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“Well, that’s the price. You can end this today. Or you can keep doing your little gangster thing and not getting what you want.”
Silence. When Alessandro speaks again, his voice is cold. “I accept your price. But I have a price of my own.”
“Yes?”
“The marriage is still on,” he grunts.
“Fuck that.”
“Then no deal.”
My heart starts to beat faster. “You can’t be serious.”
“You said you would support me taking over the Gagliardi family. Youwillsupport me. As my wife. There’s no other way your father’s captains will take orders from an outsider.”
Somehow, I already imagined him insisting on this. And for some fucked up reason, it brings me a thrill almost as much as it brings me dread.
This manwantsme. Badly.
My stupid brain flashes to that morning in the hotel room, when I basically begged him to fuck me. He’s seen me naked, needy,desperate, and all he wants is more.
Not just that. He took a special pleasure in dominating me, in being the one in control while I had no choice but to submit. And when I submitted to him, he looked at me with so much need in his eyes that it makes me shiver to think about.
Even right now.
I clench my hips, knowing that I’ve already made up my mind.
It still feels like a deal with the devil.
At least the devil will be more powerful than my father.
“Okay,” I say softly.
I can hear the satisfaction in his voice. “Okay, what?”
“Okay, I’ll marry you.”
“When you become my wife, Ava, Iownyou. Do you understand that?”
Butterflies dance in my stomach. The thought of beingownedby this man…
The house creaks, and I startle. I freeze, afraid of being overheard.
“Ava?” Alessandro’s expectant voice crackles through the phone.
“I understand.”
“Say it.”
My heart is beating so fast, it’s all I can do to get the words out. “When I become your wife, you own me.”
A sound comes through the speaker that I’m pretty sure is a growl. “Good girl. Send me the address.”
He hangs up the phone.
Chapter Seventeen
Ava
