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And I can’t think straight when I’m not.
She grabs the door jam and pauses. She spins around and throws herself against me, holding my face in her hands as she kisses me. I swallow one of her sobs as our lips touch for the first time in too long. We hold one another, kissing desperately, and everything in my world rights itself.
Her tongue slides against mine and my brows furrow, focusing on putting everything I feel into this kiss.
It’s more than hot. It’s passionate.
And then she pulls away, fleeing out of the room before I have a chance to stop her.
My lips tingle and miss her presence immediately.
She fills the room with electricity, either from rage or pain, and I feed off it because I’ve seen her peace. I’ve felt it.
For the first time in a long time, regret rolls through my stomach and I grab the chair as a crutch.
Goddamn it, I’m a fucking idiot.
I don’t know how long I stand there, but I zone out, not thinking about anything other than royally fucking up. My heart is racing, and my head is spinning.
I’m not cut out for this. I never have been.
I take a seat, lowering my head between my legs to breathe and get my shit together. I’m not like my older brother Carmine when it comes to emotions. My emotions live on my damn sleeve, and everyone knows it. Now, I’m angry at Carmine for setting me up to fail. He knew I wasn’t cut out for this. Emotions have no place in this world we live in.
My jaw suddenly hurts, and I find myself flat on my back, staring up at a concerned Matias. My ears ring and my cheek throbs. My vision swims for a second and my name is being called in the distance. I finally come to and launch my fist against Matias’s face, my knuckles meeting his chin.
“What the fuck?” I groan, getting to my feet.
“What the hell is wrong with you? I’ve been shouting your name for ten fucking minutes.”
“Ten minutes?” I rub my cheek and look at my watch.
Holy shit.
Have I been out of it for nearly an hour? Where did the time go?
The alarms are ringing full blast and once again, time slows. No one needs to tell me what this is about. I run out of the room, sprinting to the master bedroom. I hear Matias’s heavy feet behind me and he’s yelling at me, but I can’t hear him from my pulse beating loud in my ears.
I open the door and stand there, still, holding my breath as I look around for any sign of her. The bed is a mess still from when we slept in it, but the room is dull. The spark of her is gone.
“Where is she?” The words are quiet, calm, and I’m barely able to keep myself under control.
“I don’t know.”
The words have me turning slowly, a cold dread settling in my bones. The emotion I was so worried about is gone and the man Carmine trained me to be, surges forward. In two large steps, I have my brother against the wall, gripping him by his shirt.
“What the fuck do you mean you don’t know? Where. Is. My. Wife!” I shout the title so close to his face, I know he can feel the warmth of my breath.
“Ari, I don’t know. She was here and suddenly, she wasn’t. I don’t know how she got around the security, but we’re looking at the cameras.”
“And the car that was driving back and forth by the gate? What’s the update on that?”
“Don’t know. They vanished. We searched for them for hours.”
“And then you came back, and my wife is gone.” I let him go. “Fuck!” I gutturally shout.
“Ari!” Gianni’s voice echoes from down the hall and I hurry down the hall, hoping he has answers.
The alarms stop wailing and Gianni holds an envelope out to me. “This was attached to the gate.”
