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As the light started to fade, I decided to get undressed for bed.
I still hadn’t unpacked my clothes, so I went over to my bags and took a look through them. Rummaging through, I saw some of the wispy nightdresses that my mother had bought for me, saying that my husband would expect me to dress like this for him in the bedroom. I snorted.
I thought back over the last couple of months when we had been busy preparing for my life as a new wife, never imagining then that I would be expected to sleep in the bed of a man I wasn’t even married to.
I wondered what my family’s reaction had been to the photo Marco sent them of me in my torn and bloody wedding dress, sitting on his unmade bed. I cringed with embarrassment and felt my cheeks heat. I didn’t want my parents or the Società discussing what would be the first time I would have sex, speculating on whether he had taken me last night and if he had been rough with me.
I had to stop thinking about it. Shoving aside the racy lingerie my mother had packed, I picked out some simple sleep shorts and a tank top. I took the nightclothes into the bathroom with me to get changed and brush my teeth.
Again, just as last night, I curled up on the velvet armchair in front of the windows and waited for him to return. I’d put on a light robe over my nightclothes as the air had turned cooler. From the armchair I watched the sun disappear and the darkness take over.
When he returned later that evening, my senses went on high alert. I knew that he would still be angry about what I did earlier, trying to stab him with the fork. Maybe it hadn’t been the best idea, but it had been the only thing I could think of.
I was sitting in the dark, so he switched on the nightstand lamp, and I watched him while he undressed.
MARCO
“Come to bed,” I said.
“What are you going to do?” She bit down nervously on her lower lip.
“Come to bed and see.” She remained in the armchair. Fuck, would she ever be obedient? “Don’t make me drag you into this bed,” I warned.
She walked slowly toward the bed, her bare feet silent against the wooden floor as if she were afraid that any sound might provoke me after what had happened earlier. She slipped off her robe, letting it slide down her slender arms, before quickly getting under the covers.
I turned off the lamp on my nightstand and got into bed. She had turned away from me again, but that didn’t fit in with my plans for her tonight.
I wrapped my arm around her middle and tugged her toward me so that her back fitted into my chest. She gave a little squeak of surprise and tried to scramble out of my hold. Her body writhing against me was making my cock harden into an erect spike.
“You should stop moving against me like that,” I said in a gruff voice, my arousal starting to undo me.
She ignored me at first but then, sensing the stiff rod pushing against her ass, she abruptly stopped wriggling.
“Just relax,” I murmured.
But I could feel her body tensed up in my arms, probably because she was wondering what I would do next.
“We’re just going to go to sleep,” I said in a low voice.
She was silent for a few moments. “We are?” she asked incredulously.
“Yeah. Now relax.” Fuck, this girl was killing me. I wouldn’t take her in anger, not when she was a virgin. And that stunt she pulled earlier with the fork had definitely made me rage.
I didn’t know what she had been planning to do if she had gotten past me. There was no way she would have been able to get off the estate. That was a rookie move by my innocent little virgin.
Her body was rigid with tension, but I didn’t loosen my grip. Instead, I waited for her breathing to relax and for her muscles to yield to sleep.
The heat from her body merged into mine, enclosing both of us in a warm cocoon. I didn’t usually like cuddling women, but for some reason I liked holding her.
While she slept, I noticed how her body fitted perfectly into mine as I held her against me. As we lay there, I admired her profile against the moonlight. I ran my nose down her silky hair and inhaled. She smelled perfect.
***
I woke up with a start, my hand automatically going to my gun on the nightstand.
I flipped on the nightstand light and scanned the room before checking the security feeds via my phone. Juliana was asleep next to me and everything was as it should have been, but I still felt unsettled.
I always felt unsettled.
