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When dinner rolls around, I go outside and take a seat next to Aurora. The guys are fighting at the barbecue. My lips curve up in a small smile.
“Flip it already,” Kieran grumbles.
“Cato, it’s fucking burnt,” Cameron adds, voice ringing of frustration.
“You two don’t know shit.”
Aurora drinks from a glass of wine, chuckling as they put new patties and steaks on the grill.
“How do you deal with his possessiveness?” I ask, genuinely curious.
“He makes up for it.” She giggles, and I push her playfully.
“Yes, at least they’re good in bed.”
Aurora’s eyes widen. “You can’t leave me hanging.”
“We fuck, angry fuck mostly.”
She rests her elbows on the table, urging me with a wave of her palm. You can do this, Chiara. She’s your best friend.
“He’s consuming, and I can’t...” I open my mouth to tell her more, but the moment vanishes when the guys bring the food. What’s wrong with me? I ask her to help me escape and then confess the truth?
I jump up, hyperventilating when Cato says, “Eat.”
That has my dam of nerves breaking. I am a train wreck speeding full throttle into a wall.
“You’re not my fucking boss,” I yell. He shoots upright and towers over me. He’s losing his patience with me.
“Fucking eat. You can throw a tantrum afterward.”
On pure impulse, I grab the steak and slap it onto his mouth, taking off into the house and up the stairs to our room with tears running down my cheeks. But he’s right beside me.
He shuts the door behind me and turns me around. I am full-on crying and trembling. “I am sorry. I am so sorry.” For being a mess. His anger slips away, and he presses me to him, burying his face in my neck. He rains kisses on me. “I love you. I’m in love with you,vita mia.” Kiss. “We’ll be all right.” Kiss. “Everything I am, everything I have, is for you.” Kiss.
“I love you,” I mouth against his chest, letting him hold me.
Tears fall freely from my eyes. I am an awful human being, and I have never hated myself more. Needing his skin on mine, his lips on mine, him making love to me, I give in to my own need.
“There is something going on . . . don’t betray my trust.”
“Cato, not now, please, not now.” I am one second away from breaking apart, breaking down.
“Fine,cara, I trust you.”
One word that has the capacity to butcher me—trust.I don’t deserve that.
“Show me your mad love for me,” I demand, plead, beg, all at once.
“I will. Crawl to me first.”
I smile, because this is us, isn’t it? I get on my hands and knees and crawl toward him. My need filling every crevice inside me.
I show him, with my tongue, my fingers, my pussy, I am his, while my heart shrivels in my chest.
“One day, you will stop fighting us, and on that day, I will finally be happy.”
His words kill me, while his body burns me alive.
