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Everything I’ve worked for. Everything I care about. It’s all threatened, and I was just given a chance to grab it by the throat and do something useful.

Instead, I’m left sitting here, in the back of a dark parking lot, next to a useless corpse, listening as the sirens close in around me.

I’m almost ready to give in and just let the cops get their hands on me. But then I close my eyes, and I see the girl who has given my life new meaning.

Francesca Galli.

My slave. My lover.

My queen.

If I give up here, she’ll never become the woman I need her to be. And I’ll never be the man I’m supposed to become.

With a deep, angry breath, I open my eyes and push myself off of my ass. Stepping through the blood, I shove my gun away and get ready to hotwire a car.

I’ve got to get home. Back to Francesca.

Chaos has descended upon my reign, and I’ve been pushed back to where it all began. My big lead is gone. That means the Galli princess is more important than ever. Her body could fix everything. Her fertility could give me new life.

She’s at the center of my universe. And I need to make sure she understands why.

Shit needs to start moving fast. There’s no time to be gentle about it anymore.

Francesca will have to learn to live with it.

Welcome to a brave new world, kitten. My world. Shit is about to get wild.

17

Francesca

I’m still frantically looking for the lost pills when I hear him return.

Fuck.

All day, I’ve been limping around this house, my thighs sore and my body worn down to a nub, trying to find those fucking birth control pills.

And to think, my day started off so peacefully.

When I woke up, it didn’t matter how sore I was. I didn’t care that I was twisted between sweat-stained covers, or that there was dry blood stuck to my skin.

My eyes opened from a deep sleep and the first thing I felt was a smile on my face.

It wasn’t just that I had finally lost my virginity, or that the sex was amazing.

It was that Ray was amazing.

Hell, I was amazing.

Together, we were amazing.

It was that satisfaction that allowed me to push through the aches and the pains and get up for the day. After a long hot shower, I did what I’ve been doing religiously for the past year. First thing after I open my eyes, I pop one of those little pills.

But they weren’t were I left them.

It took me a while before I began to panic. There was no reason why anything of mine would be missing. Yet here I am, hours later, nerves stretched thin because I can’t find the one thing I actually need after letting a man cum inside me.

“Francesca?” Ray’s voice booms through the mansion, and I can hear a hint of that same edge that he returned home with last night.