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"Does it feel like a weight has been lifted?" I asked as I kissed Aiden’s cheek.
Aiden shook his head. "But I'm ready."
Aiden's eyes were sad when he looked at me. He reached for my hand and pressed his lips to my knuckles. "Dance with me?"
He led me onto the dance floor, where we moved to the slow, romantic song. His hands tightened around my waist and his lips pressed against mine. Aiden led intentionally, every move of his perfectly sculpted body sexy.
"I should've known you'd be dominant on the dance floor," I teased him.
"And everywhere else." His hand dipped just below the curve of my back, just for a second. After all, this was no time for his more debauched moves.
But I didn't mind being reminded of them.
I loved these moments. I loved the way he kissed me, and the feel of his cock pressed against my hip. I loved the way he laughed when I teased him, and the way he pounded his cock into me, the way he growled when he took me hard enough for his balls to slap my pussy. I loved the way he ate me out like I was the most delicious feast and the salty taste of him on my tongue. I loved the way he dominated me and let me surrender control, falling into trust for the first time.
I loved the way his hands felt on my body.
But beyond that… I loved the quiet intensity he brought to every task. I loved the way he looked after the men he loved like brothers. I loved his generosity and the way he cooked for us, revealing a caring side that he didn’t show the outside world. I loved that, despite his checkered past, I was sure he’d be both a good father and a good man.
I loved everything about him.
And I had no idea what I was going to do about it.
CHAPTER34
Selena
The day after my wedding,I set off to murder Gavin Crude.
Aiden had replaced almost every electronic in his house with the intention of keeping me captive. That made it easy to steal his keys and let myself out of his house, going through lock after lock.
I didn't want to steal from him, though. Instead of taking his car, I went down the road, feeling a prickle along my skin because I figured Aiden might be watched by rival families and they would see me as an easy target.
Fools. But it would be an inconvenience.
There were no pay phones anymore, but as soon as I got out of the house and away from the wifi blockers, I could use my mother's old cell phone to call Man.
"I need help," I said.
"What?" he asked, not sounding concerned about how I'd vanished. I'd filled him in that I would be out of touch a while.
I gave him a shopping list, then hung up.
I walked to make sure I wasn't being tailed, then opened my mother's phone and began to scroll through the photos she'd taken of me--and the selfies she'd taken of us together--all from before I was five years old
I found the picture of my mother holding me as a baby, and I traced her face with my finger. She had been so beautiful, with her long black hair and almond brown eyes.
I wondered if she would be proud of me for what I was about to do to Gavin. Or if she would be sad. I wouldn’t want my baby to grow up to be a Belladonna.
The realization of that shocked me. This was the only life I’d ever known. It was good enough… wasn’t it?
I shoved the phone into my pocket and stepped into the shadows, waiting for Man's friend to arrive. He pulled up in a beat-up old car, and I got into the passenger seat.
"Got everything you asked for," he said, passing me a bag. Inside were a set of lock picks, a silenced pistol, a cell phone, and a knife.
"Thanks," I said, tucking the weapons into my waistband. "I need you to wait for me."
"Sure thing," he said, not asking any questions. Man's contacts were always there when I needed him.
