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“I didn’t tell him it was you that beat me up.” Nova picks up the play that I’m making.
I kiss her neck. “Good girl,” I whisper before slipping back into character. “It was Aldo?” I snarl.
“You expect me to believe she didn’t tell you and that someone else broke into my place and beat the shit out of me?”
I ignore him and turn Nova’s head to look at me. “Why didn’t you tell me it was Aldo?”
“I knew you’d kill him if I told you he tried forcing me into giving him a blowjob.”
I can feel the anger pouring off the men around the table because wives are supposed to be off-limits. Not everyone believes that of course.
“She wasn’t married then,” Aldo snaps, sensing it too.
“I was,” she replies softly, showing her ring, which she wasn’t wearing that day.
“I was wearing my ring. You just didn’t notice. Not that you would have cared. You didn’t care who my father was, and when I called Vigo and you were told to stand down, you choked me so hard, you popped the blood vessels in my eye.”
It’s faint now, mostly healed, though the bruising is still around her neck and cheekbone in a sickly yellow color.
“Without proving you consummated the marriage, this means nothing. It’s a sham. It...” His voice drifts off as Conner pulls out his laptop and types a few keys.
I turn Nova’s head, sliding my hand into her hair and holding her in place, her eyes locked on mine as the sound fills the air. Out of the corner of my eye, I see the video of me fucking Nova cast up onto the large television. She tenses when she recognizes the sounds, trying to move her head to look, but I tighten my grip and keep her eyes on mine.
I watch as she realizes that I filmed us without her consent, and now I’m showing intimate details of not just her body but the night I took her virginity, just to prove a point.
The softness she usually has for me is gone. In its place is a coldness that makes me swallow. A tear runs down her cheek as I signal Conner to turn it off. When he does, I hold out my free hand for him to pass me the folded sheet. I toss it at Aldo, breaking my gaze from Nova’s to look at his shocked face.
“Our bloody sheet. If you look harder, you’ll find Nova’s release and my cum. Is that enough, or do I need to fuck her over the table too?”
Nova is rock solid in my arms as I wait for him to answer.
It’s Gian who breaks the shocked silence. “That won’t be necessary, Vice. I think this meeting is over.”
Aldo snarls. “I’m not finished. You don’t want to make an enemy of me.”
Gian glares at him. “Why? Will you beat my wife, too? Or make me subject her to this kind of humiliation?
“You’ve made one thing clear, though, Aldo. We let Vigo get away with too much.” He looks at Nova, his eyes softening, but she’s oblivious, looking at a spot over my shoulder. “At least he tried to right a wrong. Maybe that can be his legacy.” He looks back at Aldo, who looks fit to be tied.
“Vice is right. You have no power over us. You have not proved yourself to be anything other than a bully. Keep your men out of my territory, or I’ll send them back in pieces.”
“You’ll regret this. You all will.”
Mattia leans forward. “Try it. But you’ll stand alone against the four of us, and we won’t stop until you are on your knees.”
Chapter 31
Nova
Aknock on the door quiets everyone down.
When it opens, a voice I don’t recognize speaks up. “Mr. Lambardi. Your wife is here, and so is the lawyer.”
“Tell them to wait.”
“Yes, sir.”
Nobody speaks until the door is closed. I keep my gaze on the wall as Vice strokes his fingers up and down my back.
