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When I climbed in next to Lucas, he hauled me against his chest, his warmth spreading through my own limbs. “That’s better,” he said drowsily, his fingers tangling in my hair.
I pressed my hand to his chest and felt the steady heartbeat there, the way that his arm cradled my head as if he cared.
He didn’t, of course.
But it was nice to think he did tonight.
It didn’t take long for Lucas’s breathing to start slowing, and only then did I steal a glance at his face. It was slack and without the lines of deep worry that seemed to follow him.
He had done something far worse to me tonight than anything else he had done.
Something even worse than stealing my virginity.
He was starting to steal pieces of my heart.
Chapter 36
Lucas
I woke up to the feeling of a body pressed against mine. My hand felt soft skin underneath. For a moment, I felt a quick burst of panic race through my body before the events of last night came flooding back. I remained still, barely breathing as I felt Leda’s body—soft and warm—against mine.
I’ve never slept with a woman through the night before. It always felt too intimate and too personal to share a bed with someone like that.
Yet I did it with Leda.
I didn’t know what had possessed me to want her to stay. But in the moment, it felt right.
It still did.
She murmured in her sleep, and I instinctively pulled her closer, feeling lightness around my tortured soul for the first time in my entire life. Last night was different. We didn’t just fuck. We did something else, something that I was afraid of putting a name to.
That bothered me the most.
Drawing in a slow breath, I allowed myself to bury my face in her hair, breathing in Leda’s scent. She was ruining me.
Somehow, Leda D’Agostino sank her claws deep inside me. By all means, I should be pushing her away, putting some distance between us so that I could get my shit together. I should be finding each and every excuse on earth to get out of bed.
Instead, a smile was breaking over my face. And no matter how hard I tried to erase it, it kept coming back.
What if I didn’t want to have my shit together? What if I was tired of being alone? What if Leda had touched something deep inside of me last night, something that I thought I’d locked away for good?
It disturbed me how much I wanted this.
Not just having her cry out my name as I filled her pussy. Not just having her beg me for more. Butthis –this moment right here: her body against mine as dawn opened the sky with rosy tips.
Companionship.
If I were a man who was looking at a future with a woman, Leda would be the woman I would picture.
Fuck, I sounded like a teenager with his first girlfriend. I had known Leda all of what? Four, five days? She shouldn’t be affecting me like this. How the hell did she get past my walls that quickly?
But now that she was here, I didn’t want to let her go.
Emil’s words returned again, echoing in my head.Might be best to put her back on the auction block.
But I didn’t want to.
I wanted it all. I wanted Leda, and I wanted control over what should bemyMafia.
