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He lowered his lips to mine, and whispered, “Because you’re a Rossi.”
I closed my eyes, inhaling venom, exhaling hope. I felt like I was drowning even though I was standing in the middle of the foyer in the arms of the man I was going to marry.
I knew what I had to do just then to save him from hating me. I just wasn’t sure if, by the end of it, I would still be able not to loathe him.
Wolfe was not going to believe me, and it was too late and too convenient to tell him that I was a virgin now.
No. He had to learn that himself.
“Take me,” I whispered brokenly. “Sleep with me. Compromise me.”
I squeezed my eyes shut, feeling my pride leaving my body, evaporating like mist.
“Fuck Angelo out of me.”
He took a step back, and I could see the war raging inside of him.
Too proud to accept my offering, and too angry to turn it down.
“Please,” I clung to the collar of his shirt, rising on my toes and plastering my body against his.
His erection dug into my stomach and gave me false, stupid hope.
“I want you.”
“You want Angelo more.”
I shook my head fiercely, kissing his jaw, the corner of his lips, his Cupid’s Bow.
“You,” I breathed. “Just you.”
He squeezed his eyes shut, took a deep breath, and stepped away from me. I clung harder to the fabric of his shirt, clutching him in a vise grip.
“You’re turning me down? Really?” I whispered against his neck, feeling his Adam’s apple bob against my lips, his stubble, and his tight muscles.
Every inch of his body tried to fight it. Us.
“Get on your knees,” he rasped, “and beg for me to fuck you.”
I drew away from him, my eyes widening.
“What?”
“You fucked another man at our engagement party. The second time you have fucked him since we got engaged. I want you to kneel and beg for me to fuck him out of you. And I am afraid that there is no other way around it, Nemesis,” he said coldly, raising a thick, dark eyebrow, his jaw locked with rage.
I was speechless.
I cupped my mouth, stifling an agonized moan that had threatened to tear past my lips. His face remained indifferent, unaffected; I wondered how he could be so cruel to the woman he was going to promise his forever.
There was no going back from what I was about to do, if, indeed, I was to do it. I wanted to turn around and walk away. But I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that if I did that, we would be over.
He needed to know that I didn’t sleep with Angelo. And, after lying to him that I had, multiple times, there was only one way to prove my innocence.
The logic behind the idea was twisted, but so was Wolfe. Our whole relationship was crazy.
With an unsteady inhale, I began to lower myself to my knees in front of him. I pressed my eyes shut, determined not to see what was on his face as I stripped off my dignity for him.
Mama used to say that pride was the most exquisite jewelry a woman could wear even when you’re naked. But Wolfe had just ripped it from my neck, every pearl of confidence rolling on the floor.
