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When I keep staring at her and don’t respond, she says, “You knew I’d go on with my life. Didn’t you?”
I don’t answer the question. Instead, I cup her face and lean in to kiss her lips again. She doesn’t move but lets me kiss her. Slowly, I suck on her lips until she opens them, allowing me deep inside her warm mouth.
The taste of gin, cherries, and amaretto coats her tongue. She’s delicious just like she’s always been.
Piper moves back and pushes her hair away from her face.
“Sorry.”
“You have nothing to apologize for, mia bella.”
A smile tilts her lips, and she shakes her head. “I have no reason to be up here.”
“Why not?” I ask.
“You’re my one weak spot, DeLuca.”
“Is that so bad, mia bella?” I ask, running my finger across her bottom lip.
“Damnit! I’m getting married,” she moans, standing and pulling her fingers through her hair.
I stand up and walk up behind her wrapping my arms around her waist. I press a kiss to the back of her neck.
“You’ll always be mine,” I whisper.
She turns around in my arms and stares up at me.
“I’m not. I can never be yours. You know that, and so do I. It’s why I had to leave you alone the first time. I can’t do this roller coaster ride with you any longer.”
“If you believed that shit, you wouldn’t be standing in my arms, enjoying the feel of my dick pressing against you or letting me kiss you the way I am.”
She exhales deeply and ends it with a groan.
“Fucking bastard. He doesn’t know that you’ll never be his?”
Shrugging, she says, “I suspect that somewhere deep inside he knows.”
“He doesn’t care. I can see that in your eyes. You’re a hell of a catch.”
“Too bad it wasn’t enough for you, huh?”
“You know that’s not true, Piper. From the moment we met, you knew that I was married, and you knew that I couldn’t walk away. There was never a time that I withheld the truth from you. You told me you respected me more because I was honest with you.”
“I know. It was just too hard. DeLuca, you opened up another world for me and made me feel things I only read about in books. Not being able to claim you as mine was my undoing. I can’t...I won’t go back down that path again.”
“I’m not asking you to. Just asking you to be truthful with yourself.”
“About what?”
“That I’m the one you love.”
She averts her eyes and then presses a hand against her eyes, covering them from me. She’s hiding from me.
“Hey,” I say, tugging her hand away. “Ti amo.”
“Don’t do that! That’s not fair!”
She always grew weak whenever I spoke Italian to her in the past, and I would use it to get her to do whatever I wanted her to.
