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"You are so perfect for me, Lucia." My name on his mouth sounds like the sweetest endearment ever.
I wrap my arms around his neck and inhale his earthy post-coital scent. "I could never have done all that with Tino."
It's probably against all sorts of dating rules to bring up the dead husband while naked with the current lover, but I need Atlas to know that what we have is special. Profound.
"Why?" He slides to the side of me, his gaze searching my face for something.
I'm not sure what he wants to see, but I give him the truth. "I didn't trust him like I trust you."
Even before we lost the baby.
My gaze skims down his body and a laugh is startled out of me. His jeans are shoved down around his hips, his still partially engorged penis laying against his hairy thigh.
"What?"
"You never got your clothes off."
"I was busy." He strips now, but climbs back onto the bed with me.
Neither of us makes a move to shower.
"You are mine,ílios mou. I will never let you go."
His fervency should make me nervous, but it doesn't. It tells me that this thing between us is mutual. We're both all in.
Chapter 30
ATLAS
"Our offer has been accepted on the shipping yard." Zeus looks at me like he's trying to see something in my face.
I take a draw from my beer. "That's good."
Zeus called an in-person meeting with me and Orion. I don't like leaving Lucia, but we've got eyes on the remaining bratva in Portland and Theo is watching over her from outside the bar.
I need to introduce her to my crew soon. They will be part of her life, like they are part of mine. Besides my brothers, they are the only men I trust Lucia's safety to.
"It's a step toward getting us back on track," Zeus says.
Finally. The bratva issue took a lot of time and resources we weren't planning for.
"You want me to finish setting up our protection racket." It is as important for potential money laundering outlets as the income it will provide.
"Constantin wants us to build numbers and make a move to establish our physical territory." Zeus's expression is even more constipated than usual. "That means getting the protection racket up and running."
"Okay, I've got it locked down. I know exactly which businesses to start with and how wide to go with our territory." My discussions with Lucia have paid off. My beautiful lover is a font of information.
"If Lucia balks, we get her to sell the club to us. Constantin agrees."
A pit yawns inside me. None of us trusts the Golubevpakhan. The recent conflict with his bratva makes establishing our territory now imperative.
But Zeus is talking aboutforcingLucia into cooperating with theÁdis Adelfótitalaundering money through her club, or selling Nuovi Inizi to us.
That is not going to happen. "We are not taking her club from her."
"Then get her to cooperate."
"I'm not threatening Lucia." I stand up and lean over my brother's desk to let him see my rage close up and feel how much I mean my words.
