen.
“Uh-huh.”
“You have two of them?”
“Three, actually. Occupational hazard.”
“Did you get them all at the same time?”
“No.” He pointed them out one by one. “That was from a shootout when I was 20… that happened a couple of years ago when a rival family went after me and my brothers… and that was from protecting Alessandra in Florence.”
The final one was a line of scar tissue on his arm like someone had cut him with a particularly nasty blade.
“You protected her? How?”
“Actually, she protected me – I just didn’t know it at the time. Remember the Turk? He had some of his guys try to kidnap Alessandra in Florence. I hustled her over to our car, but the only reason they didn’t kill me was because they were trying to avoid shooting her.”
“Well, you still protected her,” I protested.
“That’s my job,” he said nonchalantly.
“You mean, in your family? You’re, like, a bodyguard?”
“No – that’s my job as a man.”
I got up on one elbow so I could look at him. “What do you mean, ‘that’s your job as a man’?”
“Men are supposed to be the protectors.” He smiled and caressed my cheek with his hand. “Although… sometimes… they’re the ones who get protected.”
I knew he was talking about what had happened in the barn.
I kissed his hand and smiled…
But I still wanted to know what he was talking about.
“Okay, so – you’re supposed to protect all women?”
“Well… I mean, if I can, I guess. But I was specifically talking about family.”
“Like your sister-in-law,” I said.
“Yes. Although she wasn’t my sister-in-law at the time.”
I know it was completely irrational –
I mean, the chick had married his brother and was now his sister –
But I got hit with a bolt of jealousy.
I don’t know why, exactly…
Although maybe it was just the thought that he would do that for any other woman besides me.
