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“Yes, but I want you to kiss me.” Without hesitation he lifted me to my feet and planted a soft kiss on my lips and held me tight.
Once again he repeated his question. “If it’s okay with you, baby, can I get dressed, because the car is waiting for me?”
“When will you be home?”
“I have to stay overnight, but I’ll make arrangements for you to come to the hotel, and we can have dinner there and that’s a promise. I’ll send the car for you on Valentine’s Day.” He had me there because never had anyone wanted me with them on that day as far as I could remember.
“You’re not telling me that to get rid of me, are you?”
I knew my words sounded needy. Yeah, I’d been needy all my life, especially since I thought my first real love was mine, but I learned he had a wife and would leave me to go back to her. I had to find out from a stranger that he was no longer in the town, and he would never be back. I had a chance to start all over again, but this time I didn’t think it was possible after what I’d been through with Dante.
We had a bond that few men had together, and now we were fated mates. However, I didn’t want to start over, and that was why I would do whatever was necessary to keep Dante and get rid of Nico from our lives.
After Dante had cleaned up, and I’d done the same, I walked out to see Dante standing before me looking well and exquisite in a dark-blue silk suit with a dark maroon and white spotted Italian tie on his white shirt. He took my breath away.
“You look handsome,” and I scurried over to him to give him a kiss.
“Don’t start this again, Rome. I don’t have the energy.” He knew the right thing to say to me for me to back off and I did.
When he strolled out the door, he smiled, and said, “I love you. Don’t ever let anyone tell you I don’t.” And he was gone. My mind had always got me in trouble wondering and feeling sorry for myself, but I refused now to doubt and question what Dante had said to me. But who would tell me that he didn’t love me? I wondered.
Falling across the bed it was time to get some rest and hope Nico would leave without fanfare or fucking with me on his way out the door.
Then I remembered I hadn’t called up my mother to check on her and my father. Boys are like that. We don’t remember our parents unless we need them for something. I guess it’s being young.
“Mother. How are you?”
“I guess I’ll make it,” she said.
“What about father?”
“He’s home now. He wasn’t the best patient, and I think they sent him home to get him out of their hair. After the hospital, they placed him in a rehab place to get him well enough where he could walk and it wouldn’t be too hard on me.”
“I have time where I can go home and help you.”
“No. I can handle your father because we have a male nurse who comes in twice a week. You know how your father is, and the way you two parted and how you get into it with him each time you come home. It’s easier for me if you don’t. You understand, sweetheart, don’t you?”
Yes, I understood. “If you need me, call me, Mom, and I’ll be there for you.”
“I know you will.”
I hit the button and that was the end of my call. My mom had done me a favor by not asking that I come home. I had too much to think about and it was time to get some sleep and dream about Dante.
Just as I had slipped off holding on to my pillow, I heard a knock. Maybe I’m dreaming, I thought and I wanted to see where it would take me. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder and I leaped from the bed.
Chapter 15
Romeo
I’d fallen into the bed naked and standing in front of me—Nico. “Where is Dante?”
“He should be somewhere between here and Atlantic City.” Then I noticed he’d picked up my phone and had it in his hand.
“That’s mine. And what are you doing in this room? It’s Dante’s room.”
“Everything here belongs to me. Even your cute ass.” I backed up and reached for a towel because there was never anything so weak as a man standing before another man who was wearing clothing and you were not that was unless you were planning on fucking or giving someone a blow job. I wasn’t planning on getting fucked, and there was no way I’d allow Nico to touch me.
“Then, why are you here?”
