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In the end, the person who needs to save me isme.
22
SALVATORE
For the last day and a half, Brielle and I have been doing nothing but shooting, fighting, and fucking.
Mostly, the shooting and fighting.
She is still in a state of shock about everything, but she is eager to bring it all to an end. It concerns me. My father was a horrible man but I think her so-called parents are worse. At least mine never pretended to be something he was not. I knew exactly where he stood with us and who we were to him. Her parents pretended to love her when she was only a pawn in their game to get ahead.
It makes my heart ache for her — something I didn’t know my heart was capable of doing before Brielle came into my life.
She’s changed me and brought out parts of me that I thought I buried when I was a child. The others are seeing it too. Matteo likes to insist that she is good for me.
I think we’re good for each other, even though I still have plenty of opportunities to fuck this all up.
When she turns to me with a bright smile, holding up her target, I fall a little bit more in love with her.
“I’m getting better,” she says, tucking the gun into the holster on her hip. She pulls out the hair tie from her red hair, letting the curls cascade down her back. “Please tell me that we’re done for the day, though. I’m exhausted.”
“Great shooting,” I say, taking the target from her and holding it up to inspect the holes. I toss it to the side and grin at her. “I have something I want to show you.”
Her eyes widen and a slow smile spreads across her face. “Something to show me, huh?”
“You’re going to love it.”
I take her hand, linking my fingers with hers, and lead her over to the ATV we’ve been driving around the property. After I get on, she slides on behind me, her legs bracketing mine. All the blood in my body rushes south as I think about those legs draped over my shoulders while I bury my face in her pussy and taster her orgasm on my tongue.
Not right now,I think as I start the ATV and head farther back on the property than I’ve taken her before.
It takes a few minutes to drive through the trees that separate the main property from the rest of it. A little lake appears with a small cabin beside it. Brielle gasps from behind me as I head for the little cabin.
I park the ATV outside the cabin before getting off. She follows me, her eyes wide as she looks around.
“What is this place?” she asks as she goes to stand at the edge of the lake.
“My favorite place in the world.” I tuck my hands in my pockets and stand beside her at the water’s edge. “I used to come here when things got too tough with my father.”
“What was he like?”
“A terrible man, though sometimes I like to think that he loved us in his own way. I doubt it, though. My father liked to see us as commodities for the famiglia. Aria was the charmer. Damien was the heir. Gio and Matteo are excellent with tech and management.”
“And what were you?” she asks, looking up at me.
“His weapon.” The corner of my mouth twitches as I tilt my head back to look at the white clouds drifting across the sky. “He made me callous and cruel because that’s what he needed me to be. That’s what I’m going to have to be to deal with your parents.”
She nods. “‘I’ve been staying away from the meetings you guys are having about them. I don’t think I can stomach listening to what’s going to happen to them from several different people all at once.”
I turn to her and take her hand. Brielle smiles when I lift it to my mouth and kiss the spot where I’ll put a ring someday.
I know until this is all over, we can’t think about forever. But if I make it out of the situation with her parents alive, I know what is the next step I want us to take.
“Do you want to know?” I ask her softly.
Brielle takes a deep breath and sits down in the long grass. Her hand drifts absentmindedly over her stomach as she looks at the water. “No, but I think I need to know. Especially if I’m going to be there.”
“I understand. Tell me if it gets to be too much and I’ll stop.” I sit down behind her, my legs spread on either side of her as she leans back against my chest.
