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Then again, did I even take a chance?
I ran.
Oh, shoot.
What if . . . What if he pushed me because he thought that was easier? And I . . .
Damn it.
I don’t take huge risks. This one, the one forming in my head, is the biggest risk I think there might be.
With a shuddering breath, I reach for the ignition.
I’m not crushing on him. I’m pretty sure that the crush was brief, the fall hard, fast, and irreversible. I’m in love with Nicolo Abruzzi and that man is worth me humiliating myself, worth me being rejected.
I’m not letting go without a fight, I’m not—
A shadow falls over me and someone raps hard on my window.
Everything in me goes into freefall.
My entire body tingles as my heart lurches, pulling the broken, shattered pieces into one place. It’s still broken, hurting, but . . .
I look up.
“Nicolo.”
“Open your door,Tesoro.”
An order and one I want to laugh hysterically at. Something that smells fresh, like hope whooshes through me. I open the door, and he unclicks my belt, pulling me out into the sunshine and into his arms.
“I was going to fucking let you go, Avah. I told myself getting you good and mad and hurt was gonna solve all the problems in your world. But I’m not a fucking gentleman. I’m not that good a person because I can’t. I can’t let you go.”
I throw my arms around his neck and he swings me up and off the ground. His mouth buried in my neck, his breath hot and damp on me, and I dig my fingers into him, clinging, because if he lets me go, I don’t know what to do.
“Nicolo, I-I got to here and started to cry. Because I’m an idiot.”
“Fuck no. Babe, you’re the smartest, sweetest thing ever. I pushed.”
“I was coming back.”
“I was coming after you.” He eases me down but doesn’t let me go. His head, his mouth is close to mine, and all I want is to take it, kiss him with everything in me as the pieces of my heart swirl hard, trying to fit together. But I still hurt and throb in the wrong ways within.
Oh, it’s so good having him touching me, his clean male scent around me. But there’s also so much more and . . .
I blink. Hope rising higher. “You were?”
“Yeah, I can’t offer you a picket fence. I don’t even know if I’m made for happy families. For you, I’ll try. I’m gonna quit my job for you. Walk away.”
For a moment I can’t breathe.
“You’d walk from what you love for me?”
“Sweet, little, tasty,Tesoro, I’d do anything for you, and I love one thing more than working with and being part of the De Lucas. You. I didn’t realize I went and fell for you. I’m a bit thick, it took a while, but I’m yours, if you’ll have me.”
“You love them. Your job.”
“I’m in love with you. I love you more.” He kisses me, and it’s slow, sweet, meandering. My heart surges together as the heat of him engulfs me, and I fall into his taste, the wonders of him.
