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He certainly sounds like he wished he hadn’t told me.
“You have a child?” I whisper.
He swallows hard and moves to turn away from me. “I’m sorry, Katiya, I can’t …”
“Marco, don’t go.” I place my hand on his arm to stop him from moving away, and he turns to look at me.
“I’m not going anywhere,princess. I’m just going to get us a nightcap.” He touches his hand to my cheek and strokes it softly. “It’s a hard limit talking about that, I’ve never spoken about it to anyone other than Angelo.”
“Oh my god, did something happen to them?” I slap a hand over my mouth, realizing that was insensitive of me. “Marco... I’m so...”
“Katiya, hush,” he says, placing his finger over my lips. “It’s not that in the sense of the word. We found out at the time we were breaking up … she left me one day. I came home to find the house empty and deserted. When she finally called me to talk …” He blows out his breath slowly and puts his head in his hands, leaving them there so I can’t see his face.
I wait, but he says nothing else. “Marco, what happened? What did she say?”
“She …. She had terminated the pregnancy already.”
I stare at him bewildered for a moment, and he doesn’t move an inch. “Marco, I’m so sorry.”
“She never discussed it with me. She just went and did it. I’m all for women's rights, but we never even had the discussion, Katiya. I never got the chance to voice how I felt. She took that from me, and it’s still hard to talk about to this day.”
I lean over to him and hold onto his wrists, pulling them away from his face. When he looks up at me, his dark blue thunderous eyes cloud over. This is a side to him I’ve never seen.
My heart breaks in my chest several times over. “That must have been very painful. I’m so sorry that happened.”
“There’s nothing anyone can do.” He shrugs, running his hand through his hair. “Least of all me.”
I reach up to kiss him. “This is why you’re so guarded, isn’t it?”
“It’s extremely hard to trust, Katiya. That’s all I know.”
I bring him back to me, not letting him leave the bed and pull up to kiss him softly and slowly. It was a big admission for him. I want to be there for him, so he doesn’t regret telling me something so deep and so personal.
“I need to feel you again, Katiya.” he says huskily in my ear, changing the subject.
I laugh, nodding my head. “I’m ready, Marco.”
We make love this time. Softly, sensually, I ride him, and he lets me take full control.
I don’t know anything else except the world I live in with him. And even if it is a fantasy that I won’t be able to wake from and find a happy ending, we have tonight.
That will have to do for now.
* * *
I leave shortly after, the party is still pumping through the casino when we exit the elevator, and Marco sneaks me out one of the back passageways toward his driver’s car.
I had the best night ever. Every single moment I spend with him is like heaven on earth.
I just hope I can get back to Ana’s party before I get sprung.
Since we’re all adults here, the guards were waiting outside her house, but all it could have taken was Dimitri or Maxim to come inside and check on things.
I had turned my phone on silent, and when I check now, I see I’ve got a dozen missed calls from both Ana and Monique.
“Oh crap,” I mutter.
“What’s the matter?” Marco brushes the hair off my face as he takes in my concerned reaction.
