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As the carwe were travelling in sped through the dark, our route home only lit by the stars in the night sky, I took the opportunity to look down at my wife. She’d yawned all through our flight home. After we’d got into the awaiting car, I’d strapped her in, she’d curled up against me and finally fallen asleep with her head in my lap.
Inhaling deeply, a sense of peace had washed over me, and I knew I hadn’t felt this centred since I’d sent her back to England.
She was back where she belonged, and I was prepared to do whatever it took to make sure we were never apart again.
Unable to stop myself, I lowered my hand and ran my fingers through the thick, dark tresses that beautifully framed her face. Moving them to uncover her cheekbones and the shell of her ear, and understanding as I revealed the side of her face to my perusal that I needed to feel her turquoise eyes looking at me, it took all I had not to deliberately wake her just to feel her gaze on my skin.
But I was good at denying myself.
Later.
I planned on keeping her awake all night and most of tomorrow, too.
Slowly and gently, without disturbing her, I lifted the hair I had captured between my fingers and pressing my nose into the silken strands, I was taken back to a time that I’d never wanted to end. As the scent of oranges drifted into my subconscious, I relived another dark Calabrian night, where the sky had only been lit by the moon and stars that shone down on us. A night when, after I’d discarded my clothes on the beach and swum in the sea below us, we’d satisfied our need for each other on the large balcony outside our bedroom. As we’d held each other tightly, I’d run my fingers down her bare spine and I’d buried my face into the top of her head. I’d been smelling the same shampoo she always used while she’d somewhat shyly told me she was pregnant.
As her words had sunk in and I comprehended that “the devil”, as I was now called by our foes, was about to receive the greatest gift of a proper family, I knew I’d never felt happiness like it. As we’d rolled around, naked in each other’s arms that warm autumn evening, I’d placed my lips onto every single part of her body as I worshipped her. I’d gone from exhilaration at her news, to being in total awe of her accomplishment. Then, as the kisses I’d placed on her soft skin had made her giggle in my arms, lost in the moment I’d bent my head lower and spoke to our unborn child, telling him that he would never want in us both. Then I told him something I was unsure I’d ever be able to tell his mama out loud; I said the words I hadn’t uttered since I was four years old, and told him that I loved him.
Serafina had taken my head in her hands and then lifted me up to meet her gaze. Our eyes had remained transfixed on each other’s while she’d shifted position, until she’d rolled me over onto my back, slowly lowered herself on my cock and wordlessly rode us both to another orgasm.
I’d known then, wrapped up together, that the vendetta I’d sworn against her father, was nothing compared to the marriage vows I’d spoken to her.
She’d won, undoubtedly and unilaterally.
Even if I found the evidence needed to prove her father guilty of the kidnapping of my mama, Serafina wouldn’t be answerable to the sins of her father.
She had come into my life knowing I meant to destroy hers and had flipped the tables on me. Inside my head, I swore to protect her, even from me. As her orgasm had engulfed her, she’d fallen forward against me. I’d cradled her head, and as we came undone together, I had silently whispered the words to her too.
Swallowing deeply, I brought myself back to the here and now.
I had a lot to make up for.
Moving my arm, I leant my elbow on the car door and looking out into the night recognised precisely where we were. An idea took hold.
‘Aldo, take the next right.’
I met his eyes with my own in the rear-view mirror and nodded at him.
‘Yes, boss.’
The noise of the tyres suddenly changed as he took the directed right and moved away from the coast road and travelled inland. I knew that Bruno would follow our every movement in the car behind us. Within minutes, the road became harder to negotiate and loose gravel hit the underside of the car.
‘Where are we?’
I looked down to find Serafina awake and her turquoise eyes staring up at me inquisitively.
‘We have somewhere we need to be.’
‘I thought we were going home,’ she whispered.
‘All in good time… first, I have something I want us to do, together.’
Again, the sound under the wheels changed as we reached the cobbles outside the church we’d been married in, and the car came to a standstill.
‘Aldo, wake up the priest.’
‘Boss,’ came the instant reply.
I waited with Serafina until I saw the priest leave the house he kept next to his church. He was still pulling his white robe down over his fat little body as he made his way over to where Aldo had parked the car. As I caught the looks he was giving Aldo, I could see he wasn’t happy at having his evening interrupted.
