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“I thought I’d say goodbye to you in my own way.” That didn’t sound good. His way was fucking random men and then someone would find them dead.
“Dante isn’t going to like it if you do something to me,” I warned.
Fuck, I’m not going to like it. In fact, it won’t end well if Nico makes a move on me. Not because of Dante, but because I won’t let him. I’d indulged him before when I didn’t know who I was dealing with, but since I’d found out the type of man he was and a killer at that, I knew one day it would come to this, and I knew I was ready to deal with him.
“Look, Nico, if you come any closer to me I might have to hurt you.”
He laughed and then he laughed louder. “What are you going to hurt me with? You have no weapons.” He took a step closer, and I stepped back holding on to the towel I’d covered my nakedness with. “All I want to do is have a taste of you,” he said, sliding his tongue across his mouth. You know what I like. Just give it to me, and there won’t be any problems.”
“I can’t do that, you freak. I belong to Dante.”
“What do you think Dante is going to be doing in the casino? He’s going to fuck every cocktail waitress he can find, to prove to himself that he’s not gay. I went through that myself so I know what he’ll do. Why do you think I sent him there?”
“I thought you sent him to take over for you while you’re on your honeymoon?”
“I did, but I can’t let him be with you. It’s good for one of us to be gay, but not both of us, and now we have two families we’re trying to navigate.”
“Why are you telling me this? Don’t you know I’m going to tell Dante?”
“I wish you wouldn’t, but a young man like yourself never shuts up even if it’s in his interests. I don’t know what it is about your generation where you want to tell everything. I had a boy I was crazy about, but he wouldn’t stop talking about his affair with me. He even went on social media and plastered pictures there. I took him to Europe and he had pictures of us together and I’m sure there are pictures of us fucking somewhere. I just learned that they will be there forever.”
The question I needed to ask myself was why was he telling me that? He didn’t intend on me getting out of that room. Then I remembered the story Dante told me about his cat. The cat was fighting for his life and that was why he made it out of the room. Just like the closed door and the cat, Nico had closed the door on me.
“If you come close to me, I’m going to fuck you up.”
“You and who, boy?”
“Just me. I won’t kill you, I’ll just make you wish you were dead.” More laughter and he moved closer, and this time I didn’t move. His eyes wandered across my body.
“I didn’t know you had a body like that. You must have been lifting weights in the time you disappeared from here and when Dante and my men found you. I’m going to enjoy taking what I want from you.”
“You and who else is going to make me lie down and stay still for that?”
“Just me,” he said.
“It’s going to take more than you,” I said, sizing him up and remembering all the lessons I’d learned from my self-defense classes. I never thought I’d need any when my mother took her money after asking my father for help to pay for them.
My father as usual wasn’t interested in contributing another dime to me, and especially if he thought someone would beat me up. My mother had argued that I was gay and I could get hurt by someone whom I’d met. She was right, but it was the broken hearts that had done the most damage to my body, not the abuse of a man’s body on mine.
“Well, what are you waiting for?” I questioned. He stared me down and maybe it was something in my voice. The assurance that wasn’t there a year ago. Maybe I was older and he was a man in his late forties that gave him pause, or maybe it was the idea of dealing with Dante when he thought he’d need him, but whatever it was Nico backed off.
“This isn’t over, Romeo. Not by a long shot.” All I could think about when he backed out of the room and opened the door with his hand behind his back was relief, and he sounded like my father when he couldn’t have his way. With my father it might not have been a deliberate threat, but more like something to say because he didn’t know what else to say to me when I became a man.
But with Nico... It was a direct threat, and I’d better watch my ass, so to speak.
When Nico closed the door, I exhaled and I rushed to lock the unlocked door. I knew if he wanted to get in he could. I leaned against the door when I heard voices.
“What were you doing in there?”
“Just saying goodbye to Romeo and welcoming him to the family. We’re going to be late, do you have everything? Where we’re going first it’s going to be cold. I know how you like to frolic on the beach, but that’ll be later. I don’t want you sick so cover up your beautiful ass.”
I didn’t think Nico had any warmth in him to be concerned about anyone but himself, but it appeared he did.
Maybe there was some good in him, but you would have to look deep to find it, and there wasn’t enough time in the world.
Chapter 16
Romeo
