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“Rafael?” she whispers.
“Yeah, baby?”
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” I trail my fingers over her side.
“You’re a bad liar.” She turns her face and kisses my chest. Fuck, she’s so sweet, so pure and innocent. I can’t allow her to be dragged into this shit. She’s suffered enough.
“Let’s not talk about it.” I roll on top of her, and she blinks up at me with eyes so utterly trusting. I brush my lips over hers, and a small sigh escapes her.
“Did you talk to Nero?”
“Uh huh.” I kiss her harder until all she can think of, all she can feel, is me. Her fingers rake through my hair, her body bowing beneath me. She’s so supple, so pliant under my hold. But only for me. She’s mine, and she’ll never belong to anyone else.
She slides her hand over my mouth, a smirk dancing over lips as she pushes me back an inch. “What did he say?”
I groan and roll onto my back. “He’s flying down here tomorrow. They’re using the villa. Nicholai will probably attack in the next few days.”
She sits up, sweeping her hair away from her face. “Here? In days?”
“I’m sending you away,” I say, fixing my gaze on the ceiling.
“What?”
“I’m sending you to the mansion with a guard detail.”
She swings a leg over my hips, climbing on top of me. Her fingers grip my jaw, forcing me to look at her. A frown pulls at her features, but I can see the panic in her eyes. She’s scared.
“I don’t want to go to the mansion.”
“Avecita, I can’t have you near Nicholai. If this goes wrong…”
“What? What happens if this goes wrong, Rafael?”
I inhale a deep breath. “We all die,” I whisper.
She closes her eyes, her hair falling over her face like a curtain. I stroke it back behind her ear, trailing my fingers over the soft skin of her cheek as I do. “You’ll never be safe as long as he lives. Your sister, her son—”
“I don’t care about them,” she cuts me off.
“You don’t mean that. Even if you can’t bring yourself to feel for Una right now, you wouldn’t want anything to happen to her child. And I can’t let anything happen to the cartel.”
Her hand tenses on my chest, nails digging into my skin. “Let’s just run. You and me. We can leave this.”
I cup her cheek. “The cartel is my family. I’m their leader. I won’t leave them like this. It was me who brought this danger down on them. They never should have been involved in any kind of fight with the Russians.”
“But you are—because of me.”
“No. We’re here because of decisions I made.” I pull her gaze to mine. “Decisions I do not regret for a second.”
“You should have left me there,” she whispers.
“If I could think rationally when it comes to you, maybe I would have. If there were even a choice, maybe I would have made a different one.” She nods solemnly. “But I can’t be rational when it comes to you. There’s never a choice.”
She places her trembling hand on my cheek. “I can’t leave you. So don’t ask me to.”
“I won’t put you in danger.”
