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The room fell silent.
Andrei finally said, “It would break my heart to put you in harm’s way, but women are as fierce if not more so than men. You have the heart of a lion—I would be proud to call you my sister for that sort of bravery and sacrifice.”
Phoenix pulled the knife away, and I stayed there in the ring, on my stomach, while they walked away.
When the door clicked shut, Katya was immediately by my side. “Does it hurt?”
I almost cracked a smile. “Everywhere.”
“Here?” She touched my back, my sides, my arms, legs. I loved her touch; I was also slightly delirious… I flipped over onto my back.
She frowned.
“Here.” I pointed to my mouth. “It hurts here.”
She ran her fingers across my lips.
I gripped her hand, then the other, and pulled her on top of me, her legs on either side. “Full mount.”
She moved against me. “I like this position.”
“Don’t get me killed.”
She leaned down and dragged her tongue up the side of my neck, licking my sweat and some blood. It made me so horny I wanted to cry in desperation.
Her mouth found my ear. “No promises, now keep teaching me; we have forty minutes until it’s time to eat.”
“I loathe you.”
“Please.”
It was thepleasethat did it for me.
“Fine, let’s get to work, but if I pass out, just leave me here to die.”
“Sounds good to me.”
“Heartless,” I muttered.
“Didn’t you say I had to be?”
I laughed and got to my feet. “Touché.”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“You don’t make up for your sins in church, you do it in the streets, you do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.” —Martin Scorsese
Katya
Weeks ago, had you asked me if blood was sexy, I would have puked and then screamed in rage or maybe just horror.
But tonight?
Seeing the cuts and scrapes on Santino’s fingertips while he grabbed his wine, or the way he winced from the movement because of two fractured ribs—or even the swollen bottom lip that seemed to tease me across the table.
It was sexy.
He was sexy.
