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“We were young,” I said with a shake of my head.
“It doesn’t have to be something that happened so long ago,” Senna said with a flirty rise in her brow.
I was tempted. I wasverytempted. I still hadn’t come since Gia stopped me. But there was no way I could fuck Senna without seeing her brother’s bloated corpse when I closed my eyes. Nah. I couldn’t.
“Not tonight, Senna,” I told her. I wasn’t completely shutting down her idea, but it was a soft no right then. I’d finish my drink and go home alone.
* * *
When I gotto the house, my brothers were smoking outside, with their eyes trained on the pool house.What the hell are they looking at?
Then I saw it.
Gia was standing in front of the wall of windows, wearing only her bra and panties. Her hair was slicked back and dripping wet.
I turned off the ignition instead of heading toward the garage and watched her, then my brothers. They hated her and still their eyes were locked on every curve. The slow, sensual way she moved as she reached back to unclip her bra made me fairly certain she knew she was being watched. Much too slow and sensual for a lone dip in the pool. My eyes dropped to the thin tan line that had been covered by her bra. I followed her body until I landed on her ass. It looked fucking incredible in her black panties. Bruises still peeked from beneath the fabric. The way her hips moved as she hooked her fingers into her panties and started to pull them down, I was certain she knew she was being watched. As the fabric rolled down half her ass, I slammed on my horn.
Gia turned around, clutching her bare chest. Her face had no fear, no embarrassment. My brothers scurried back inside. She knew what she was doing. She wanted to get my brothers going.
Alcohol swirled through my bloodstream, making it a bad time to confront her about it.I’m not going to confront her,I told myself as I got out of the car.I’m just going to talk to her.I made my way across the lush grass. Rainwater still clung to the tips of the blades, and it soaked through the bottom of my pants. Her expression shifted into something playful, and that was going to piss me off the moment I walked in there.Just talk to her.
I threw open the pool house door and walked into the potent scent of chlorine. Water beaded along the bottom of the windows from the steam and dripped toward the tile flooring.
“What’s the matter?” she asked. Just like I thought, she was playing, and I wasn’t in the mood to play.
“Are you out of your mind?” I snapped as I started to unbutton my shirt. I slipped it off and stepped into her, trying to ignore her perfect breasts as I put the shirt around her shoulders. “Cover up, for fuck’s sake. What are you trying to do here? That show wasn’t for me.”
She shrugged. “Thought maybe it would help your brothers hate me less.”
“They ain’t gonna hate you less. They’ll fuck you even if they don’t like you, and you aren’t all that likable, Gia. But you sure as shit are fuckable.” I let the liquor talk as I looked at her in my dress shirt.
Her eyes rounded and her lower lip softly pouted. “Well?” she asked.
“Not gonna happen, babygirl,” I said as I stepped into her and touched my forehead to hers. “I wish I could, but things are a fucking mess. Too messy for this shit. Whatever this is.”
“Can’t we not be enemies for—”
“Oh, don’t start that. You aren’t my enemy, you just can’t be my ally. Not now.”
“When have you cared what they thought about me? You let me come around them all before!” Her words rose sharply.
“That was before—”
“Before what?”
“Silvio, the hit on you, the ghosting,” I whispered. “Bullseye.”
“I didn’t kill Silvio.”
“I know you didn’t. Now my brothers know you didn’t, but what do you think they’re gonna tell people? That it was you or your damn father. They ain’t gonna say it was me. Even though itwasme.”
“Tell them all the truth,” she whispered.
I rubbed my chin, smoothing down the hairs as I looked away. I met her gaze again. “You clearly are out of your damn mind.”
I couldn’t tell the truth without it ruining me. Wrecking the business. I could own it, crawl back to the top stronger than ever, but right now? The foundation was much too weak to come out with that kind of confidence. I’d fucking love to have Gia on my hip, destroying shit, merging families. I’d marry the fuck out of her and make her a Viglione. But the target on her back spilled onto me, even without me inside her.
ChapterFourteen
