At my helpless shiver, he laughed. ‘I should spank you for letting me waste my time arguing with you when you want this as much as I do.’
I bit my lip and finally opened my eyes.
He’d recovered much faster. And despite the signs of our vigorous fucking – his slightly flushed cheek, unruly hair and gloriously reddened mouth – he looked ready to go again. A sight that both thrilled and alarmed me.
My body ached, for sure, but it was already priming itself for another round.
And… sweet Jesus, as he rose and prowled to the bathroom without an ounce of self-consciousness – and why the hell should he with a body like Adonis? – I couldn’t shut up the voice yelling at me to get up fast enough.
Condom disposed of, he came back into the room and stopped beside the bed. Ferocious eyes traced my body from face to feet and back again, stopping at my pussy. The warm towel he pressed between my legs was a welcome surprise. An alarmingly heart-warming act that snatched what little breath I’d regained.
Like his feeding me and catching me when I was dizzy, this felt like an act of a considerate man. Not the vengeance-seeking mobster’s heir from the nightclub or the racer hellbent on crushing his enemies.
But weirdly, I didn’t even prefer one over the other. They were all tied up in the mystery that had created Cesare Salvatore. And my growing addiction was fiercely worrisome.
Done tending me, he threw the cloth to the floor then, reaching into the drawer, he slid his other hand up my inner thigh.
I watched in awed fascination as his cock began to stir once more.
‘Normally, I’d give you a chance to rest, but as you can see, you turn me on like a fucking teenager. And you imposed a timeline on us. So’ – he smirked as he gripped my hips and flipped me over onto my stomach, then arranged me onto my hands and knees – ‘this, too, is your fault.’
Then he proceeded to pleasure me in the most sublime way.
‘One more thing,’ Cesare said as he shifted sideways and gathered my pliant body close.
I groaned, desperately fighting the urge to succumb to the weariness sapping deliciously at my bones. Like most health-conscious individuals, I had a gym membership I used on a semi-regular basis. And when I couldn’t go I utilised a semi-disciplined yoga regime.
Sadly, neither of them had prepared me for what Cesare wrung from my body. The result of which was needing every ounce of depleted energy to get up, get dressed.
Leave.
I couldn’t fall asleep. Not here. Not now.Never with him.‘Seriously?’
There was a reason Bonafacio’s plans to marry me off and push his agenda for great-grandchildren had hit a major roadblock five years ago. A reason why in a patriarchal hierarchy where women were low on the totem pole, I ranked even lower.
As a teenager I’d suddenly developed the nasty habit of sleepwalking. And if that wasn’t awful enough, I also had a habit of carrying out full-blown conversations with zero recollection of them upon waking.
As a mobster’s granddaughter, it was a massive flaw that would’ve had my tongue cut out in the Old Country half a century ago. Luckily I’d been born in this age, to a grandfather who despised me but thankfully drew the line at murdering his own granddaughter for a flaw that was out of her control.
Small mercies for the win.
But the warning had been drilled into me repeatedly.
Never fall asleep in a presence of anyone untrustworthy.
A warning I was in serious danger of flouting right now.
Getupgetupgetup.
Firm hands brushed back my damp hair from my face, then wrapped around my head to raise my head so he could capture my gaze. ‘You need to get dressed.’
I stiffened, distressed to be swinging from an inner pep-talk about leaving to being annoyed and a little hurt that Cesare was pushing for the same thing. ‘Why?’
‘My doctor is on his way. He’s going to draw some blood.’
Doctor? What the hell? Did we do something unsavoury? Or was he now confessing a condition he should’ve mentioned before?Oh God.‘Again, why?’
He dropped his mouth to mine in a quick searing kiss. ‘Because the next time we fuck will be without a barrier between us. I’m clean and I know you are too but just for your peace of mind, we’ll get fresh tests,sì?’
