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“Your family treated you like garbage. They took your value and crumbled it. They hurt you. Do you honestly think they love you?” This hurts her. I can tell, because she weeps.
“Nico—”
“Tell me, baby, do you love them? Do you think they love you? What about that three-week hospital stay when your father threw you down a flight of stairs?”
Her head shoots up.“How do you know about that?”
“Emelia, I know everything. I’m part of the largest fucking criminal ring in the world. I did my research. You were treated poorly, and now that I love you, I will seek revenge and make sure they bleed harder than they ever made you. Do you understand?” She’s stone-cold then, but I am running hot. My breathing is heavy.
“You love me?” she prompts, and it’s then I realize what I fucking did.
Shit. It came out. I didn’t plan it or mean to; it just came out. Naturally.
Fuck. I was right. She made her fucking way in. Damn it! I curse myself.
“Nico?” I look at her, and she wipes at errant tears. “You love me? Or are you just trying to get me to forgive this?”
I wait a long moment, trying one last time to push back everything I feel, but I fail miserably. I am like my mother more than I thought. Where Emelia goes, I will. Fucking. Follow.
“Yes, I fucking love you, Emelia,” I snap out, more at myself, not her. “I fell so fucking fast for you. I need you every second. I avoided you, because even when we were in our rage, I fell for you. Your hate made me love you. The way you would touch me and then push me away, it drew me in.”
“Then why didn’t you come home and be with me? Talk to me? Tell me?” She cries still.
“Because I needed to distance myself. I don’t want to fucking need you. I don’t want to love you, but I can’t stop myself. If you aren’t breathing, neither am I. And I feel like a madman, because you have only tested me up until last night. You made me angry every day, but I saw through you, and I spotted something I knew I had to have forever these past couple of days.”
“What? What did you see?” she yells hysterically.
“I saw my parents. I saw that love could exist and I could fall for someone, and if I ever fucking lost you like my mother lost my father, I wouldn’t recover. You scared me!”
With that, she is on me. Grabbing my face, she kisses me with all she has, the water droplets from her hair mixing with the salt of her tears. It all fills my taste buds, and I can’t get her close enough.
I grab her thigh and nudge her, so she will let me in closer. “I love you, Nico. I do. I fell for you the second I knew I hated you.” That would make no sense to anyone else, but to us, it does. Everything about us makes sense to us. Nothing in the world could understand the force that is us.
“You drive me fucking crazy. You know that?” I grip her neck and push her top half back enough so I can look at her. See her. Feel her.
“So do you. Nico, take me. I need you.”
I lay her back on the bed and open her robe, then drop my towel.
“I’m sorry my father killed yours. I’m sorry you lost your mother because of him.” She apologizes for something she owes no penance for.
“Emelia, don’t apologize for other people’s mistakes. But I need you to understand something. Your father is a very dangerous man. He himself may not be able to do much, but he will have others do things for him, and you are at risk.”
“I understand. What are you planning to do?” she asks with a shaky voice.
“I will take care of him. For good.”
“You’re going to kill my father?”
I shake my head. “No, Emelia, I’m going to end the bloodline. Only you will be the last remaining heir.”
She gulps. There is no other way. I thought I would have a couple more years, but with each passing day as Emelia’s husband and seeing the way my business has been messed with, I have to do it sooner rather than later. I have my father’s legacy to carry and my wife’s protection to keep.
“Emelia.” I gain her attention. I can’t believe I am going to fucking do this. “Is this going to push you away?”
She looks at me, her brows furrowed with confusion.“What?”
“If I get revenge on your family, is it going to fucking hurt you, my love.”
