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“I’m treating you just like you deserve right now.”
What did he deserve then?
“I should have stayed home.”
“Yes, you should have!” He barked back.
There wasn’t anything left to say. Nothing Iwantedto say anyway. I turned to the door and started walking, leaving Salvatore behind. He started chasing me and we walked out of the restaurant together.
“Grazi, wait a damn minute.”
“No.”
“You wanted a fight, so let’s fight.”
“No, Salvatore. I wanted a night out with you. I wanted to go out in public holding your hand after five years. That’s what I wanted.” I pushed a button on the key of the Maserati and the headlights turned on. “I’m going home.”
“Grazia, wait.” He stepped in front of me. “I’m sorry.”
“You think that makes it better? I’ve spent two hours making myself pretty and picking out this dress because I thought I was going to dinner with my husband and you didn’t even look at me.”
“I’m sorry. Listen, Grazi, I know I fucked up. I will make it better.”
“I found you with another woman in your lap!”
“Stop.”
“Stop?” I was appalled. “We’ve been married for eight days! What happened? Five years I couldn’t get rid of you and now that the chase is over, you’re bored? How could you?”
“How could I what, Grazia? How could Iwhat?”
“You’ve been drinking and Maria looked damn comfortable in your arms.”
“If you want to say something, Grazia, spit it out.”
“If I hadn’t have come, would you have returned home in the morning smelling like her perfume?”
“Fuck!” He roared and started boxing the dashboard with his left hand. He hit the plastic over and over again until it cracked. His hand was bloody too. “Do you have any idea how fucking crazy you make me, you beautiful woman?”
“Sweet talk won’t get you anywhere.”
His eyes turned soft and he grabbed me, dragging my ass across the console and into his lap.
“I came to Aspara to check on the warehouse I have here and when we were done Pietro got a call from Carlo Noriega, remember him?”
“Yes, he works under you.”
“He, Yannis, and the guys came here for a drink and it turned into what you saw inside. I lost track of time. The reason you saw that woman in my arms is because I got teased for being the onlyDonthat got married without a bachelor party and they tipped her to play the stripper.”
“Right.”
“I drank, Grazia, but there’s no liquor hard enough to make me forget how stupidly in love I am with you.” He clasped my jaw in his hand forcing me to look straight into his endlessly green eyes. “Nothing could.”
“If I ever see another woman’s hands on you…” I spoke through my clenched teeth.
“You won’t. I don’t want anyone else. You’re the only one,Tesoro.”
“Good, because when you told me the truth about Dad, I made a vow to myself. I’d never live the life my mother did. I didn’t marry you to be a trophy you take out of the house only when it’s convenient for you. Either I’m your equal, or I’m nothing to you.”
