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He chuckled and held out his hand. That's when I noticed some paint on the edges of his fingers, along the edge of his palm. "Come with me. Let me show you what I was doing as a surprise for you."
"For me?" Flattered, I didn't know if their intentions would ever end, but I needed him to keep going. I needed him to make me feel like this could be my forever with them. That their love wouldn't magically dry up.
"And only you."
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Tony
Her nervous behavior put me on edge because I needed her to love what I'd been working on in my spare time. It took me countless hours and staying up way too late, but I managed to get it done after putting the finishing touches on in the last few hours. With her being preoccupied, I had time to do what I needed for her to understand my level of commitment.
Guiding her down the hall, I always loved the light flush she gained when the spotlight pointed at her with us. We'd known each other for two months now, so I had to remind her of that. She needed her memory jogged of where she and I began. That's where I knew my words would guide her thoughts. "When you mentioned you couldn't live without Kasey and Whiskers, they were easy enough to bring over."
Speaking of her cat, he kept trying to join my painting sessions, seeking more attention than normal. He'd gotten his paws in the paint a few times, and I had to waste time bathing him. Instead of inflicting that kind of suffering on someone else, I manned up and did it. Whiskers hated baths, and his one eye told me so before his claws dug into my flesh each time.
"What does that mean?" she asked right outside the door to the room that shared another door with the library.
Biting back a painful grin, I couldn't help how my insides bubbled in excitement. "There was something you said you couldn't live without, but I couldn't bring it with us, either."
Her brows furled. Opening the door, I kept the lights off for a better affect. Leading her into the room, she closed her eyes naturally like she knew I planned to ask her to. Setting her in the center of the smaller area with a tall wall, I turned on the light for her to see what I'd been working on.
"Open your eyes, Emilia." So much emotion choked me, and I did didn't even know if she'd like it yet.
From behind, I saw her body move in sheer surprise right before her hands covered her gasp. Before her, I painted a mural of the spot on the river she sat in front of. I even managed to add the same bench to sit in front of the wall. Removing the remote from my pocket, I also knew she needed to hear what the surround sound played.
A few birds squawked with the blowing breeze over the waterfront. The morning sounds of this exact location I recorded for this very moment. Her head turned to flip and see me in the back of the room. "My spot."
"Your spot," I confirmed. "Sorry it took me so long to finish, but I wanted you to have it before Draven and I have to leave."
She walked toward the wall, knowing better than to touch it because I had told her I'd been working on it recently. "So long? Antonio, I've only been here a week. Did you paint this when we got back?"
"I had a staff member prime the wall for me, but yes, Emilia. I painted this for you." Stepping right up beside her, I tucked my hands into my pockets and enjoyed the view with the familiar sound. "I haven't touched a paintbrush in years, but you inspired me once again. You inspire me to be who I wanted to be as a younger boy."
"And I support you becoming who you were meant to be." Leaning her head against the side of my arm, she settled herself next to me and closed her teary eyes. "This gift..."
"Is how I feel with you choosing to stay," I whispered to her, removing my hand from the pocket to hold her to me, kissing the top of her head. "Would you like to sit down with me for a bit?"
"Please." She let me guide her to the spot just as I turned on a moving light. It made the leaves look like they were blowing with how the shadows of the effects moved over the image.
Today, Emilia learned her importance. She now knew we were all in, and she had her mother to call on when she second-guessed herself.
forty-two
Millie
Reading my book, I got to the smutty part that excited me even more. My heart rate kicked up the second I read about how he grabbed his woman to manhandle her into an orgasm. Of course, my mind reeled with thoughts of Draven and Tony, but we hadn’t been physically intimate like this. They’d been giving me my space since kidnapping me, but I was learning Kasey’s words were right. I shouldn’t care how I got here because they took me to their lavish kingdom in a new country. They treated me like royalty, and they made their interest in me known, waiting for me to approve it or not.
Oh, the hard choices in life. Go back to my mundane life, living with a man who wanted a mother closer to his age, or be ravished like a goddess by the two dominating me now. Would they keep being dominant, though? What if they were like Tim down the road when they tired of me?
A shiver ran down my spine in disgust, hating how I settled so much for a loser. Seeing him run out of our apartment when Costas came to collect me, made me realize he would never put me first. He never cared about me other than living off me as a worthless freeloader.
Just then, a hand came over the high back of my embroidered chair at the dining table and snatched the book from my hands. Gasping I uncurled to sit upright, seeing Draven hold it open on the same page I had just gotten excited to read. Beginning to read a few lines, I worried. “What work of fiction is this delight?”
“Draven!” I hurried to my feet in order to claim my book back. His devilish smirk begged for me to try and steal it from his heftier grasp. Pausing to calm myself, I opened my hand for him to return it to. “Can I please have my book back?”
“Hold on, Sunshine. I’ve just gotten to the part where she’s never been stretched by a cock like his before. Oh, but he only gave her a taste to use his gun inside of her to tease her longer…”
“What?” Tony picked then to walk into the room.
