Longing.
Utter craving.
Sure, I had only been kissed once in my life. I’d been busy with ballet and Vito had even explained that my stepfather’s men had kept guys away from me.
But this was the kiss that I read about in romance novels and fairytales.
The kiss that the prince gave the new princess.
The kiss that said happily-ever-after and I’ll love you forever.
He kissed me as if he was claiming not just my body, not just my heart, but my soul, and in that moment, I realized even more that this marriage would be anything but simple.
There was power in his kiss.
A demand and promise of utter commitment and earth-shattering possession.
It was a kiss that promised mind-numbing pleasure and delicious pain.
Dominance and surrender.
And I found myself craving more, despite everything I knew about the man who had just sealed our bond with blood.
But what haunted me too, was the hint of desperation coming from that kiss and the way his tongue dove into my mouth like he was starving.
Like he was deliriously hungry for my taste.
That kiss said that I had his heart and soul too.
That Ialsowas in control.
Oh. My. God.
Against my will, I found myself responding to him, drawn to it.
Kissing him back and groaning right in front of the priest and all the guests.
I kissed the Devil back and had not one regret.
And when Gianni finally pulled away, that kiss lingered on my lips, leaving me breathless and utterly disoriented.
Well. . .that’s another. . .plot twist. . .
I had braced myself for something cold and brutal—something that would remind me of the monster I had just married.
But instead, I had been met with a kiss so intense, sosinfullygood, that it left me reeling.
Was this what it felt like to kiss the devil?
To taste the forbidden fruit and realize that it was sweeter than anything I had ever known?
To feel a pull so strong that it drowned out every warning, every instinct to run?
To feel as though I was being drawn into a world of sin and shadows, and yet wanting to willingly go even further?
Desire blazed through me.
I wanted another kiss, but everyone was getting up to congratulate us.
