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Iwasobsessed.
My addiction will now forever haunt me.
“My ankle.” Her words are barely audible, her throat moving heavily to combat the thickness in her tone.
I shake myself from the moment and reluctantly turn away from the most exquisite face I’ll ever see.
“I should be able to walk.”
I press lightly against different parts of her foot, gauging her reactions. Her pain begins in her ankle and stretches through her cuboid bone. “You could, but it would be ill-advised. I’ll carry you.”
Sliding one arm under her knees, I move the other behind her back. I stand with little effort, and she stumbles over her words of objection.
“No way. Absolutely not. I’m way too heavy. I’ll walk. Or just head up to the estate. They’ll send someone down. Better yet, leave me here. They’ll have security footage, and someone will find me eventually.”
I ignore her.
She moves to argue again but bites her lip to stop herself, and I look at her once more before focusing on the path ahead.
“I should take you to the hospital.”
“Please, no. It’s a sprain. Grace will wrap it up, and I’ll be as right as rain.”
“I could wrap it for you.”
She stares at my profile as we move toward the estate where the hunt is held. “Are you a doctor or medical professional of sorts?”
“No,” I answer honestly.
“Then you’ll forgive me for declining your very generous offer. I’ll stick with the medical staff. You’re being kind enough by carrying me all the way to the building. I know I must be heavy.”
The estate entrance comes into view, and a woman dressed in a white lab coat stands at the threshold with a wheelchair beside her.
“You’re the right kind of heavy, and I’m not kind.”
“The right kind of heavy?”
I wait until we’re mere steps away from the woman obviously waiting for what I’m reluctant to give up in my arms before speaking. “The kind of heavy that tells me you’ll fuck me all the way up because the moment I convince you to sit on my face, and I can feel all of this all over me, I know I’ll drop to my knees to beg you for another taste when you discover I’m the man you should stay the fuck away from and you tell me no.”
A sharp intake of breath.
“Are you okay? Staff were deployed to retrieve you, but I see that was unnecessary.” The doctor looks me up and down as I place my treasure into the chair.
“Rest up,tesoruccio. I’ll see you in the forest.”
“Tesoruccio?” the other woman asks as I walk away.
“Treasure,” my prey answers, her voice telling me she’s watching me disappear back into the dark.
CHAPTERFOUR
ALESSIA
Ankle bandaged up, Grace busies herself with tidying her workstation. “Stay off the ankle tonight and take pain relief as required,” she says with her back to me. “But it’s important to start walking normally again as soon as possible to encourage ankle movement.”
She’s so much like her sister that sometimes my breath rushes from my lungs, and I have to concentrate on inhaling and exhaling not to feel as though I’m suffocating. I trained myself to stop crying in front of her years ago. It only caused her pain, and our family has served her enough of that. I save my tears forafterI see her. Like tonight, I’ll go home, drink an obscenely large glass of red wine, and sob for the friend and sister we both lost.
“Alessia?”
