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“He thinks that I am,” I said, interrupting him. “Ashton thinks that I’m his victim, and it’s important to me that he finally sees that I’m not; that I’ve never been. Without that video, I would have killed him a long time ago, Aurelio. Or at the very least, I would have pressed charges against him that first time.”
His black eyes shined with renewed anger. “Do you have any idea what you’re asking of me?”
“Do you have any idea what you’re asking of me?” I shot back, though unfair. I could identify with Aurelio’s need for vengeance, but he’d never be able to identify with what I was feeling right now, or what I’d be feeling for the rest of my life, to tell the truth.
He stepped back as he ran his fingers through his dark hair, and I knew that I was going to have to betray him again to get my revenge on Ashton. There was no way in hell that a man like Aurelio Provenza was going to let me avenge myself. He wasn’t made that way, and I knew that. I knew what this conversation was costing him, and I also knew that if I pushed him into forcing him to let me go, it’d change him forever, and I didn’t want that. Aurelio was perfect just the way that he was, and I didn’t want to be responsible for damaging him in a way that he wouldn’t be able to come back from. After all, I knew that feeling better than most.
When he looked back down at me, he looked like he was going insane with this thing between us. “I can’t do it, Savina,” he said, always honest. “Ask me for anything else, and it’s yours. However, I can’t do this. I can’t let you-”
“Hey,” I said, stepping back towards him, protecting him again because I didn’t know how not to. “Let’s…let’s table this for right now.” He looked like he knew what I was doing, but he still didn’t stop me from lying to his face anyway. “Honestly, right now, my first priority is clothes.”
Aurelio’s dark eyes scanned the length of my body, his shirt feeling like silky lingerie all of a sudden, both of us very aware that I had nothing on underneath. Even though I knew that my clothes had been washed and dried already, I liked being wrapped in Aurelio’s familiar scent.
“How sore are you?” he asked, letting me manipulate him into putting our fight on hold.
“Very,” I admitted.
His hands reached for me, and I went to him willingly. It was the least that I could do, knowing that I was going to deceive him again the first chance that I got. The trick was going to be getting in and out before Aurelio could go after me. No matter what, I hadn’t forgotten where I lived, and I knew that Declan O’Brien wasn’t the kind of man to care about numbers. He’d let the Sartoris kill them all off before he’d allow someone else to invade his territory.
Aurelio slid his left hand in between my thighs, and my feet stepped apart to give him the access that he needed to perform his own brand of manipulation. When one finger entered my pussy, I winced because it couldn’t be helped. I really was sore, and it felt like every muscle in my body had been put to work last night. Granted, that wasn’t a complaint, but I was really feeling it today.
With his black eyes glowing down at me, he said, “I can kiss it and make it better, baby.”
“What about breakfast?” I asked, my body already betraying me as my arousal began to coat his finger.
“To hell with breakfast,” he growled, his voice low and raspy. “I can make a fresh breakfast when we’re done.”
“Aurelio…” I moaned as a second finger joined the first one.
“Let me eat your pussy, baby,” he offered, his other arm already wrapping around me before lifting me like I weighed nothing. “I want the taste of your cunt on my tongue for the rest of the day.”
When he placed me on the bed, I didn’t bother with any more protests. Without any shame, I let my legs drop open, showing him everything, and when he dropped to his knees at the edge of the bed, my hands automatically slid into his thick hair, my body already arching underneath that first swipe of his tongue.
“Oh, God…” I whimpered, letting Aurelio’s tongue take me back to paradise.
“This is what I want for breakfast every morning,” he said between those delicious strokes. “In fact, I want this as my appetizer before every fucking meal, baby.”
Tears began to sting the back of my eyes because I knew that this was temporary. He was going to hate me once he found me gone again, and there wasn’t anything that I could do to stop it from happening. While I loved Aurelio with all my heart and always had, if I didn’t face Ashton, then I was going to lose myself completely. I already had to live with the fact that I’d been too stupid to question the video, so letting Ashton go to his grave feeling like a winner was something that I couldn’t ever allow.
Chapter 25
Aurelio~
“I never should have married her.”
I glanced over at Elio, and it was hard to remember that he was Nero’s brother sometimes. He was just so damn self-involved, and I wondered if he was ever going to lose that particular characteristic. If he ever had to take over for Nero, we’d all be fucked. In fact, I’d follow Kasen into battle before I’d follow the spoiled brat that was currently spinning a screwdriver in his fingers.
“Can you focus?”
“What?” he huffed. “It’s not like he’s going anywhere.”
Last night, one of our soldiers, Mario Lanaro, found the motherfucker presently tied to a chair snooping around one of our docks, and when Nero had ordered an interview with him, I had decided to tag along because I still had a lot of anger that I needed to work out. Though Savina had let me take a lot of it out on her delectable body last night, it hadn’t been enough. I still wanted to kill Ashton Oliver, and I wanted to do it before Savina could. Regardless of what she believed, even to this day, I knew her better than anyone else on the planet, so I knew that she was planning something, only I didn’t know exactly what just yet.
At any rate, after having used her again earlier tonight, she’d made the mistake of asking me for some water, so I had added a little something to help her sleep, but to also keep her from sneaking out on me while I tended to business. While I understood Savina’s need for revenge, the last thing that I was going to do was risk her going to prison for killing Ashton Oliver when she’d done everything that she could to keep me from ending up there myself.
So, with anger still burning in my blood, it’d been a happy coincidence that Mario had stumbled upon this stupid fuckhead, giving me someone to take my rage out on until I could figure out how to get to Ashton. Even through my fury, I could still remember that Ashton lived in O’Brien territory.
“Why are you telling me this?” I asked as I sharpened the icepick that felt a little dull the last time that I’d used it.
