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I’ve waited five years to tell Andrei that I love him, and the way my confession breaks him makes my heart bleed even more for the man.
His mask cracks, a wave of anguish rippling across the surface and revealing the scarred flesh underneath. I catch glimmers of his pain—deep, throbbing aches that I inflicted when I broke our promise to each other and left him behind. His eyes slide shut, and he draws a slow, steady breath. “I’ve waited so long to hear you say that.” He grasps my hand and laces our fingers together, gripping tightly. “You’ve never said it before.”
“I never meant it until now.” I thought I loved him before, but I realize now that I loved the idea of him—who I thought he was. But now, I’ve seen the darkest parts of his desire and his passion, and I want it all, exactly as is.
I kiss him first this time, hoping to drown out all the hurt and replace it with love.
Love for our sheltered past, love for our crazy, fucked-up present, and love for all the possibilities of our future.
Chapter 20
Andrei
Valentina loves me.
For a long time, I wasn’t sure. I always knew that I loved her, but despite how much I tried to show her the sweeter side of me, she never fully opened up. She blushed, commented politely on my dreams, shared what few she had... but not once did she say or show she loved me.
And then, she left.
“Take us home, Marvin,” I instruct my driver. “The long way.”
“Yes, sir.”
Valentina’s emerald eyes widen beautifully. She’s flushed all down her neck and across her chest, and I want to lick every heated inch of her body.
“In—in the car?” she squeaks.
I cup her cheek and press yet another kiss to her lips, hoping to silence her worries. “I want to spend time with you, Valentina. Uninterrupted time.” My cell phone is already vibrating in my pocket, either from the business meeting I’m missing or Mikhail furiously texting our group chat with salacious ideas about what I’m going to do to our woman.
Likely both.
“The car is merely part of the journey.” I trail my fingertips up the inside of her arm, enjoying the way she shivers under my touch. “I intend to take my time satisfying you, Valentina...” An ugly tear in my heart pumps vicious jealousy through my veins. “...And erasing every single fucking memory you have of that fucking mudak.”
She blinks up at me. “Who, Liam?”
Rage ricochets across my ribcage like shrapnel. “Yes, and he’s next on my fucking list,” I hiss, snapping open the back door of my SUV. “Get in.”
Valentina does as she’s told, and I take a deep breath before following. I’m not angry with her. I’m angry that, out of anyone she could have slept with, it had to be the bastard who’s been lying to her fucking face for years.
That pisses me the fuck off.
I slide into the seat behind my wife and immediately push her onto her back. “You’re going to tell me everywhere that mudak touched you. Take off your dress.”
Her eyes widen again, and I can taste the fear on her. Good. I know she gets off on it.
I unbutton my shirt and tear it from my shoulders. “I said, take off your dress, Valentina.”
“You can’t be serious,” she breathes, trying to sit up on her elbows. “We’re in a moving vehicle?—”
A growl reverberates in my chest, and she cuts off with a squeak. Crawling on top of her, I straddle her hips and pull her dress up. When I reach her ribs, I slow down, taking one precious inch at a time. The slow but steady revelation of her skin makes my mouth water.
“I don’t care where we are. When I want you, I will have you.” My hands reach her breasts, and I brush my thumbs over them as I continue dragging the garment up her body. “Lift your back, darling, so I can pull this off.”
She obliges, and all that’s left now is her pesky little bra. Mikhail’s been buying all of her clothes, and I have no doubt he picked out this piece too. “Take it off.”
I don’t want to see anyone else’s clothing on her body right now, not even my brother’s.
She hesitates, so I take her hand and curve it behind her back. When her bra is finally unclasped and lying on the floor, I pin her arm beneath her. The sound she makes, half-gasp and half-outraged-growl makes me laugh, even as my cock stiffens in my pants.
