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“Lady? I mean, it could be a wife, a daughter, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a granddaughter. Is female better?”
“What about girlfriend?”
“In this world, we know what girlfriend means. It’s a wife waiting to happen. None of us in any of the families have had serious girlfriends after college except for Bogdan and Niko. Niko stopped within a year or so of graduating college. Bogdan lasted the longest before he abandoned trying until he met Christina. I’m certain none of them knew who or what he was. At least, not without guessing. It’s too dangerous to bring just anyone into our lives, into our families.”
The story about Sylvia’s sister is heartbreaking and terrifying at the same time. Could that happen to me? Not only would I die, but so would our child. Not mine. Our. With Enzo and only Enzo. That’s easier to wrap my head around than it should be.
“Maks has to be away for business a lot. Do you?”
He hesitates before he nods.
“Sometimes he’s gone for travel, Chellie. Just like me. But sometimes he’s still in New York, just like I will be. Each family has a place where we can control the environment and everything that happens there.”
I suck in a breath so deep that I feel my chest expand. I doubt he means an office where they negotiate big deals.
“I know you can guess what I mean. Never look for it, Michelle. Swear to me. Never.”
“I swear. That’s the second time you’ve used my full name. I don’t like it. I know how serious you’re being.”
“I just want to make sure—”
“You’re not a Daddy Dom, and I’m not a little. I don’t need a stern talk from a parent. I’m thirty-one and able to understand the gravity of this,Lorenzo. It feels distant when what I need right now is to feel closer to you than I ever have. This is scary as fuck shit. I don’t want to feel like you’re pushing me away when I already feel adrift. Don’t do that.”
“Shh,piccolina.”
He pulls me as close as he can. He cups my cheeks and kisses me, and I melt against him. I shift restlessly, wishing I could be closer to him. When I pull back, we stare at each other for a moment before he reaches between us and unfastens his belt. I unfasten his pants and pull down his zipper.
“Condom?”
He asks, and I shake my head.
“I know I’m clean, and you must be if you go to a club. I’m on the pill.”
I push down his boxer briefs before I guide his cock into me.
“Daddy.”
“Piccolina.”
We speak at the same time. This isn’t about sex. About getting off. This is about being as close together as we can be. I pull his shirt over my head, and we press our bodies together, skin-to-skin.
“I didn’t mean to push you away, Chellie. Just the opposite. I never want to let you go.”
“I know that. That’s why you’re telling me everything. But it just feels so wrong when you call me Michelle. At least it does when we’re like this. I don’t think you liked it when I called you Lorenzo, but I think I also made my point.”
“I’ve thrown a massive amount of shit at you, and you haven’t run. You aren’t calling the feds. We’re physically as close as we can get.”
“It’s still a lot to take in and digest. I don’t know how I’m going to feel about this in the morning or the days to come. Regardless, I’m not going anywhere. Enzo, I have no idea what the hell that movie in the theatre was about. My mind was on you the entire two hours. I compared you to Maks and the other men in his family. I compared myself to Laura. I thought about how our situations could be alike. I thought about the man I suspected you are. The man you could be with me, and the man you have to be when you aren’t. I guessed some of the stuff you told me. A lot was news to me. I knew before I walked out of that theater that I wanted you for more than a good fuck. Something about you is a magnet to me. You’re the hottest man I’ve ever seen, but you’re way more than your looks. Those will change over time just like mine will. That’s not why I’m here.”
“I am considered the pretty one in the family.”
I grin.
“So, I’ve heard. But that’s Pasha in the Kutsenko family.”
I wrap my legs around his hips, letting my ankles rest on the bed behind him.
“Daddy, where do we go from here since I’m all in?”
